Literary Terms I
Literary Terms II
Potpourri
Grammar
Vocabulary
100
A comparison between two things not using like or as.
What is metaphor?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as?"
What is a simile?
100
Emotion the author has about his/her subject (topic of the writing).
What is tone?
100
Replaces nouns in sentences.
What are pronouns?
100
A synonym for the word detest. Afghans cherish custom but detest rules.
What is abhor?
200
The message of the literature.
What is theme?
200
A reference in one piece of literature to another piece of literature.
What is an allusion?
200
Emotion the reader feels when reading literature.
What is mood?
200
"Imagine that you are Fay Wray in King Kong's enormous hand, screaming and struggling in terror, in the 1933 science fiction classic. If someone could measure your heart rate, blood pressure, and blood levels of corticosterone and glucose, the readings would be off the charts. These same physiological responses to acute fear and stress occur in animals such as rats, mice, rabbits, monkeys, and other species commonly used in laboratory experiments. The experience of being picked up by a human experimenter may be every bit as fearsome as being palmed by King Kong." How could this paragraph be revised to be more effective?
What is stating a knowledgeable claim?
200
Emotions.
What is pathos?
300
"Except that wasn't all. The real fun began when a kite was cut. That was where the kite runners came in, those kids who chased the windblown kite drifting through the neighborhoods until it came spiraling down in a field, dropping in someone's yard, one a tree, or a rooftop."
What is imagery?
300
"Kind of like when we used to play insect torture. Except now, he was the ant and I was holding the magnifying glass..."
What is metaphor?
300
"The impact of Christianity was really felt hard in the literature of a long time ago." This has a formal or informal tone?
What is informal?
300
Punctuation used for lists.
What is a comma?
300
Logic/reason
What is logos?
400
What one of four stanzas in a sonnet is called.
What is a stanza?
400
A contradiction or statement of opposites.
What is a paradox?
400
The writing structure for non-fiction in which the writing tries to show how one person, event, or idea changed the world.
What is cause and effect?
400
Term used to describe a noun that a pronoun replaces in a sentence.
What is an antecedent?
400
Credibility/ethical beliefs.
What is ethos?
500
"And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."
What is paradox?
500
"I envied them. To be local was to know which team to support: the local team; where to drop in for a pint with mates: the local best of all to feel by birthright welcome anywhere; be everywhere a local..."
What is repetition?
500
"Our responsibility is to manage the animals in our care and balance their suffering against the good that comes from them." This is appeal to the reader's
What is ethical beliefs (ethos)?
500
"Whether at home or away, whether kids playing or saying what they wanted, or adults chatting, waiting for a bus, or, in their well-tended graves, the contented dead, there were always locals, and they were never us." If the tone of this stanza is sorrowful, a synonym for sorrowful is...
What is regretful?
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