a figure of speech that directly compares two things through the explicit use of connecting words
what is a simile?
100
the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning...
incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
what is irony?
100
the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words.
what is alliteration?
100
a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature, often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events.
what is an allusion?
100
the use of 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?
200
a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.
what is a metaphor?
200
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
what is paradox?
200
the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
what is assonance?
200
the central topic a text treats, an idea or point that is central to a story, which can often be summed in a single word.
what is theme?
200
portraying or expressive of the life of shepherds or country people especially in an idealized and conventionalized manner.
what is pastoral?
300
an object imbued with a meaning that is different from its original meaning or function and employed in multiple texts, to the point of being "common knowledge."
what is a symbol?
300
a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation
what is allegory?
300
poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters.
what is blank verse?
300
a story within a story, within sometimes yet another story.
what is frame narrative?
300
a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.
what is an epic?
400
a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway
what is synaesthesia?
400
a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
what is analogy?
400
incomplete syntax at the end of a line;[2] the meaning runs-over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
what is enjambment?
400
a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.
what is an unreliable narrator?
400
a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.
what is an epistolary novel?
500
a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept.
what is metonymy?
500
a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables.
what is sprung rhythm?
500
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
what is a sonnet?
500
a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.