Poetry
Vocabulary
Devices
Quotes
Literary Theory and Stuff
100
Analyzing the rhythm and meter in lines of poetry
What is scansion?
100
This word means to pay attention.
What is 'heed'?
100
This device refers to an author making an inanimate object take on human characteristics
What is personification?
100
This means ALMOST a woman
What is Casi Senorita
100
This theory analyzes the social and political role of women in literature.
What is Feminism?
200
A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
What is a trochee rhythm?
200
The opposite of transparent
What is opaque?
200
This form of figurative language involves exaggeration to quantify the extent of a feeling
What is hyperbole?
200
A character that says this in a text you'll name: "My father's in the Navy. He said there aren't any unknown islands left. He says the Queen has a big room full of maps and all the islands in the world are drawn there. So the Queen's got a picture of this island...sooner or later, we shall be rescued"
Who is Ralph in Lord of the Flies
200
The author of Lord of the Flies
Who is William Golding?
300
A rhythm with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an Anapest Rhythm?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is *Teacher will read the answer*
300
The juxtaposition of two contradictory terms or ideas
What is a Paradox?
300
Girls from school walked in groups and one by one they went into their nice homes where mothers fressed in simple skirts and blouses, with hair neatly combed, no paint on their faces, waited by the door and closed it lovingly after their daughters.
What is When I was Puerto Rican
300
This theory analyzes literature based on social and economic class.
What is Marxism?
400
Name the rhythm of the following poem excerpt: She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all thats best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes
What is Iambic rhythm?
400
A secret agent ninja would give a subtle glance, one so _______, that it did not give away his identity.
What is inscrutable?
400
The device for words like eerie, apathetic, solemn, callous or gloomy
What is tone?
400
Cite evidence that supports that Mami has changed since her trip from New York in the text When I was Puerto Rican.
What is [example 189]
400
Name six characters from Lord of the Flies
Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Jack, Sam and Eric
500
Name the rhythm of this poem: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess excellently bright.
What is Trochaic rhythm?
500
Esmeralda was _______ about being reprimanded for not enjoying her powdered milk and peanut butter drink.
What is indignant?
500
This device is used in poetry like this: "What sort of a monster then is man? What a novelty, what a portent, what a chaos, what a mass of contradictions, what a prodigy!"
What is metaphor?
500
The book that holds this quote: "What did it mean? A stick sharpened at both ends. What was there in that?They had thrown spears and missed; all but one. Perhaps they would miss next time too."
What is Lord of the Flies
500
This is the father of Psychoanalysis
Who is Freud?
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