Words Starting with "R"
Words starting with "S"
Words Starting with "S" 2.0
Words starting with "P"
Randoms
100
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is Rhyme
100
a quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what may happen.
What is Suspense
100
stereotypical person whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition
What is Stock Character
100
the main events of a play, novel,etc.
What is Plot
100
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
What is Understatement
200
part of a story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out.
What is Resolution
200
the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud.
What is Speaker
200
a plot twist occurring near or at the conclusion of a story
What is Surprise ending
200
the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
What is Protagonist
200
branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual
What is Tragedy
300
a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.
What is Rhetorical Question
300
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
What is Stanza
300
a literary device in which one character within a narrative narrates.
What is Story within a story
300
the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic.
What is Purpose
300
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is oxymoron
400
literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables
What is Rhythm
400
a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor
What is Satire
400
any function of a number of random variables, usually identically distributed, that may be used to estimate a population parameter
What is Statistical evidence
400
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is Paradox
400
a poem or stanza of eight lines
What is octave
500
a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
What is Refrain
500
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
What is Sonnet
500
relating to or denoting a case of nouns and pronouns used for the subject of a sentence.
What is Subjective
500
a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow.
What is Pathos
500
a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life
What is Pastoral
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