POETRY
LIT TERMS
CATCHER
ROMEO
POTPOURRI
100

Same sound - first letter of successive words (Pretty picky)

Alliteration

100

Literary Feature for EXAGGERATION (I had to walk a million miles!)

Hyperbole

100

Characters that highlight the differences in the others, sometimes they are sidekicks and even friends.

Foils

100

Romeo's first love

Rosaline

100

The first sentence of a body paragraph that maps back to your thesis

Topic sentence
200

The construction of a sentence - can be inverted, flipped, especially for rhyme or rhythm

syntax

200

Understatement ("I guess it's not too bad")

Litotes

200

Punctuation in a poem that marks a pause

Caesura

200
The character who talks the most annoying nonsense and who uses malopropisms (the wrong word for things)

The nurse

200

Your body paragraph needs to have at least two quotations. But each quotation must be followed by ______________________.

Analysis

300

ten beats per line in a poem, unstressed then stressed syllables (duh DA duh DA...)

iambic pentameter

300

When the audience or reader knows more than the characters do

Dramatic Irony

300

The constant mention of ducks are a ____ in the work, representing what Holden worries about protecting.

Motif

300

Mantua

Where Romeo is banished

300

Before a quotation, you need to include context. Tell me two pieces of information that the reader needs to know before you provide your quotation/evidence.

WHAT PART OF THE BOOK IS THIS FROM?

WHO THE PERSON IS SPEAKING TO

WHAT SCENE/SCENARIO IS GOING ON

400

One of the most important parts of the poem to look at to understand the meaning

The TITLE!

400

The CONNECTIVE should be somewhere in your introduction. It includes (2 things)

Title and author of the work

400
He's "yearbook handsome" 


Stradlater

400

Stars represent...

Fate

400

Nolan's birthday is in this month

November

500

The opposite of prose

verse

500

You format your title when writing it out by:

Underlining it

500

Holden has mixed emotions towards many people; he disparages them, insults them, and then, he also hangs out with them, and even misses them. A word for this is: _______________

Ambivalent 

500

Why is the moon not sufficient to describe their love?

It's inconstant / it changes too much. Their love is constant

500

Mrs. Barrell's birthday is in _____

April

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