The grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence.
What is syntax
100
The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way.
What is alliteration?
100
The use of words and phrases that imply strong, harsh sounds within the phrase.
What is cacophony?
100
Claudius's role in the play, Hamlet.
What is antagonist?
100
A single, related group of lines in poetry.
What is a stanza?
200
Repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants.
What is assonance
200
In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the actions of animals on a farm represent the overthrow of the last of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the Communist Revolution of Russia before WWII.
What is allegory?
200
The practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaw.
What is satire?
200
Excessive pride or self-confidence.
What is hubris?
200
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
300
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.
What is anaphora
300
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
What is paradox
300
A reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature, history, etc.
What is allusion
300
A descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a faced of personality.
What is caricature
300
A song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person
What is lyric?
400
Commas used with no conjunction to separate a series of words. X,Y,Z
What is asyndeton
400
"It's not that I love Caesar less, but that I love Rome more."
What is antithesis
400
Using a comparatively milder or less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form.
What is euphemism
400
Harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony.
What is sarcasm
400
A poem of 14 lines having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet
500
The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.
What is parallelism
500
"Whose woods these are I think I know. "
What is anastrophe/inversion
500
A figure of speech that uses the name of an object to represent something with which it is associated, such as "the crown" to refer to a monarch.
What is metonymy
500
In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. Ex.Obama can't even control his own smoking habits, how's he going to control the country.