Fantasies of Fritz...
Do you know your poetry?
Let's pass the time with a rhyme
Grab Bag
Can you explain this for me please?
100
the opposition or contrast of ideas
What is antithesis
100
repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words
What is assonance
100
two line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same
What is a couplet
100
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
What is apostrophe
100
What is the difference between a round and dynamic character?
What is dynamic character will learn and change throughout the course of the story.
200
A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.
What is conceit
200
repetition of the similar or identical vowel sounds
What is assonance
200
"Once upon a midnight weary, while I wandered weak and weary" is an example of what type of rhyme?
What is internal rhyme
200
quotation at the beginning of a poem, short story, book chapter, or other piece of literature.
What is epigraph
300
the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
What is metonymy
300
harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones
What is cacophony
300
a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed. Ex: waken, foresaken
What is feminine rhyme
300
beginning a story in the middle of the narrative
What is in medias res
300
Name the three types of irony in a work and define.
What is situational irony (situation where the outcome is incongruous with what was expected), dramatic irony (the audience's or reader's knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters), and vernal irony (a comment that conveys a different meaning than what it may seem to be)
400
the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
What is anaphora
400
5 tercets, followed by a quatrain
What is villanelle
400
Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme words. Ex: sleep/keep
What is masculine rhyme
400
the continuation of the sense and grammatical structure from one line of poetry to the next
What is enjambment
400
Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice are both examples of this type of novel. Explain how this term helps to frame the novels
What is epistolary novel
500
a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite.
What is litotes
500
two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed AA, BB, CC with the thought usually completed in a two line unit.
What is heroic couplet
500
A four lined stanza rhymed ABCD with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four
What is ballad meter
500
Sonnets and odes are examples of what type of poems
What is lyric poems
500
What is FID, and what are three specific advantages to using FID?
What is a special type of third-person narration that slips in and out of characters' consciousness. In other words, characters' thoughts, feelings, and words are filtered through the third-person narrator
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