It describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.
What does tone describe about the author?
100
A question that is asked not to elicit a response but to make an impact or call attention to something.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
What does the word Dialect mean?
100
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
What is a free verse poem?
100
Antigone
What is symbolic of the choice between the gods' authority and civil authority?
200
A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
What is an anaphora?
200
A combination of metaphors that produces a confused or contradictory image.
What is mixed metaphor?
200
The narrator tells the story to another character using 'you' or the author could also be talking to the audience, which we could tell by the use of 'you, you're, or your'
What is 2nd point of view/person?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What does alliteration mean?
200
Innocent blood, the archetypal brother-versus-brother conflict.
What does Cain and Abel represent?
300
The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is Syntax?
300
A common figure of speech in which the literal sense of what is said falls detectably short of (or "under") the magnitude of what is being talked about.
What is a litote?
300
The narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside.
What is an objective point of view?
300
A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
What is a soliloquy?
300
Symbolic of a man's willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice to demonstrate his faith and trust in god. Faith shall be rewarded.
What is Abraham and Isaac symbolic for?
400
Making on idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite
Describe a juxtaposition.
400
A figure of speech in which something typically associated with a thing or person is used to represent that thing or person.
What is the Metonymy mean?
400
Motif
What word if the main theme or subject of a work that is elaborated on in the development of the piece and a repeated pattern or idea?
400
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
Describe what a couplet is in a poem.
400
The location of the final cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil. Used in literature to refer to an apocalyptic climax, or to a time of judgment.
What is Armageddon?
500
A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second called "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.
What is Syllogism?
500
Syllepsis
What is typically used interchangeably with zeugma, but should be used to refer to a zeugma-like effect that is comic?
500
Denounement
What is the point at which the plot of a novel or drama is finally resolved; the outcome or solution of a complex sequence of events called?
500
A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines.
What does a Villanelle consist of?
500
Achilles heel
Who was dipped in the Styx river, where his heel was the only thing not dipped and killed by Paris with a poison arrow?