Literary Terms
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as
What is a simile?
An exaggeration for emphasis/dramatic effect is what rhetorical device?
What is hyperbole?
Given the four types of writing: Persuasive, Expository, Narrative, and Descriptive, which type of writing would you use to get someone to think a certain way about a topic?
What is persuasive?
In poetry, what is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem called?
What is rhyme scheme?
What is the speaker’s/author's attitude toward his subject called?
What is tone?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
The phrase "Let us go forth to lead the land we love," spoken by President J. F. Kennedy uses what rhetorical device?
What is alliteration?
Given the four types of writing: Persuasive, Expository, Narrative, and Descriptive, which type of writing is often anecdotal and personal? (In other terms, which type of writing often involves telling a story about yourself?)
What is narrative?
In poetry, what is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit called?
What is a stanza?
What is a Tragic Hero?
What is a character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall because of a fatal flaw?
The lyric "Love is a battlefield" is an example of what literary device?
What is a metaphor?
In MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, his line: "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing..." is utilizing what rhetorical device?
What is allusion?
Given the four types of writing: Persuasive, Expository, Narrative, and Descriptive, which type of writing would you use vivid, sensory details about a person, place or thing so that the reader can envision it in their mind?
What is descriptive?
Give me the rhyme scheme of these lines from Countee Cullen's poem Any Human to Another:
The ills I sorrow at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat
And past the bone
What is A,B,C,C,A,B?
Name the three modes of persuasion used to convince an audience of something? (What kind of reasoning/strategies do people use to persuade others?)
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
In The Crucible, the audience knowing that Abigail is lying, but Danforth not knowing this is an example of what literary device?
What is dramatic irony?
In MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, his lines: "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia..." utilize what rhetorical device?
What is anaphora?
Given the four types of writing: Persuasive, Expository, Narrative, and Descriptive, which type of writing is defined as presenting reasons, explanations, or steps in a process in order to clarify something to the reader?
What is expository?
A line of poetry that contains 10 syllables (5 pairs, called iambs, of stressed and unstressed syllables) is using what?
What is iambic pentameter?
Name the 5 parts of a plot in a story in order.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
In The Great Gatsby, the line "Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet and gazed around with fascinated eyes," from Chapter 8 is utilizing what literary device?
What is foreshadowing?
In the speech "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" by Frederick Douglass, his lines "To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity..." are an example of what rhetorical device?
What is parallelism?
When writing a college essay, what was the one important tip that I emphasized would show the college who you really are? (What was really important to include in your college essay?)
What is an anecdote or personal story?
Give me each component of SOAPSTone.
What are speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject and tone?
What is Mrs. Wohlfeil's #1 rule on her list of Classroom Rules?
What is Be Respectful?