I would love to see a dog that
is not nearly so fat.
What is enjambment?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text - I talk about it all the time - it's HUGE (What is the author's _____?)
What is tone?
100
14 lines, iambic pentamer, ABAB, CDCD, etc.
What is Shakespearean sonnet?
100
(mean-spirited) 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
"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"
What is assonance?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
Mary had a little lamb its fleas was white as snow
What is malapropism?
200
"If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine the Great
What is epigram & epithet?
200
You rhyme every time
What is masculine or internal rhyme?
300
"I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet".
What is alliteration?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
Between all the bleeding & fighting
I've been reading and writing
What is feminine rhyme?
300
Writing that is serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
We had to do a HEAD COUNT each time we got on the bus.
What is metonymy?
400
In the grand scheme of things, my aunt and I had no GPS; we got lost not even knowing where we were going. I do not remember a nap.
What is juxtaposition or paradox?
400
The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves, is hardly realistic, but the movie’s details are consistent, and it also portrays a moral truth — that people at the bottom are exploited by those in power to the point where they believe prefer to believe illusions over reality.
What is verisimilitude?
400
I don't need to mow,
Don't have a cow!
What is eye rhyme?
400
informal language (uses slang, contractions, etc.)
What is colloquial?
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 anagnorisis or epiphany or revelation?
500
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.