Genres
Rhetoric
Etymology of WOD
Sonnets
Literary Elements
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is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

What is fiction

100

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or connected words

What is Alliteration

100
  • First recorded in 1590–1600 in the sense of “a whole.”
  • The astronomical sense highlighted here was first recorded in the 1840s.
  • Comes from the noun total, which came from the Latin word tōtālis, meaning “entire.”

What is Totality

100

a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it was not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by a string of Renaissance poets.

What is a Italian sonnet (also known as the Petrarchan Sonnet

100

is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.

What is Plot 

200

tells the story of real people and events. Examples include biographies, autobiographies, or memoirs.

What is Nonfiction

200

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

What is Simile

200
  • First recorded around 1400–50.
  • Comes from an Old French noun that derived from the verb farder, meaning “to apply makeup.”
  • Farder probably came from the Old Low Franconian verb *farwiđon, “to dye, color.”

What is Fard

200

is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo.

What is English Sonnet (also known as the Shakespearean Sonnet)

200

 is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

What id Narrator

300

is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television

What is Drama

300

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

What is Metaphor

300
  • First recorded in 1865–70.
  • Comes from the noun range, which refers to an open region for grazing livestock.
  • Range comes from the Old French word renge, meaning “row,” which is a derivative of renc, “line,” related to rank, “a row or line of people.”

What is chagrin

300

is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. A Spenserian sonnet comprises three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, 

Whats is Spenserian sonnet

300

 the narrator's position in relation to a story being told.

What is Point of view

400

In this style of writing, words are arranged in a metrical pattern and often (though not always) in rhymed verse.

What is Poetry

400

THe formation of a word from sound associated with what is named.

What is Onomatopoeia

400
  • First recorded in 1650–60.
  • Comes from the French word chagrin, meaning “melancholy, anxiety, vexation.”
  • The French word chagrin is of unknown origin.

What os Chagrin

400

What is the rhyme scheme for a Spenserian sonnet.

What is ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

400

is any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work.

What is Characters

500

which is also referred to as mythology, tells stories of originally oral literature and are meant to pass on particular moral lessons.

What is Folktale

500

An implied or indirect reference to a person, event or thing or to a part of another text

What is Allusion

500
  • First recorded in 1665–75 from French.
  • As the adjective naive, comes via the Old French word naif, meaning “natural, instinctive,” from Latin nātīvus “natural.”

What s Naivete

500

What is the rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnets

What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

500

a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

What is Conflict

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