repetition of initial sounds in a series of words, e.g.:
Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
What is alliteration?
100
figurative speech that depends on intentional overstatement or exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
100
concise form of comparison equating two things that may seem at first dissimilar WITHOUT using "like" or as?
What is metaphor?
100
a Japanese poem in three lines, of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, which represents a clear picture so as to at once to arouse emotion and suggest spiritual insight
What is haiku?
100
an object or idea standing for something else.
What is symbolism?
200
repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words
What is assonance?
200
type of poem perfected by Robert Browning that consists of single speaker talking to one or more unseen listeners and often revealing more about the speaker than he or she seems to intend.
What is dramatic monologue?
200
words and phrases that describe the concrete experience of the five senses
What is imagery?
200
phrase combining two seemingly incompatible elements ("darkness visible").
What is oxymoron?
200
the difficulty or issue faced by the protagonist
What is conflict?
300
word whose sound resembles what it describes (snap, crackle, pop).
What is onomatopoeia?
300
reference, often to literature, history, mythology, or the Bible, that is unacknowledged in the text but that the author expects the reader to recognize
What is allusion?
300
line of poetry that has a full pause at the end
What is an end-stopped line?
300
lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter in no particular stanzaic form.
What is blank verse?
300
the central idea of a literary work.
What is theme?
400
comparison of two seemingly unlike things using the words like or as
What is simile?
400
attributing of human qualities to things that are not human'
What is personification?
400
regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, each repeated unit of which is called a foot (iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, pyrrhic).
What is meter?
400
this occurs when the sense of a poetic line runs over to the succeeding line, e.g:
In that blest moment from his oozy bed
Old father Thames advanc'd his reverend head.
--Alexander Pope
What is enjambment?
400
the angle from which a story is told
What is point-of-view?
500
a fourteen line poem following a strict rhyming scheme.
What is a sonnet?
500
group of lines in a poem that forms a metrical or thematic unit.
What is a stanza?
500
image or symbol that is so common or significant to a culture that it seems to have a universal importance. This theory originates from Carl Jung who posited such things as a "tree," for instance may represent "growth, life, unfolding of form in a physical and spiritual sense"
What is an archetype?
500
extended or complicated metaphor that is impressive largely because it shows off an author’s power to manipulate and sustain a striking comparison between two dissimilar items
What is conceit
500
The ways the author expresses themself and conveys their ideas and central purpose