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
Stand up!
What is an imperative sentence?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100
a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, situation used throughout a work--unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme.
What is motif?
200
regularized rhythm;an arrangement of language in which accents occur at apparently equal intervals.
What is meter?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
What is juxtaposition?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
200
involves a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
What is internal rhyme?
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
He was running, walking and jumping for joy.
What is 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
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
That morning, after a turbulent flight and some exciting experiences, we reached Edmonton.
What is a periodic sentence?
400
repetition of words, phrases at the beginning and the end of lines.
What is epanalepsis?
400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is a conceit?
500
a metrical line containing five feet
What is iambic pentameter?
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
How many pictures of one Nymph we view,
All how unlike each other, all how true!
What is anastrophe?
500
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
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.