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foreshadowing
What is a hint that suggests a future event?
100
meter
What is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line?
100
Onomatopoeia
What is a figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense?
100
tone
What is a literary word that expresses the writer's attitude toward his o her subject?
100
stanza
What is a grouping of lines separated from others in a poem.
200
flashback
What is an interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time?
200
sensory details
What are words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste?
200
narrative poetry
What is poetry that tells a story?
200
imagery
What are words and phrases that appeal to the reader's 5 senses?
200
metaphor
What is a comparison that is made directly?
300
rhyme
What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?
300
rhyme scheme
What is a pattern of rhymes developed throughout a poem?
300
settings
What is the time and place the story occurs?
300
allusion
What is A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
300
personification
What is a figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person?
400
theme
What is the message about life or human nature that the author wants to share?
400
mood
What is the overall atmosphere or feeling that a writer creates for the reader?
400
plot
What is a series of events that center on a conflict faced by a main character or individual?
400
couplet
What is a pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length.
400
parodox
What is a figure of speech that is a self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth.
500
symbol
What is a person, a place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself?
500
refrain
What is the same word, phrase, or line repeated several times?
500
rhythm
What is a beat in a poem?
500
simile
What is a comparison made with “as” or “like” ?
500
irony
What is a literary device that implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
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