Plot Pyramid
The section of the story that wraps up the plot and brings the story to an ending.
The resolution.
"The mad and mysterious man" is an example of:
Alliteration.
A division or group of lines in a poem is called a:
Stanza.
A reference to events or action that happened before the main time of the story. (i.e. when a story cuts to a point some time in the past before cutting back to the present.)
Flashback.
The moment that kicks off the main conflict.
The inciting incident.
A type of rhyme in which two words with similar but slightly mismatched words are paired.
Slant rhyme. Another type of rhyme is eye rhyme, where two words are spelled alike but pronounced differently.
A pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, repeated five times (for a total of ten syllables). Shakespeare used this meter often.
Iambic Pentameter.
Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences, such as in, "I came, I saw, I conquered."
Parallelism.
The moment of highest tension and emotion is known as the climax. The major turning point for the main character is called the:
Crisis.
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words.
Assonance.
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter.
A line or group of lines repeated throughout a poem.
A refrain.
What is the inciting incident and crisis of "The Necklace"?
Inciting incident - Mme. Loisel gets the invitation to the ball. Crisis - they lose the necklace.
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following lines of poetry: At length did cross an Albatross,/Thorough the fog it came;/As if it had been a Christian soul,/We hailed it in God's name.
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Explain the difference between blank verse and free verse.
Blank verse is unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter; free verse has no rhyme, meter, or regular line length.
Name two differences between an English and an Italian Sonnet.
The first two pages of "The Possibility of Evil," which detail Miss Strangeworth's routine before we find out about her letter writing, can be considered this part of the plot pyramid.
The exposition.
Define consonance.
The repetition of consonant sounds not at the beginning of words.
What is poetic foot?
The specific combination of two or three stressed or unstressed syllables that repeats throughout a poem's lines.