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a reference to something known or famous (example: He ran with the feet of Mercury.)
What is an allusion?
figure of speech where you use “like” or “as” to compare two different things and show a common quality between them (example: “My love is like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June.”)
What is a simile?
a kind of metaphor in which you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms
What is personification?
Rhyme that occurs and the ends of lines of poetry
What is end rhyme?
The narrator hung his cat from a tree
What is "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe?
the literal meaning of a word (dictionary definition)
What is denotation?
a figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing (example: “Juliet is the sun.”)
What is a metaphor?
a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
What is a dialect?
a rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry rather than the end of the lines
What is an internal rhyme?
The narrator was found guilty in the Spanish Inquisition and tortured in a dungeon
What is "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe?
the emotions associated with a word
What is connotation?
a character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story (example: Jem and Scout Finch)
What is a dynamic character?
a repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together
What is alliteration?
Literature genre that consists of dark and unusual settings, horrific or gruesome and highly descriptive plots, and uncommon characters
What is traditional Gothic literature?
A group of girls in a Puritan village cause mass hysteria that leads to many hangings
What is The Crucible by Arthur Miller?
a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character (example: Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale from The Crucible)
What is a character FOIL?
character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline (example: Atticus Finch)
What is a static character?
a repetition of vowel sounds in words close together
What is assonance?
Literature genre that involves ordinary people and settings with unsettling events taking place
What is modern Gothic literature?
A jilted woman kills her lover with arsenic and then keeps the decomposing corpse to sleep beside for many years
What is "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?
the placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to bring out their differences
What is juxtaposition?
the custom of using present tense verbs when writing about events that take place in a work of fiction (example: John Proctor rips the warrant and refuses to have his confession made public.)
What is the literary present tense?
the usage of informal or everyday language in literature
What is colloquialism?
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices
What is satire?
In this tale of Karma, an abusive husband dies from the poisonous snake he brought home to get rid of his wife
What is "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston?