Literary Definitions
Figurative Language
Poetry Words
Rhetoric and Argument
Just Words...
100
This is where and when a piece of literature takes place.
What is setting?
100
She felt as light as a feather. (for example)
What is a simile?
100
This is the person who is "talking" in a poem.
Who is the speaker?
100
This is the sentence that describes the point being made in an argument.
What is the claim?
100
to give up a position, usually one of leadership
What is abdicate?
200
This is the observation about people and life that the author seems to be making through a work of literature.
What is theme?
200
She was no longer a flower in bloom - open to the world of new ideas. (for example)
What is metaphor?
200
"cat, rat, bat"
What is rhyme?
200
These are devices used in order to convince an audience of something.
What are rhetorical devices?
200
(n.) a love song (also a type of poetry)
What is a ballad?
300
This is the feeling that the reader gets as they read a work of literature.
What is mood?
300
I am so hungry I could eat a horse. (for example)
What is hyperbole?
300
This is the name of the "chunks" of a poem that are broken up - the equivalent of a paragraph.
What are stanzas?
300
This is an acknowledgement of the other side of an argument?
What is a counterclaim?
300
(v.) to criticize publicly
What is to denounce?
400
This is the attitude we get from an author toward the subject of their writing.
What is tone.
400
The sunlight dance across her face. (for example)
What is personification?
400
This is a pair of lines in poetry, often joined by rhyme.
What is a couplet?
400
Appeals to credibility, emotion, and logic, respectively.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
400
(v.) to obtain, acquire
What is to procure?
500
This is a reference to something that is well known.
What is allusion?
500
As I walked into the kitchen, I could hear the popping of bacon grease and smell the sticky sweetness of syrup waiting for pancakes. (for example)
What is imagery?
500
This is the pattern in which words rhyme in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
This is the rhetorical device being used when a speaker makes the audience feel deep sympathy for something affected by an issue.
What is pathos?
500
(v.) to hate, detest
What is to abhor?
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