Language that is serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms)
What is formal language?
100
The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions,
usually for emphasis.
What is polysyndeton?
100
Used to describe a work or language that evokes a desire
for the past, usually a condition that
cannot be duplicated.
What is nostalgic?
100
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
100
The emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
200
Keats’ line“Heard melodies are sweet but unheard melodies are sweeter” is an example of this poetic device.
What is synesthesia?
200
The final line of Tennyson’s “Ulysses,”
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,”
is an example of this.
What is parallelism?
200
Poetry that does not conform to any regular meter
and does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
200
Refers to harsh sounds.
What is cacophony?
200
Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
300
learned, polished, scholarly
What is erudite?
300
the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
300
Latin for “seize the day.” The idea of living for the moment
is a popular type of poetry.
What is carpe deim poetry
300
Rhyme that is close but not exact, for example, hearse/horse and worm/warm.
What is approximate or slant rhyme?
300
What a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
400
When the dying Mercutio says,
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall
find me a grave man,” the word
“grave” is an example of this.
What is a pun?
400
The speed of a sentence (or group of sentences) that comes through a variety of means, such as length of words, number of words, omission of words or punctuation.
What is pace?
400
An elaborate, formal lyric poem that pays homage to something
What is an ode?
400
Refers to pleasing, harmonious sounds.
What is euphony?
400
A clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
500
Placing the extraordinary next to the mundane is an example of this.
What is juxtaposition?
500
The speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
500
A reflective poem that laments the loss of someone,
typically through death.
What is an elegy?
500
Sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet - abab cdcd efef gg