A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is Genre
100
A break or pause in a line of poetry.
What is Caesura
100
The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words.
Ex: “And all the air a solemn stillness holds.”
What is Consonance
100
Other than its significant literary importance, The Canterbury Tales is important to the development of language because…
What is it was the first work written in English
100
The antagonist is…
What is a person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of the hero or heroine.
Grendel opposed Beowulf
200
The patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
What is Prosody
200
A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word of comparison, such as like, as, than, or resembles.
Ex: “Susan is like a golden flower”
What is Simile
200
A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Ex: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky
What is Personification
200
The moral or lesson of the "The Pardoner's Tale" Radiix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of evil) is ironic because…
What is the murderers’ greed allows them to find the gold, but it cannot be used as they kill each other as a result of their greed.
200
The tragic flaw is…
What is a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
300
The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.
Ex: River/Shiver, Song/Long
What is Rhyme
300
In Old English poetry, an elaborate phrase that describes persons, things, or events in a metaphorical and indirect way.
Ex: Whale’s home= Sea
What is Kenning
300
In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage.
What is Soliloquy
300
Tragedy is a play in which…
What is the protagonist meets an unhappy or disastrous end.
300
A foil is…
What is a character who sets off another character by contrast.
Banquo is a foil for Macbeth
400
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar.
Ex: “Life's a dream”
What is Metaphor
400
The repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry.
Ex: “Thou foster child of silence and slow time.”
What is Assonance
400
The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
What is Solipsism
400
According to Aristotle the purpose of tragedy is…
What is to show us ourselves and the flaws and temptation we’re exposed to, but to divert us from that path.
400
The turning point of any play…
What is a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis. (Climax)
500
A figure of speech in which an absent or a dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman is addressed directly.
Ex: “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean- roll!”
What is Apostrophe
500
The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words.
Ex: “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.”
What is Alliteration
500
Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is Dialogue
500
The protagonist is…
What is the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem.
Beowulf or Macbeth