Poetry
A recurring or repeating words, sound, phrases, clauses, or lines in text to create emphasis
What is refrain?
A storyteller who lacks credibility because of bias, deception, inexperience, cognitive impairment, lack of information
What is an unreliable narrator?
A commonly used phrase that signifies something very different than its literal meaning
What is an idiom?
The literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word
What is denotation?
Near or oblique rhyme. Words within or at the end of lines ALMOST rhyme
What is a slant rhyme?
An author’s choice of order and tempo to reveal the events of the story’s plot
What is narrative pace?
A figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other
What is a metaphor?
The noun the pronoun is referring to
What is an antecedent
A specific, prescribed meter or rhyme scheme
What is closed form?
The structure of a narrative in which conflict creates a plot, leading to a climax and an ending with a resolution
Refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses
What is imagery?
The author’s/speaker’s attitude toward a subject
What is tone?
A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables
What is foot?
A narrative technique in which the narrator addresses the audience–”you” and the reader becomes a character in the story
What is 2nd person perspective?
A phrase or assertion that appears to contradict itself (but the contradiction itself may have its own meaning)
A writer's unique style of expression, especially his or her choice and arrangement of words
What is diction?
A rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. ex: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.
What is an iambic pentameter
A story told in 3rd person from an all-knowing perspective
What is a 3rd person omniscient perspective?
Saying the opposite of what you mean; used to describe situations in which the results of an action are dramatically different than intended
What is irony
The implied meaning of a word; positive, negative, or neutral
What is connotation