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Bored of the Rings
The Starving Games
Austin Powers
What is parody?
short novel
What is novella?
The Tortoise and the Hare
type of literature such as fiction and poetry; type of work such as detective fiction, epic poetry
overused
What is a dead metaphor?
"That was as pleasant as a root canal!"
What is verbal irony?
developed as far as the writer wants to take it
What is an extended metaphor?
Nobody goes to that restaurant. It's too crowded.
What is paradox?
minor character who is used to highlight qualities of a major character
What is foil character?
mixes terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible
What is a mixed metaphor?
"The water vendor died of thirst"
some grammatical forms are repeated
What is parallelism?
Home Alone
What is farce?
one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified
What is metonymy?
two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; five stress couples are often called this regardless of their topic or period in which they were written
What is heroic couplet?
Let's come together by staying apart.
What is an oxymoron?
term for bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the 20th century
We all know the ending of Titanic — that ship is going down. But everyone on board thinks that it’s “unsinkable”
What is dramatic irony?
traditional poetic form with topic material drawn from the often idealized lives and vocabularies of rural and shepherd life
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
"I haven't seen you in a million years!"
What is overstatment?
sentimental dramatic form with an artificially happy ending
What is Melodrama?
"Stir up a hornet's nest"
"Bite off more than you can chew"
"Head over heels"
"Back against the wall"
What is idiom?
comic use of improperly pronounced word so that what comes out is a real but also incorrect word
What is malapropism?
20th century movement in poetry which advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely written in everyday speech
What is imagism?