Authors
Poetry
Literary Terms
And More Literary Terms
And yet some more terms
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The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
100
A structural division in poetry
What is a stanza
100
Big, bad, barking dog.
What is alliteration
100
An example is: "I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars a year."
What is understatement or litotes
100
This type of character undergoes many changes in development
What is a dynamic character
200
He wrote The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
200
A strong pause in a line of poetry
What is a caesura
200
"It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles And see the great Achilles, whom we knew."
What is allusion
200
"Life's but a walking shadow" is an example of
What is metaphor
200
"the whole pageantry of the year was awake, tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself
What is personification
300
Her claim to fame is using multiple narrators in her novel.
Who is Barbara Kingsolver
300
When the narrator addresses someone or something not actually present
What is apostrophe
300
A novel in letter form
What is epistolary novel
300
"the white house" instead of "the president"
What is metonymy
300
When a word is used in order to play with dual meanings, it is called (Hint: Hamlet uses these when joking with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)
What is double entendre
400
His play ends with a "slam of a door".
Who is Henrik Ibsen
400
The name of a poem that has 3 quatrains and ends with a rhyming couplet
What is Shakespearean sonnet
400
Fortinbras is Hamlet's
What is foil
400
"My only love sprung from my only hate!" is an example of
What is paradox
400
The audience knowing something that the characters do not know
What is dramatic irony
500
He is famous for both his poems and his plays.
Who is William Shakespeare
500
The rhyme pattern most used by Shakespeare
What is iambic pentameter
500
In literature, a work that begins in the middle of the story.
What is in medias res
500
The wicked stepmother, the dizzy blonde, and the absent-minded professor are examples of
What is a stock character
500
"Without a dream, without faith, without hope, there is nothing."
What is parallelism
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