A device to give non-living things human or animate characteristics.
What is personification?
100
The use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A long speech delivered by a lone character on stage
What is a soliloquy?
100
a play on words
What is a pun?
100
The range of further associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
200
A driect comparison
What is a metaphor?
200
The repetition of hissing or ‘s’ sounds close together in a text
What is sibilance?
200
a short, informal reference to a famous person or event
What is an allusion?
200
a question used for effect or provocation
What is rhetorical question?
200
The speaker's attitude towards the subject being addressed
What is tone?
300
using a part to represent a whole
What is synechdoche?
300
Deliberate use of harsh sounding letters or sounds
What is cacophony?
300
The pattern of 5 groups of stressed and unstressed beats in a line
What is iambic pentameter?
300
A group of lines that make up a section of a poem
What is a stanza?
400
the blending of different senses in a description
What is synaesthesia?
400
when sounds are similar but not an exact match
What is half-rhyme?
400
a device whereby characters can speak private thoughts aloud onstage, but other characters, although present, cannot "hear" those thoughts.
What is an aside?
400
an appeal to the audience's emotions
What is pathos?
400
The reversal of expectation or a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
What is irony?
500
descriptions that evoke a sense of touch
What is tactile imagery?
500
the organisation of sound patterns within a line or verse
What is rhythm?
500
a device which establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure
What is antithesis?
500
The insertion of more conjunctions than strictly necessary
What is polysyndeton?
500
A comparison of two things which are alike in many aspects