Poetry
Characters
Word Play
Literary devices
Hodge Podge
100
a kind of poem or song that tells a story (often about love)
What is a ballad?
100
The author or a character tells the reader what the character is like or the author.
What is direct presentation?
100
The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say (especially with the intent to insult someone or to produce humour).
What is sarcasm?
100
speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning.
What is figurative language?
100
the most exciting and interesting part of something.
What is climax?
200
poetry that does not rhyme but has a regular rhythm
What is blank verse?
200
Narration from the perspective of "I" or "we"
What is first person point-of-view?
200
Yo momma is so fat that everytime someone yells Koolaid, she jumps through a brick wall.
What is a metaphor?
200
Something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things that seems impiossible but is actually true
What is a paradox?
200
Arranged in order of time of occurrence
What is chronological order?
300
verse or a poem that can, or supposedly can, be sung to music (traditionally accompanied with a lyre) that expresses intense personal emotion.
What is a lyric?
300
A character that the reader learns a lot about
What is a round character?
300
you were so ugly as a kid that when you played in the sandbox, cats tried to bury you.
What is a metaphor?
300
a combination of words that have opposite of very different meanings
What is oxymoron?
300
an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning
What is connotation?
400
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What is a rhyme scheme?
400
The character who causes conflict for the main character
Who is the antagonist?
400
The use of language so that the words stimulate the senses of the reader
What is imagery?
400
a regular, repeated pattern of sound
What is rhythm?
400
a related series of events in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest
What is rising action?
500
a poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern
What is a sonnet?
500
A character that is that does not undergo a change
What is a static character?
500
I'm so rich, Oprah Winfrey does my laundry and Bill gates mows my lawn.
What is hyperbole?
500
to say that something is smaller, less important, etc., than it really is.
What is understatement?
500
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Who is Hara?
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