Poetry
Rhetoric
Figurative Language 1
Figurative Language 2
Genre
100
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
What is meter?
100
A means of convincing others via the credibility and character of the persuader
What is ethos?
100
The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way as to appeal to physical senses.
What is imagery?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
a poem in honor of someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
200
a syllabic unit in poetry
What is a foot?
200
A technique writers use to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption using exaggeration or ridicule.
What is satire?
200
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
200
The object being compared in a metaphor.
What is the tenor?
200
Nonfiction account of a life's story.
What is biography?
300
Repeated consonant sounds in close proximity.
What is alliteration?
300
A means of convincing others based on an appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
300
A figure of speech in which an author addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.
What is apostrophe?
300
An implied comparison.
What is a metaphor?
300
An extended narrative of prose fiction.
What is a novel?
400
The speaker in a poem.
What is persona?
400
leaving out the conjunctions between listed phrases, clauses, or words.
What is asyndeton?
400
The words "pop," "bang," and "swish" all have this in common.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The part stands for the whole in this figure of speech.
What is synecdoche?
400
a long narrative poem on a serious subject in elevated style centered on a hero's exploits to save his society.
What is an epic?
500
A syllabic unit with two syllables: unstressed followed by stressed.
What is an iamb?
500
An appeal to logical argument used in persuasive speech or writing.
What is logos?
500
an implied idea, association, or feeling associated with a word in addition to its literal definition.
What is connotation?
500
The image invoked as a comparison in a metaphor.
What is the vehicle?
500
A 14-line poem with a regular rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
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