A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
What is allegory?
100
Describe the distinctive nature or features of something.
What is characterization?
100
Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work.
What is imagery?
100
A statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
What is paradox?
100
The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
What is setting?
200
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
What is allusion?
200
The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
What is catharsis?
200
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
200
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is parody?
200
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What is simile?
300
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
300
Excessive pride in oneself.
What is conceit?
300
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
300
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
300
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
400
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
What is assonance?
400
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
What is diction?
400
A traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon.
What is myth?
400
The action or process of recognizing or being recognized.
What is recognition?
400
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
What is theme?
500
A punctuation mark used to indicate either possession or the omission of letters or numbers.
What is apostrophe?
500
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
What is fable?
500
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is satire?
500
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.