Words that start with A
Referencing an character, event, or symbol from a classic text.
Allusion
Alliteration
Give me an example
16 line poem
Sonnet
Give me an example of juxtaposition.
your response
Error in judgment
Hamartia
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Antithesis
When a sentence ends with the same words the next sentence begins with.
Anadiplosis
How many quatrains in a sonnet?
three
Give an example of a metaphor.
Your response
Most common type of hamartia.
Hubris
The Mentor
Archetype
Repeating vowel sounds
Assonance
"Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; Being but heavy I will bear the light."
Pun
and snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.”
simile
When a characters actions have the opposite of the intended effect.
Reversal
Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
Analogy
The amount of syllables in a single line of poetry
Metre
“Well in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,
And, in strong proof of chastity well armed,
From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed.”
Allusion
But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath.
Personification
Fear and Pity
Catharsis
Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling.
Look at you! You are so beautiful.
Your eyes behind your veil are doves
your hair is like a flock of goats
coming down from Mt. Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep about to be sheared,
who are coming up from being washed.
Anaphora
When consecutive phrases end with the same word.
Epistrophe
"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven" and insisting if her eyes were taken from her head and put back in the sky "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars."
Hyperbole
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Oxymoron
Most necessary plot point in tragedy
Change of fortune