Imaginative Comparison
This distinguishes a simile from a metaphor.
What is the use of "like" or "as"?
Meter most often directly affects this feature of a poem.
What is the mood?
Symbols are often deeply connected with this other aspect of a story.
What is theme?
This is the general tone of "The Day the Dam Broke."
What is humorous?
This character functions as a foil to Tortoise.
Who is his wife?
This is the term for a metaphor whose tenor remains unstated.
What is an implied metaphor?
This is rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
The various rooms in "The Masque of the Red Death" symbolize this.
What are the stages of life?
The Screwtape Letters provides a great example of this kind of irony.
What is structural irony?
This person deceives Hector during his fight with Achilles.
Who is Athena?
He is the hero of "Return of the Rangers."
Who is Major Rogers?
What is personification?
This is the mood or emotion that the reader is supposed to share with the characters.
What is atmospher?
Screwtape refers to this as "that abominable advantage of the enemy."
What is the incarnation?
The myth "Pandora" seeks to explain these two things.
What are the first woman and the origin of evil?
What is a stairway?
Most techniques for organizing sound and syntax are based on these two principles.
What are parallelism and repetition?
Prince Prospero and his courtiers and the Red Death symbolize these things, respectively.
What are humanity and death?
This is the emotion the author of "The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill" is trying to evoke.
What is indignation?
This is the main type of irony present in "The Lion-Makers."
What is situational irony?
George Herbert's "The Windows" uses this type of imaginative comparison.
What is a conceit?
This is the theme of "Travelling Through the Dark."
What is that life's moral dilemmas often require hard decisions?
This is the main theme of "Cupid's Arrows."
What is that love is more important than status or wealth?
This is expressing a positive statement by denying its opposite.
What is litotes?
These are the three main themes of the IliadI.
What are fate, immortal glory, and the inevitability of death?