Vocab
Lit Devices
Knock Knock
Grammar
Poetry
100

Defer

To put off, delay, or choose to do at another time. 

100

The attribution of human characteristics onto non-human entities.

Personification

100

Author of "An Inspector Calls"

J.B. Priestley

100
A person, place, or thing

Noun

100

A group of poetic lines

Stanza
200

To make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage

Exploit

200

Nature or weather reflecting or mirroring human emotions. 

Pathetic Fallacy

200

Inspector's Name

Inspector Goole

200

An action word

Verb

200
Lines that end in the same or similar sounds.

Rhyme

300

Apathy

Having or showing little or no interest, concern, or emotion. 

300

A comparison using the word like or as. 

Simile

300

"An Inspector Calls" Setting

1912 - The Birling's House in Brumley

300

A describing word

Adjective

300

A pause in the middle of a poetic line.

Caesura 

400

Destitute of (lacking) knowledge or intelligence. 

Ignorance

400

A direct comparison that does not use the word like or as. 

Metaphor

400

"An Inspector Calls" written date.

1945

400

A word which tells us how an action is done. 

Adverb

400

An ordered pattern of rhymes

Rhyme scheme

500

Stigma

A set of negative and unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something

500

A brief reference to a person, place, event, or literary work

Allusion

500

Eva Smith monikers

Daisy Renton, Eva Birling

500

A word that simplifies a noun.

Pronoun

500

The patterned rhythm of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line. 

Meter

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