A figure f speech in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are endowed with human form, character, traits, or sensibilities.
What is 'Personification'?
100
The repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase, line of poetry, or sentence.
What is 'Alliteration'?
100
A for of Japanese verse usually employing allusions and comparisons. Composed of three lines containing a fixed number of syllables, usually seventeen.
What is 'Haiku'?
100
Geat exaggeration. Ex. I'm as hungry as a horse.
What is 'Hyperbole'?
200
Includes when the story takes place, location, circumstances and characters, including the main backdrop and mood of the story.
What is 'Setting'?
200
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to a person, idea, or object to which it is not literally applicable. A direct comparison.
What is a 'Metaphor'?
200
The repetition of a vowel sound within a series of words.
What is 'assonance'?
200
A poem of 14 lines, with rhymes according to certain definite patterns (rhyme schemes).
What is a 'Sonnet'?
200
Conversation between two people in a story.
What is 'Dialogue'?
300
The perspective of the narrative view ie first person (I), third person (him/her/it), or omniscient (God-like).
What is 'Point of View'?
300
A figure of speech in which two things, essentially different but thought to be alike in one or more respects, are compared using the words'like', 'as', or 'than'.
What is a 'Simile'?
300
The formation and use of word that suggest by their sounds the object or idea being named.
What is 'onomatopoeia'?
300
A short, subjective poem with a songlike outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings.
What is 'Lyric'?
300
An attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
What is 'Satire'?
400
The dilemma facing the character inside his mind and its impact.
What is 'Internal Conflict'?
400
The deliberate creation of mental impressions or visualized likenesses by description in words, phrases, or sentences.
What is 'Imagery'?
400
Harsh or discordant-sounding words, such as cracked, ugly, vomit, pucker, stuck, battered.
What is 'cacophony'?
400
A brief poem or other form of writing praising a deceased person.
What is an 'Epitaph'?
400
Words that come to have a special (different) meaning that the original definition of the word. Ex - That car is 'hot'!
What is 'Idioms'?
500
A technique used by authors to provide for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later in the story.
What is 'Foreshadowing'?
500
The placement of two things together in order to create contrast. Example: "A rusty bible".
What is 'juxtaposition'?
500
Harmonious or beautiful-sounding words, like silence, bells, chimes, softness, lilting, silver, meadow.
What is 'Euphony'?
500
Poetry which depends in part upon the arrangement of words and letters to convey meaning.