The specific literal meaning of a word to be found in the dictionary.
What is denotation?
100
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
100
A word that tells the reader who the speaker is, especially when citing from a text.
What is an attributive tag?
100
"My love is like a red, red rose"
What is a simile?
100
Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
200
The specialized language of a profession or group.
What is jargon?
200
A poem written in iambic pentameter, normall composed of 14-lines.
What is a sonnet?
200
On the works cited page, entries use this special kind of indent.
What is a hanging indent?
200
My rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
200
The background of a story or the physical location.
What is the setting?
300
The inclusion of material unrelated to the actual subject of a work.
What is a digression?
300
The use of words whose very sound suggests their actual meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The first sentence of each paragraph should start with this kind of sentence, as well as a transition.
What is a topic sentence or a claim?
300
This poetic form follows a strict pattern of the repetition of the initial six end-words of the first stanza through the remaining five six-line stanzas, culminating in a three-line envoy.
What is a sestina?
300
A comparison of two objects or ideas without using a comparative term (such as "like" or "as").
What is a metaphor?
400
Multiple meanings that a literary work may communicate, especially when two meanings are incompatible.
What is ambiguity?
400
Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, usually containing a complete thought in the two-line unit.
What is a heroic couplet?
400
This kind of thesis incorporates both the opposing point-of-view and the writer's claim, providing the reader with a look at the contrast between the two views.
What is a tension-filled thesis?
400
This poetic form divides its 14 lines into two parts, the first part being an octave and the second being a sestet. The rhyme scheme is typically abba abba cde cde (or cdc dcd).
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
400
A point of view in whch the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he chooses.
What is omniscient point of view?
500
A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.
What is a euphamism?
500
A repeated grouping of 3 or more lines, usually with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
What is a stanza?
500
The puntuation missing in the following sentence:
She shouted excitedly, "Don't go in there__ __ and then ran over and slammed the door.
What is an exclamation point and (end) quotation marks?
500
This type of poetry focuses on country life, often romanticizing it and its life-affirming qualities.
What is pastoral poetry?
500
A combination of opposition or a union of contradictory terms.