Definitions
Where a poet chooses to end a line.
Line break
A group of lines in poetry.
Stanza
He was talking a million miles an hour.
Hyperbole
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
What is a material that will not carry an electric charge called?
Insulator
When an author drops hints at what will happen later.
Foreshadowing
The controlling idea of a paragraph.
Topic sentence
The clouds were like cotton candy.
Simile
The waves were fists to the rocky shore.
Metaphor
What Roman leader was assassinated on March 15th, 44 B.C.E?
Julius Caesar
Lines that break where there are natural pauses in speech like commas, periods, semi-colons, etc.
End-stopped line
Attention grabbing first line of an essay.
Hook
The dog barked at the mail man.
Onomatopoeia
The story jumped off the page.
Personification
What state is known as "the cowboy state"?
Wyoming
The controlling idea or argument an essay focuses on.
Thesis
Lines where the sentence continues into the next line without a pause at the break.
Enjambment
A wife sells her hair to buy her husband a new watch chain, but the husband sells his watch to get his wife a comb for her hair.
Irony
The shaggy brown dog leapt off the sofa. Its nails clacked against the hardwood floors as the smell of wet dog got closer and closer.
Imagery
Who was the 26th president?
Theodore Roosevelt
When a character is alone on stage speaking to themself or the audience.
Soliloquy
When something concrete and literal stands for something that is abstract and figurative.
Symbolism
"You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout…"
Anaphora
The silence was deafening.
Oxymoron
In what modern day country did Norse mythology first develop?
Germany