A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as", "like" or "than."
What is a metaphor?
100
Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
100
The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence.
What is clause?
100
The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work.
What is imagery?
200
The vantage point of the story in which the narrator knows the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.
What is omniscient point of view?
200
A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply.
What is rhetorical question?
200
Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
What is stanza?
200
That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.
What is antecedent?
200
Something that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
What is symbol?
300
The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude.
What is tone?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
What is soliloquy?
300
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
300
The mood of a verb that gives an order.
What is imperative?
300
The dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
400
The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
400
A story in which people, things, and events have another symbolic meaning.
What is allegory?
400
Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.
What is free verse?
400
To restrict or limit in meaning.
What is modify?
400
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
500
Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. It is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly.
What is satire?
500
Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present.
What is apostrophe?
500
Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
What is sonnet?
500
The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable.
What is ellipsis?
500
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.