Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Authors
Novels
Figurative Language
100
A deliberate rhetorical, grammatical, or rhythmic pause, break, cut, turn, division, or pivot in poetry.
What is the caesura?
100
a discrepancy between appearances and reality.
What is irony?
100

The author of Frankenstein

Who is Mary Shelly?

100
This novel is about two men who dream big but never quite achieve their American Dream.
What is Of Mice and Men?
100
the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. “Pop.” “Zap.”
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
Continuation of sense and rhythmic movement from one line to the next; also called a “run-on” line.
What is Enjambment?
200
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is Metaphor?
200

The author of The Awakening

Who is Kate Chopin?

200
This novel is about a young woman who faces hating the remaining of her life with her husband and two children so she leaves them behind.
What is The Awakening?
200
a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. “If you don’t drive properly, you will lose your wheels.” The wheels represent the entire car.
What is synecdoche?
300
Stanza of 4 lines.
What is Quatrain?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
The author of The Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker?
300
This work is about a greedy man who longs to become king before his time.
What is Macbeth?
300
a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.
What is a fable?
400
The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds
What is assonance?
400
a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work
What is a motif?
400

The author of Our Town

Who is Thornton Wilder?

400
This novel is not a novel at all but is written like one while actually being a bildungsroman and autobiography of a young woman until she reaches 17 years old.
What is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
400
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A lyric poem that is 14 lines long.divided into two quatrains and a six-line “sestet,” with the rhyme scheme abba abba cdecde (or cdcdcd) or three quatrains and a final couplet, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
What is a sonnet?
500
a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life.
What is a parable?
500
The author of The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgereld?
500

This work is about a man with mommy issues who creates a being and then abandons said being. 

What is Frankenstein?

500
the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
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