To give an inanimate object the characteristics of a human.
What is personification?
100
Visually descriptive or figurative language.
What is figurative language?
100
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a punctuation mark used to indicate possession of the omission of letters or numbers
What is an apostrophe?
200
The most intense, important, or exciting part of something.
What is Climax?
200
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
200
When a character’s dialogue is spoken but NOT heard by the other characters.
What is aside?
200
The “I” or self of any person
What is Ego?
300
A kind of drama that generally contains five stages, where the characters go through a horrible suffering.
What is a tragedy?
300
(of a literary work) in the form of letters.
What is epistolary?
300
The light flows into the bowl of the midnight sky, violet, amber and rose.
What is a metaphor?
300
a feeling of dread, anxiety or anguish
What is angst?
400
the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
What is Victorianism?
400
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is Couplet?
400
Latin for "into the middle of things."
What is In media res?
400
inductive and deductive reasoning are ways to portray this method of convincing an audience.
What is logos?
400
Diction used to describe a sound. Ex: honk, boom, drip
What is onomatopoeia?
500
a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.
What is bildungsroman?
500
“One winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before."
What is hyperbole?
500
The concept that Frankenstein’s monster in a state of nature is inherently good and can only be corrupted by the evils of society.
What is Noble savage?
500
The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break