Words 4
What is vanquish?
What is adjective?
Type of clause in italics:
Where there's music, someone chose to make a song over all other things on this earth.What is independent clause?
The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work
What is meter?
The number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter
What is 10?
Nobly generous, forgiving
What is magnanimous?
I watched his lovely face and not the blade.
What is verb?
Type of clause in italics:
Before the story ended, he'd removed
the iron sliver I thought I'd die from.
What is dependent clause?
The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader
What is imagery?
The number of lines in a sonnet
What is 14?
Definition of mendacious
What is lying, false?
What is preposition?
Type of clause in italics:
Let me make the songs for the weary,What is dependent clause?
A play on words often using words with similar or identical sounds but different meanings
What is a pun?
When Donne says, "Death be not Proud," what is the literary term for the fact that he is talking to Death and telling Death not to be proud?
What is personification?
Definition of macabre
What is dwelling on the gruesome?
Watch as I lift the splinter out.
What is article?
Identify the number of independent clauses:
Yesterday at my soccer game, I surprised myself by scoring three points; my teammates were elated, but the other team was frustrated.
What is 3?
A statement that appears at first to be contradictory, but upon reflection then makes sense
What is paradox?
The meter used in both "Songs for the People" and "Because I could not stop for Death"
What is common meter?
"One Art" is not very ______ about the idea of death; instead of being overly sentimental about loss, the poem instead uses irony to express ostensible detachment from loss while nonetheless evincing actual pain beneath the surface.
What is maudlin?
Subordinating conjunction
Identify the number of dependent clauses:
When I walked to class today, I was excited about the possibility of playing Jeopardy, but I didn't know that my day would later get even better because I won the game.
What is 2?
A rhetorical device that features the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses
What is anaphora?
The century in which Phillis Wheatley's poem "On Imagination" was written