Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Poetry Subgenres
Plot
Figurative Language
100
a type of poem that is written to remember or pay tribute to someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
100
another term for the perspective of the story.
What is point of view?
100
a type of poem that is written to remember or pay tribute to someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
100
the turning point of the story, after which everything changes.
What is the climax?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
an intentional pause in the middle of a line, sometimes short (indicated by a comma) or long (indicated by a dash, semi-colon or period).
What is a caesura?
200
when the person telling the story is also a character in the story.
What is first-person narration?
200
Similar to an elegy, but with a downbeat tone.
What is a dirge?
200
the actions in a story leading to the turning point.
What is the rising action?
200
exaggeration for effect; "over-the-top" statements not meant to be taken seriously.
What is hyperbole?
300
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word.
What is alliteration?
300
a reference to something outside of the text. May be historical, biblical or cultural.
What is allusion?
300
has 14 lines; may be Shakespearean or Petrarchan.
What is a sonnet?
300
the point at which the exposition ends and the action of the story begins.
What is the inciting incident?
300
the presentation of something as being smaller, less effective, or less important than it actually is.
What is understatement?
400
A literary term where the sound of a word is related to its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
when the situation known to the audience is different from what a character expects or foresees.
What is dramatic irony?
400
a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. It includes two refrains and two repeating rhymes.
What is a villanelle?
400
a situation in a narrative where the narrative shifts to events of the past.
What is a flashback?
400
something that is itself and also represents an idea, concept or emotion.
What is a symbol?
500
a type of poetry that lacks any formal structure; rhythm is created through the use of sound devices.
What is free verse?
500
a statement that apparently contradicts itself, but still might be true.
What is a paradox?
500
a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi.
What is a sestina?
500
the moment when the conflict appears ready to be resolved.
What is the denouement?
500
a mild word or phrase that substitutes for one that would be undesirable or inappropriate because it is too direct, unpleasant or offensive.
What is a euphemism?
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