Poetry
A pair of ryhming lines
What is a couplet?
A conflict involving opposing forces within a person’s mind.
What is internal conflict?
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
someone says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.
What is dialect?
unrhymed poetry
What is free verse?
A character that has only one or two personality traits.
What is a flat character?
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What is onomatopoeia?
the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
What is theme?
an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different.
Often an extended metaphor.
What is conceit?
A foot which starts with an unstressed (unaccented) syllable and then has a stressed (accented) syllable
What is an iamb?
a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind.
What is stream of consciousness?
jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.
What is tone?
brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim, epigram.
What is aphorism?
Five feet
What is a pentameter?
The author reveals what the character is like by describing how the character looks, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character’s private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters’ effect on other people (showing how other characters about the character), or by showing the character in action.
What is indirect characterization?
"gonna" used in everyday language.
What is colloquialism?
a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change.
What is satire?
calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea
What is apostrophe?
A foot which has two unstressed (unaccented) syllables followed by a stressed (accented) syllable.
What is an anapest?
a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
repeat vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The following are examples of this.
"I must be cruel to be kind."
"War is peace."
"Death, thou shalt die,"
What is paradox?
A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. Ex. "We requested the crown support for petition."
What is metonymy?