Narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale.
What is FABLE?
100
the repitition of the leading consonant sound of a word throughout a line of poetry; LITTLE LOVELY LILIES
What is ALLITERATION?
100
the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase such as like, as than, similar to, resembles or seems; He ran as fast as a cheetah!
What is SIMILE?
100
The time and place of a literary work that establish its context
What is SETTING?
200
Fiction with strange or other worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.
What is FANTASY?
200
a word or grouping of words that immitate the sound in which it is describing; HONK! HONK!
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
200
the comparison is implied - that is, the figurative term is substituted for or identified with the literal term. His arm was a rock!
What is METAPHOR?
200
A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form
What is STANZA?
300
Humorous story with exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible.
What is a TALL TALE?
300
Poetry communicates experience and experience comes to us largely through the senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, and touching.
What is IMAGERY?
300
a mental picture, something seen in the mind's eye
What is IMAGE?
300
The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject
What is TONE?
400
Story about magical creatures, usually for children.
What are FAIRY TALES?
400
consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
400
EXAMPLE: I wandered lonely as a cloud
What is PERSONIFICATION?
400
The main idea throughout the whole text
What is THEME?
500
The reason they are called FOLK TALES
What is spoken before written?
500
Read a poem more than once. Read so as to hear the sounds of the words in your mind. Poetry is written to be heard: its meanings are conveyed through sound as well as through print. Every word is therefore important. Always pay careful attention to what the poem is saying.
What is HOW TO UNDERSTAND A POEM?
500
EXAMPLE:
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially slim.