Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Syntax
Style
Figurative Language
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100
the main idea or most important point in a sentence. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is climax?
100
a statement that appears to contradict itself; similar to an oxymoron, but usually found in a phrase.
What is paradox?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought.
What is a couplet?
200
a conversation between two or more characters
What is dialogue?
200
repetition of consonant sounds in closely associated words.
What is alliteration?
200
a comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
200
giving hints or clues within the text of what's going to occur later on
What is foreshadowing?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
a play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense of the sound of different words.
What is pun?
300
atmosphere created by a writer's diction (choice of words) and use of details.
What is mood?
300
the attitude the speaker takes toward the topic, an elusive quality, which allows play on the gap between what is said and what is meant.
What is tone?
300
a character who, through contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character
What is foil?
400
a long speech made by a character who is alone, who reveals private thoughts and feelings to the reader or audience.
What is a soliloquy?
400
the ideas or impulses that influence a character to act in a particular way.
What is an motive?
400
word choice for specific effect
What is diction?
400
a central idea or message in a literary work. Whereas plot is about the work's sequence of specific events or actions, themes are more about meaning.
What is theme?
400
a long speech made by a character who is alone, who reveals private thoughts and feelings to the reader or audience
what is a Soliloquy?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
500
a term that allows readers to discuss perspective of a literary work's narrator, usually in first person or third person.
What is point of view?
500
the use of words on which the pronunciation mimics the meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
reference to a mythical or historical figure.
What is allusion?
500
something that interrupts the chronological flow of a work. In a play, it can be conversation, episode, or event that happened before the main action. In fiction, it can refer to a narrator's memory of something that happened long ago, or readers can read about events that had taken place earlier.
What is flashback?
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