Poetry
Types of Writing
Literary Techniques
Writing Techniques
Character Terms
100
A song-like poem that tells a story, often dealing with romance or adventure.
What is a Ballad?
100
Essay using descriptive details.
What is descriptive essay?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words.
What is alliteration?
100
Personal feelings and opinions written by the editor about social and political issues of today.
What is an editorial?
100
Distorted drawing of a famous person-certain features are exaggerated.
What is a caricature?
200
Unrhymed poetry written with an alternating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Blank Verse?
200
A brief story that is written to teach a lesson about human nature.
What is a fable?
200
Occurs after the climax in a work of fiction and shows the effects.
What is falling action?
200
a reference to a well-known work of literature, a famous person, or a historical event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar
What is allusion?
200
techniques a writer uses to create and develop a character
What is characterization?
300
A three-lined Japanese verse form.
What is a Haiku?
300
A story handed down from the past through tradition.
What is a legend?
300
The literary technique in which a word or group of words is repeated throughout a selection.
What is repetition?
300
the conclusion, or ending, after the resolution
What is a denouement?
300
a type of humor that contains ironic criticism yet is funny
What is sarcasm?
400
A five-lined humorous poem.
What is a Limerick?
400
An essay that tells a story.
What is a narrative essay?
400
Words that imitate sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a common phrase or expression that has a different meaning from the actual meaning of the individual words
What is an idiom?
400
long speech made on stage by a character, while other characters are listening
What is a monologue?
500
A stanza or poem made up of four lines, usually with a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme.
What is a Quatrain?
500
A brief statement used to express a principle, goal, or idea.
What is a motto?
500
a line of ten syllables in which every second syllable is accented
What is iambic pentameter?
500
the repetition of a grammatical structure
What is parallelism?
500
a character who provides a striking contrast to another character
What is foil?
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