Definition of a sonnet (including # of lines and type of meter)
What is a 14-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter?
100
A tragic hero's character weakness, according to Aristotle.
What is a tragic flaw?
100
The three types of third-person point of view.
What are objective (or dramatic), limited, and omniscient?
100
2 parts of a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet
What are the octave and the sestet?
100
A regional variation of speech.
What is dialect?
200
An extreme exaggeration made for comedic effect or to stress the importance of a thought, idea, or theme.
What is hyperbole?
200
Occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony.
200
a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work; while it can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt and to imply the need for change.
What is satire?
200
The voice used by the author in the poem; like the narrator in a work of fiction, this voice is often a created identity rather than the author’s actual self.
Who is the speaker?
200
a specialized vocabulary used by people in various occupations
What is jargon?
300
The gendered type of rhyme illustrated by "flying and dying"
What is feminine rhyme?
300
A character who highlights another character through contrast
Who is a foil?
300
A humorous imitation of a literary work or style; uses exaggeration for comic effect.
What is a parody?
300
The “turn” in a sonnet; the turn occurs as the sonnet moves away from the problem to the solution.
What is a volta?
300
a strident, discordant combination of sounds--"guttering," or "choking," for instance.
What is cacophony?
400
Term for the repetition of "Nevermore" in Poe's Raven.
What is refrain?
400
The name for lines of conflicting dialogue.
What is stichomythia?
400
"Wise fool"
What is oxymoron?
400
An address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something non-human that cannot comprehend.
What is an apostrophe?
400
a long, serious, meditative work of poetry written in an elevated style; a famous one is "____ on a Grecian Urn."
What is an ode?
500
A 19-line lyric poem, consisting of 5 tercets, 1 quatrain, and only 2 different rhymes.
What is a villanelle?
500
The "untying" or "unknotting," the resolution, especially of a comedy.
What is "denouement"?
500
The repeated "d" sounds in "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed."
What is consonance?
500
Figure of speech in the following: "The menacing eye approached." (don't use metapor or imagery, please)
What is synecdoche?
500
the most common metrical unit--an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable