Definition of a sonnet (including # of lines and type of meter)
What is a 14-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter?
100
In the middle of things
What is "in medias res"?
100
The three types of third-person point of view.
What are objective (or dramatic), limited, and omniscient?
100
2 parts of a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet
What are the octave and the sestet?
100
bog
Who is Geoge in Who's Afraid?
200
An extreme exaggeration made for comedic effect or to stress the importance of a thought, idea, or theme.
What is hyperbole?
200
Occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony.
200
a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work; while it can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt and to imply the need for change.
What is satire?
200
The voice used by the author in the poem; like the narrator in a work of fiction, this voice is often a created identity rather than the author’s actual self.
Who is the speaker?
200
a cuticle-chewer
Who is Cody Tull in DAHR?
300
The gendered type of rhyme illustrated by "flying and dying"
What is feminine rhyme?
300
A character who highlights another character through contrast
Who is a foil?
300
A humorous imitation of a literary work or style; uses exaggeration for comic effect.
What is a parody?
300
The “turn” in a sonnet; the turn occurs as the sonnet moves away from the problem to the solution.
What is a volta?
300
A strumpet
Who is Bianca in Othello?
400
Term for the repetition of "Nevermore" in Poe's Raven.
What is refrain?
400
The name for lines of conflicting dialogue.
What is stichomythia?
400
"Wise fool"
What is oxymoron?
400
An address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something non-human that cannot comprehend.
What is an apostrophe?
400
a Bunburyist
Who is Algernon in Earnest?
500
A 19-line lyric poem, consisting of 5 tercets, 1 quatrain, and only 2 different rhymes.
What is a villanelle?
500
The "untying" or "unknotting," the resolution, especially of a comedy.
What is "denouement"?
500
The repeated "d" sounds in "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed."
What is consonance?
500
Figure of speech in the following: "The menacing eye approached." (don't use metapor or imagery, please)