A fictional narrator that can be trusted is called what type of narrator?
What is reliable?
100
The combination of opposites for effect: A cold fire or bright smoke.
What is oxymoron?
100
Directly addressing someone or something that is not present, particularly in poetry
What is apostrophe
200
Language specific to a profession or group
What is jargon
200
A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but is in fact true
What is a paradox.
200
When a character speaks alone on stage s/he is delivering a
What is soliloquy?
200
A brief, witty statement often using contrast and is sometimes in verse form. For example: "I can resist everything except temptation"
What is epigram?
200
A story designed to impart a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question
What is a parable? (Allegorical story is also a correct answer)
300
A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is made from them. There is a major premise, followed by a minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is a syllogism.
300
When something is unclear, often as a result of incompatible meanings in a literary work
What is ambiguity?
300
Stylistic distortions or incongruities used for effect in literature -- such as by Edgar Allen Poe or Flannery O'Connor.
What is grotesque?
400
A line of poetry with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark.
What is end-stopped line?
500
A pair of iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc used most frequently in epic and narrative poems. For example:
Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief;
Ah, more than share it, give me all thy grief.
What is heroic couplet?
500
Unrhymed iambic pentameter as opposed to poetry written without traditional meter.