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 main idea or most important point in a story or poem. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is climax?
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
the continuation of line construction from one line to the next without punctuation
What is enjambment?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
the rhythmic, pleasing, musical combination of words
What is euphony?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
200
The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning
Often achieved through the use of hyperbole or understatement
What is irony?
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 pace or speed of a sentence (or group of sentences) that comes through a variety of means, such as length of words, number of words, omission of words or punctuation, etc.
What is narrative pace?
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
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
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
A combination of words that are intentionally harsh and unpleasant
What is cacaphony/cacaphonus?
400
short, to the point.
What is terse?
400
something that is itself and a sign of something else
What is a symbol?
500
reference to a well known historical, literary, or biblical event
What is allusion?
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
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?
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.