"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,/The furrow followed free;/We were the first that ever burst/Into that silent sea." - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
What is alliteration
100
A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point?
What is anecdote
100
"Out of the pan into the fire" and "Cool as a cucumber"
What is dead metaphor
100
A literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
What is chronological ordering
100
"Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
What is dramatic irony
200
"Premise: Socrates is a man, and all men are mortal. Conclusion: Socrates is mortal."
What is deductive reasoning
200
The implied meaning of a word separate from the explicit meaning
What is connotation
200
Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction examples of?
What is genre
200
A literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
Characterization
200
“I had to wait in the station for ten days – an eternity.” - The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
What is hyperbole
300
“I used to smoke a lot. Everyone let me know that it was bad for my health however, I didn’t pay any notice. One day I saw my two years of age offspring trying for a used cigarette within an ashtray. Seeing this, abruptly it dawned upon me how terrible smoking was and I stopped smoking.”
What is epiphany
300
The arrangement of ideas, thoughts, people, places, things, etc. into like groups?
What is classification
300
In “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Hyde is Dr. Jekyll’s...
What is foil
300
A character who changes over the course of a story
What is dynamic character
300
What is “We have decided to downsize the company.”
What is euphamism
400
"This place is like a Garden of Eden".
What is allusion
400
Introduces background information
What is exposition
400
“Victor” the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” exhibits this in his endeavor to become an unmatched scientist. He creates a “monster” named “Frankenstein” which ultimately becomes the cause of his disaster.
What is hubris
400
A character who does not change over the course of a story
What is a flat character
400
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief.” -Romeo in Romeo and Juliet
What is extended metaphor
500
“God! he said quietly. Isn’t the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother?” - Ulysses by James Joyce
great sweet mother is an example of...
What is epithet
500
Abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events
What is allegory
500
“This marble from the bag is black. That marble from the bag is black. A third marble from the bag is black. Therefore all the marbles in the bag are black.”
What is inductive reasoning
500
Note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram?
What is annotation
500
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” -The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft