Fancy Imagery
Types of Comparison
Not Saying What You Mean
Epic Devices
Stringing Words Together
100
This is the fancy term for touch imagery.
What is tactile imagery?
100
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
This is exaggerating something for effect.
What is hyperbole?
100
This is a nametag used to briefly describe and ID a character.
What is a stock epithet?
100
This is the fancy term used for "regular writing" (non-poetry).
What is prose?
200
This is the fancy term for sound imagery.
What is auditory imagery?
200
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
200
This is minimizing something for effect.
What is understatement?
200
This is what Homer does to get his inspiration for his epic poem.
What is invoke the muse?
200
This is utilizing the same phrase at the beginning of multiple lines of poetry.
What is anaphora?
300
This is the fancy term for taste imagery.
What is gustatory imagery?
300
This is an extended explanation of something that compares one more complex idea to a simpler, more familiar idea for the purpose of understanding.
What is analogy?
300
This is finding a nicer way to say something that might otherwise be offensive or impolite.
What is euphemism?
300
The Iliad begins in year ten of the Trojan War; thus, the story begins in this way.
What is en medeas res?
300
Dante writes in sets of three lines known as these.
What are tercets?
400
This is the fancy term for smell imagery.
What is olfactory imagery?
400
This type of poem is one in which the entire poem is a stretched out comparison between two things.
What is an extended metaphor?
400
This is referring to something by referring to a part of that thing (i.e. four mouths to feed).
What is synecdoche?
400
This is utilized when Achilleus is compared to a hawk chasing after a dove (Hektor).
What is epic simile?
400
As an author, you choose words on purpose to evoke different emotional meanings, also known as this.
What is connotation?
500
This is the fancy term for movement/motion imagery.
What is kinesthetic imagery?
500
This is a "double story," where basically everything in a story is a symbolic metaphor for something else.
What is an allegory?
500
This is referring to something by negating its opposite (i.e. Instead of saying, "That's a great painting," you say, "That's not a bad painting.")
What is litotes?
500
This is an extended description of a work of art within a work of literature.
What is an ekphrasis?
500
This is created when an author repeatedly uses a certain image, idea, or device, so often that it creates a recognizable pattern.
What is a motif?
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