Poetry
Literary Devices
Rhetorical Devices
Literary Devices II
Who Said It?
100
This type of meter is most often used by Shakespeare.
What is Iambic Pentameter.
100
Where a character or event is used to advance the plot in a convenient manner
What is Deus Ex Machina
100
An appeal to logic or statistics.
What is Logos
100
A statement that contradicts itself and still seems true. "Nobody goes to the movie theater, because it's too crowded"
What is Paradox
100
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Who is Charles Dickens
200
This type of poem is meant to be sung, often dealing with victory in battle.
What is an ode.
200
A more common term for the word paronomasia
What is a pun.
200
This logical fallacy takes place when the conclusion of an argument is presumed to be true in the premise.
What is begging the question.
200
Addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings
What is Apostrophe
200
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Who is Ernest Hemingway
300
A poem that consists of 14 lines, three quatrains and a terminal couplet.
What is a Victorian/Elizabethan Sonnet
300
In modern verse, a pause near the middle of a line, usually for dramatic effect.
What is Caesura
300
Placing two objects side by side to emphasize a difference, create an attitude, or accomplish a goal.
What is Juxtaposition
300
A kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising way
What is Conceit
300
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
400
The majority of Shakespeare's sonnets often take the form of _____.
What are couplets
400
Repeatedly using conjunctions for dramatic effect
What is Polysyndeton
400
Another name for a coming of age novel.
What is a Bildungsroman.
400
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example "Suits" when referring to businessmen.
What is Metonomy
400
"I can resist everything except temptation."
Who is Oscar Wilde
500
This poetic device consists of two unaccented syllables with an accented one right after it, such as com-pre-HEND or in-ter-VENE.
What is Anapest
500
Using a negative statement to subtlety say something negative.
What is Litotes
500
The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.
What is anadiplosis
500
A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses. Ex. "He held a high rank and an old notepad."
What is Zeguma
500
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Who is Mark Twain
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