POV/Narration
A narrator that lacks credibility due to bias, lack of sanity, etc.
What is an Unreliable Narrator?
A poem with 14 lines, each containing 10 syllables, and overall has a define rhyme.
What is a Sonnet?
A figure of speech in which something is exaggerated to place emphasis upon.
What is Hyperbole?
An element that disrupts the current linear structure in order to give more context by referencing an event that has happened in the past.
What is a Flashback?
A real object that represents a more abstract meaning.
What is Symbolism?
A type of narration in which the story is told in 3rd person but from one person's point of view.
What is 3rd Person Limited POV?
A phrase, sound, or clause that is continuously repeated throughout the poem; used to place emphasis.
What is a Refrain?
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is Denotation?
An element that provides the reader clues to events that will occur in the future.
What is Foreshadowing?
A line that is contradictory to itself.
What is a Paradox?
A type of narration perspective in which the audience, the reader, is directly addressed to by the author.
What is 2nd Person POV?
The rhythm of a poem, based on the syllables of words.
The feeling and emotion a word gives within the context of the text; the implied meaning.
What is Connotation?
The intentional close placement of two different ideas in order to add further emphasis on their differences.
What is Juxtaposition?
The universal idea and insight a literary work imparts upon the reader.
What is a Thematic Statement?
The tempo of the plot in which information is revealed; is set by the author.
What is Narrative Pace?
Words within the same line or at the end of nearby lines that almost rhyme.
What is a Slant Rhyme? (Near/Oblique Rhyme)
Commonly used phrases with a figurative meaning very different from its literal.
What is an Idiom?
A change from a former idea, way of thought, and value within a character that reveals an important lesson/insight.
What is a Shift?
The noun a pronoun is referring to.
What is an Antecedent?
The viewpoint of the narrator perceiving and telling the main idea and details of the story (ex: character, setting, events, background, etc.)
What is Narrative Perspective?
A pattern found in the rhythm of emphasized and less emphasized sounds making up 10 syllables per line.
What is a Lambic Pentameter?
A figure of speech that uses plays on words to signify different meanings using similar sounding words or words with multiple meanings.
What is a Pun?
A technique in narration where the thoughts, emotions, and sensations of the character are thrown at the reader rapidly and continuously, ignoring the previous flow and any sense of structure.
What is Stream of Consciousness?
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