literary terms
poetry
syntax
100
A narrative folk song
What is a ballad?
100
two successive rhyming line
What is a couplet?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
200
An association that comes along a particular word
What is connotation?
200
repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad
What is a refrain?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
300
an extravagant exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
300
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
What is a stanza?
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
400
a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work
What is a theme?
400
A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true.
What is a paradox?
400
short, to the point
What is terse?
500
one who gives his or her own understanding of a story
What is a unreliable narrator?
500
The first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic.
What is an octave?
500
learned, polished, scholarly.
What is erudite?
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