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The author or speaker's attitude towards the subject of the poem.
What is tone?
100
The rhyme scheme of the following poem: The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with teh pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. ~Robert Browning
What is A, B, C, C, B, A ?
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Devices of meaning
What is similie, metaphor, personification?
100
Boom Boom Pow!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Hinting at what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
200
the repitition of sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
200
"my love is like a red, red rose."
What is simile?
200
synecdoche
What is using a part to stand for the whole?
200
I will die if I don't get those shoes!
What is hyperbole?
200
The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sound of accented syllables or important words.
What is alliteration?
300
the representation through language of sense experience.
What is imagery?
300
An educated assumption based on previously gathered information
What is inference?
300
mood
What is the feeling that the reader gets from a work?
300
"The wind howled like a tired man"
What is personification?
300
A figure of speech in which something (an object, person, situation or action) means more than what it is.
What is symbol?
400
poetry written in unrhyming lines of iambic pentamter.
What is blank verse?
400
"The Merchant of Venice" is about a lovesick man who borrows money from a friend to woo a lady. The friend ends up in debt to an evil loan shark, but the lady saves the day in the end.
What is paraphrase?
400
Devices of sound
What is alliteration, consonance, assonance and ononmatapoeia?
400
Jerking and Smirking Talking and Walking
What is feminine rhyme?
400
The general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
What is irony?
500
rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines.
What is masculine rhyme?
500
The road that Robert Frost speaks of throughout his poem "the road not taken"
What is extended metaphor?
500
Assonance
What is The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words?
500
Washington declared war on Japan in December of 1941.
What is metonymy?
500
poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
What is free verse?
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