Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
What is alliteration.
100
a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
What is tragedy.
200
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
What is couplet.
200
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
What is verse/stanza.
200
Writers choice of words, phrases, or sentence structures.
What is diction.
200
is putting two contradictory words together.
What is oxymoron.
200
a work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning.
What is allegory.
300
a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
What is epic.
300
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony.
300
is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing.
300
is substituting a word for another word closely associated with it.
What is metonymy.
300
a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
What is aside.
400
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
What is sonnet.
400
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is soliloquy.
400
is writing or language that evokes one or all of the five senses.
What is imagery.
400
is the comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship.
What is analogy.
400
Inconsistency between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen.
What is Irony.
500
in poetry, 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.
500
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).
What is onomatopoeia
500
is an important and sometimes recurring theme or idea in a work of literature.
What is motif
500
is a deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect