A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. "I've told you a million times."
What is a hyperbole?
100
The all-knowing narrator tells us everything about many characters.
What is the omniscient point of view?
100
Author of Lord of the Flies
Who is William Golding?
100
An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected.
What is mood?
100
The repetition of vowel sounds within words for a specific sound effect.
What is assonance?
200
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?
200
The character on stage thinks one thing is true but the audience or reader knows better?
What is dramatic irony?
200
Author of The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
200
A character who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action.
What is a dynamic character?
200
In poetry, the speaker addresses a dead or absent person or a place or thing.
What is an apostrophe?
300
A figure of speech in which a person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested that `the crown' support our efforts!"
What is metonymy?
300
The use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person, place or experience.
What is imagery?
300
Author of A Doll's House.
Who is Henrik Ibsen?
300
Scene the interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
300
A play on words - multiple meanings of a single word.
What is a pun?
400
The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures. "On summer days, I swim, I read, and I bask in the glory of an unscheduled day."
What is parallel structure?
400
A type of comedy which uses stereotyped characters who are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.
What is a farce?
400
Author of The Scarlet Letter.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
400
The practice of using an object to represent a more abstract idea.
What is symbolism (a symbol)?
400
A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style.
What is a parody?
500
A term used to describe sounds that are harsh and unpleasant. "He crasps the crag with crooked hands...."
What is cacophony (cacophonous sounds)?
500
A statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth.
What is a paradox?
500
Author of The Kite Runner.
Who is Khaled Hosseini?
500
The acceptance of the supernatural as reality; it differs from pure fantasy because it is set in a normal, modern world with authentic descriptions of humans and society.
What is magic realism?
500
A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change.