Nunes' Favs
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Grab Bag
100
That vaccume really sucked! (wink , wink)
What is a pun
100
an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect
What is Bathos
100
Most political cartoons in newspapers and magazines use this
What is Satire
100
I am writing this sentance. the POV?
What is 1st person
100
Sentance structure... need i say more?
What is Syntax
200
a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses
What is parallelism
200
is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition.
What is Caesura
200
a recurring subject, theme, idea
What is a Motif
200
irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play/ story
What is Dramatic Irony
200
Emotional appeal
What is Pathos
300
Romeo O Romeo where art thou Romeo
What is Apostrophe
300
the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses
What is Enjambment
300
a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist)
What is a Foil
300
the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.
What is Indirect Characterization
300
the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
What is Antithesis
400
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: — William Blake, London
What is Anaphora
400
the repetition of words in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis Example:"O horror, horror, horror."
What is Epizeuxis
400
Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas.
What is a Lyric
400
four-line stanzas (called quatrains) and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter[17
What is Shakespearean sonnet
400
a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses
What is Asyndeton
500
a word, phrase, or paralanguage that is employed in conversational or informal language but not in formal speech or academic writing
What is Colloquialism
500
is often described as a hero's fatal flaw
What is Hamartia
500
It is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
What is an Epistrophe
500
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is Blank verse
500
the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence.
What is Inversion
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