Terminology 1
Alliteration
What is the "use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word"?
An open clash between two opposing groups
What is conflict?
A text that tells a story
What is a narrative?
Point-of-View
What is a position from which events are perceived (i.e., first person, third person)?
The first soft drink in space
What is Coca-Cola?
The highest point of a story
What is the climax?
The introduction to a story which includes the characters, setting, and mood
What is the exposition?
Personification
What is attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas or things?
A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of poetry
What is a stanza?
Thor's hammer
What is Mjolnir?
Connotation
What is "an idea that is implied or suggested?"
Flashback
What is a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene?
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Protagonist vs. Antagonist
What is the main character or hero vs. the secondary character or villain?
A verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
The number of keys on a standard piano
What is 88?
The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
What is denotation?
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The use of words or images to represent specific concepts, people, objects, or events
What is symbolism?
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Soliloquy
What is a speech made to oneself?
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
What are the five Great Lakes?
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Couplet
What is "a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse"?
An incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
What is irony?
A stanza of four lines
What is quatrain?
Witty language used to convey insults or scorn
What is satire?
The largest country in the world
What is Russia?