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Poetry
100
alliteration
What is a phrase that starts with the same letter or sound? i.e. Karen cracks corn.
100
Fairy Tales
What are fanciful tales of legendary deeds and creatures usually intended for children?
100
Dialogue
What is conversation between or among characters?
100
Allusion
What is a reference to a historical event or custom, a work of literature or art, or a well-known person or place?
100
Free verse
What is the name of poetry that lacks a rhyme scheme or fixed metrical pattern?
200
Consonance
What is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words? i.e. clustered spires of Frederick
200
Historical Fiction
What are stories or books about people and places in the past?
200
Mood
What is the literary term that describes how a piece of literature makes you feel?
200
Biblical allusion
What is a reference to a biblical event, person, or place? i.e. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
200
Slant rhyme
What is a rhyme in which words are close, but not perfect rhymes, i.e. "crumb and home"
300
Assonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words? I.e. The crumbling thunder of seas.
300
Speech
What is a public address? i.e. The Gettysburg Address
300
Tone
What is a writer's attitude toward subject, audience, and self? The words that tell us how something sounds when someone speaks.
300
Punctuation
What is the use of dashes, commas, periods, etc. to show where to pause when reading to emphasize point or words, or break the reading?
300
Internal rhyme
What is rhythm that occurs within a line of poetry? ex. score, four, and more in "Casey at the Bat."
400
Rhythm
What is a pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. i.e. UP from the MEADows RICH with CORN
400
Play
What is a literary work designed for performance on a stage?
400
Setting
What is the time, place, and circumstances in which a story takes place?
400
Acronym
What is a word formed from the initial letters in a phrase?
400
External rhyme
What is it called when the last word of two or more lines of verse rhyme with each other?
500
Extended metaphor
What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
500
Abolitionist Literature
What are books and materials designed to increase anti-slavery sentiment?
500
Imagery
What are the words and phrases called that appeal to the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell?
500
Unconventional capitalization
What is the use of capital letters for common nouns and/or entire words the author wishes to emphasize?
500
Rhyme scheme
What is the rhyming pattern of a poem called?
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