Terms That Have To Do With Sounds
A repetition of similar vowel sounds like "twice five miles"
What is assonance?
Repetition of words or phrases
What is an anaphora?
What is a couplet?
A punctuation mark that indicates a missing letter or a possessive
What is an apostrophe?
"God in the Machine" or a force that sweeps in at the last minute in the story and saves the day
What is "Deus et Machina"?
Discordant, unattractive sounds that come when certain words are put together
What is cacophony?
A two-syllable word in which the emphasis is on the second syllable?
A type of poetry that is 14 lines long, uses iambic pentameter, and was frequently used by Shakespeare
What is a sonnet?
An inversion of the usual order of words or clauses
What is an anastrophe?
When an author uses metaphors, allusions, similes, hyberboles and other literary tools to express ideas in ways other than literally.
What is figurative language?
What is consonance?
What is a trochee?
A famous symmetrical literary structure used in ancient literature
What is a chiasmus?
When a poet removes conjunctions for emphasis. "I came, I saw, I conquered"
What is Asyndeton?
A scene that takes place before the story begins; or when an author takes the reader "back in time" to explain or reveal something
What is a flashback?
What is an epistrophe?
A line of poetry that has ten metric feet
What is pentameter?
The description of the overarching structure of a poem
What is form?
A pause that occurs within a line of poetry, usually marked by some form of punctuation such as a period, comma, ellipsis, or dash.
What is a caesura?
A character who is presented as a contrast to a second character to highlight an aspect of the first character. Dr. Watson is this to Sherlock Holmes to highlight Holmes' detective skills.
What is a foil?
The quality of being pleasant to the ear
What is euphony?
When a reader matches rhymes with the letters, A, B, etc in order to see a pattern in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more unaccented syllables
What is a foot?
A word used in place of another when the original word is offensive, harsh, blunt, or unacceptable.
What is a euphemism?
Hints a writer gives a reader about what could be happening next
What is foreshadowing?