The Big Five
What is Diction?
A comparison or analogy to imply that one subject is another, figuratively speaking
What is Metaphor?
unstressed stressed beat with 10 syllabes
What is Iambic Pentameter?
a tone suggesting a sneering disbelief, often containing irony, also obvious distrust
"meaning of the work"
What is Theme?
Verbal representation of sense experience; bringing immediacy of the sensory experience to writing
What is Imagery?
writing that acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events not only represent themselves on the literal level, but layers of symbolism exist throughout
What is Allegory?
Two lines--the second line immediately following the first--of the same metrical length and rhyme
What is Couplet?
having to do with twilight, shadow areas, and darkness
What is Crepuscular?
ATTTT
What is author, time period, type, and ARGUABLE thesis/claim?
What is syntax?
A casual reference in literature to another person, place, event, or another passage in literature, often without explicit identification.
What is Allusion?
repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning words with the same vowel sounds.
What is Alliteration?
Showing great knowledge gained from study
What is Erudite?
a contradictory universal truth
What is Paradox?
Expression of attitude by the speaker/author
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is Irony?
stanza of four lines
Quatrain
Characterized by bold and elaborate descriptions often including exaggeration.
What is Flamboyant?
Tin-Can Heart
Rain
Cucumber Sandwiches
What is Symbol?
facts, observations, incidents that are stated, or not to develop a piece
What is detail?
the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development
a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry
plain, harsh, simple, or bare
What is Stark?
What is Apt and specific?