Type or class of literature such as epic or narrative etc.
What is Genre
100
Sequential repetition of similar initial sounds, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables.
What is Alliteration
100
Marlow's vessel into "the heart of darkness."
What is the Steamboat
100
Genre of play or story, type used for Twelfth Night.
What is Comedy
100
The arrangement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of the events.
What is plot
200
Ordinary language, the vernacular.
What is Colloquial
200
Verse form that most closely resembles common speech, consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse
200
Major Character in Heart of Darkness. Exemplifies the madness and corruption brought on by British Imperialism.
Who is Kurtz
200
Poetic form that divides the poem into 3 units of four lines each and a final unit of two lines. Usually abab cdcd efef gg.
What is Shakespearean Sonnet
200
Form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical.
What is sarcasm
300
Repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually found in closely proximate stressed syllables.
What is Assonance
300
Metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is a Iambic
300
Textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework. In H.O.D. it takes the form of a story being told inside a story.
What is narrative structure
300
Situation found in Twelfth night, where a character loves one character who loves another and around in a sometimes humorous arrangement.
What is a love triangle
300
One who appears in a number of stories or plays such as a cruel stepmother, femme fatale, etc.
What is Stock Character
400
The sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or mood of a piece of writing; the feeling the author holds toward the subject.
What is Attitude
400
Narrative poem that is meant to be sung, Repetition and refrain characterize it.
What is Ballad
400
A major theme in Heart of Darkness. Depicted as dark, evil, hypocritical.
What is British Imperialism
400
Drama in which a character is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force.
What is a Tragedy
400
The practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life with idealization and with attention to detail.
What is Realism
500
A poetic or prose narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance.
What is Allegory
500
Metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable.
What is Dactylic
500
Symbol in H.O.D.; corollary to darkness. Not only hides, but distorts things.
What is fog
500
Monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to his/herself.
What is Soliloquy
500
Another name for concrete poetry: poetry that is shaped to look like an object.