Literary Terms
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
A young girl becomes increasingly aware of the hypocrisy and prejudice in her small southern town in the coming-of-age story by Harper Lee.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light."
What is assonance?
the action of throwing someone out of a window.
What is Defenestration?
Released her hit song Rumors, featuring Cardi B
Who is Lizzo?
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
A disillusioned teen is fed up with all the "phoniness" in the world in this novel often assigned by English teachers.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
What is a Stanza?
the only word in the English language that rhymes with orange.
No it doesn't.
This Cuban-American singer and songwriter recently starred in a remake of Cinderella on Amazon Prime.
Camilla Cabello
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
Author of Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl.
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is Enjambment?
this animal can sleep up to three years at a time.
What is a snail?
The young-adult vampire-romance novel made into a hit film.
What is Twilight?
an elaborate simile that compares an ordinary event or situation with the more complex idea in the text that is often recognized by the use of "just as, so then."
What is an epic or Homeric simile?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel.
What is a dystopian novel?
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
This type of crab has 10 eyes.
American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, businessman, fashion designer, and 2020 United States presidential candidate who recently released his album, Donda.
What is Kanye West?
a genre that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is Satire?
In this novel by John Knowles, Gene Forrester looks back on his days at a New Hampshire boarding school.
What is A Separate Peace?
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
this animal sleeps with one eye open.
What is a dolphin?
Father of X Æ A-12, founder of Tesla and Space X.
Who is Elon Musk?