the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100
the author who coined the famous lines, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
an address or invocation to something that is inanimate.
What is an apostrophe?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
Critically acclaimed author, recognized for her creative and inspiring use of irony.
Who is Kate Chopin?
200
a monolgue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience?
What is dramatic monologue (soliloquy)?
200
retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative.
What is flashback?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
The author who is recognized for his vivid portayal of childhood, highlighting that, "Children are not coloring books to be filled with your favorite colors."
Who is Khalid Hosseini?
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
a narrative poem that is, or originally was meant to be sung.
What is a ballad?
400
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
400
The pioneer of realistic drama.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
400
a question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered.
What is rhetorical question?
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
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
500
Wrote a novel in response to Joseph Conrad's "Hearts of Darkness".
Who is Chinua Achebe?
500
a work that describes the simple life of country folk.
What is pastoral?
500
a poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroins, often concernec with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture.