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Exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor.
What is satire?
100
A question that suggests an answer.
What is rhetorical question?
100
A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.
What is refrain?
100
A startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines.
What is conceit?
100
A group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose.
What is stanza?
200
A trait or characteristic.
What is aspect?
200
In drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it.
What is chorus?
200
A short and usually witty saying.
What is aphorism?
200
The third person narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understands all the action going on.
What is limited omniscient narrator?
200
The usually humorous use of word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings.
What is pun?
300
This is the use of disturbing themes in comedy.
What is black humor?
300
A poem set in tranquil nature, or even more specifically, one about shepherds.
What is pastoral?
300
A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense love.
What is lament?
300
To say or write something that suggests or implies but never says it directly or clearly.
What is implicit?
300
A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme.
What is ballad?
400
Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds.
What is cacophony?
400
The author's choice of words.
What is diction?
400
The main character of a novel or play.
What is protagonist?
400
An address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea.
What is apostrophe?
400
This is pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language.
What is bombast?
500
The protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty.
What is nemesis?
500
Poetry written without regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern.
What is free verse?
500
A satire.
What is lampoon?
500
Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
500
When the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy.
What is b(p)athos?
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