Name word
Definitions
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100
The author's attitude
What is tone
100
writings from around the world
What is world iterature
100
metaphor
What is a comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics
100
connsonace
What is he repetition of consonant sounds
100
Contrast
What is the difference between things
200
A five line poem in which lines 1,2, and 5 rhyme and lines 3 nd 4 rhyme. It is usually funny.
What is limerick
200
A sections of additional information at the back of a book
What is appendix
200
A short account of an interesting or humorous incident
What is anecdote
200
Allusion
What is a reference to another work of literature, person or event
200
irony
What is a contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
300
How the reader feel about the text
What is mood
300
the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to an inanimate object.
What is pathetic fallacy
300
phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other
What is parallelism
300
aphorism
What is terse saying embodying a general truth
300
Idiom
What is a common often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally
400
A metrical pattern in poetry in which consists 5 iambic feet per line (one unstressed syllable, one stressed)
What is iambic pentameter
400
A literary work in which characters objects, or actions represent abstractions
What is allegory
400
all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
What is connotation
400
Assonance
What is repetition of vowel sounds
400
pun
What is the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest it's different meanings or aplications
500
using one part of an object to represent the entire object
What is synecdoche
500
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase
What is oxymoron
500
a contradiction or dilema
What is paradox
500
hononym
What is a word spelled exactly like another word but havibg a different meaning
500
viewpoint
What is the way someone sees something
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