Poetry Terms
Novels
General Lit Questions
Style
Figurative Language
100

the narrative voice of the poem.

What is the speaker?

100

Who is the protagonist in Things Fall Apart?

What is Okonkwo?

100

How many multiple choice quiestions are there?

What is 55?

100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100

A reference to a historical character, event, or literature.

What is allusion?

200

a two-line stanza, rhymes

What is couplet?
200

Which book is non-fiction?

What is The Glass Castle?

200
the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
200

Visually discriptive of figurative language; 5 senses

What is imagery?

300

A form of poetry that tells a story of a past affair, usually dramatic with vivid dialogue 

What is ballad?

300

What is Street Car Named Desire considered?

What is play?

300
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.
What is metonymy?
400

Poem set in the poet's meditations on death, a poem of lament.

What is elegy?

400

What is the theme of Pride and Prejudice?

What is an pride and prejudice?

400

What does the C stand for in TPCASTT?

What is connotation?

400
short, to the point.
What is terse?
400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is a metaphysical conceit (or simply conceit, for short)?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
500

In Their Eyes Were Watching God what were the names of Janie's three husbands?

What is Logan, Joe, and Teacake?

500

Intentional omission of words of phrases that are otherwise understood by context; also refers to a narrative device in which insignificant events are ommitted from the story

What is ellipsis?

500
learned, polished, scholarly.
What is erudite?
500
a short quotation or verse that precedes a poem (or any text) to set the tone, provide a setting, or give other context for the poem.
What is an epigram?
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