Poetry
Literature Types
Figurative Language
Words
Drama
100
A group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
The category in which a work of literature is classified.
What is genre?
100
This figure of speech makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of a connecting work like "resembles."
What is a metaphor?
100
The dictionary definition of a word; its literal meaning.
What is the denotation?
100
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
Two consecutive lines of poetry that for a unit - often emphasized by a rhyme scheme.
What is a couplet?
200
A short piece of narrative fiction.
What is a short story?
200
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
200
All the meanings, associations or emotions that a word suggests.
What is connotations?
200
In a play, words spoken to the audience or to another character but not overheard by others onstage.
What is an aside?
300
A repeated word, phrase, or group of lines.
What is a refrain?
300
A short piece of non-fiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view.
What is an essay?
300
The giving of human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
300
A play on the multiple meanings of a workd or on two words that sound the same but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
300
A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
What is tragedy?
400
A fourteen line, lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
400
An outrageously exaggerated and obviously unbelievable humorous story.
What is a tall tale?
400
The particuliar way in which a writer uses language - created mostly through diction, figurative language, and sentence patterns.
What is style?
400
A peculiar expression to a particuliar language that means something different from the literal meaning of the word.
What is an idiom?
400
A story that is written to be acted by live characters for an audience.
What is a drama?
500
A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particuliar society.
What is an epic?
500
Brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about life.
What is a fable?
500
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
500
The writers's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text.
What is voice?
500
A long speech in which a character who is alone on stage expresses private thoughts or feelings.
What is a soliloquy?
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