What's the Word?
To think about
Ponder
Tragic Comedy
Oxymoron
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
Personification
Poem by Shelley written about a crumbling statue in the desert
Ozymandias
A standard for judgement
Criterion
"He is brave as a lion."
Simile
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Euphemism
An poetic, apocalyptical take on the return of Jesus
The Second Coming
To look at something closely
Scrutinize
"I told you a million times."
Hyperbole
A brief reference to a famous person or event
Allusion
Prominent author during the Harlem Renaissance; author of "Let American Be American Again"
Langston Hughes
To gather
Garner
"See no evil; hear no evil; speak no evil."
Epistrophe
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
Anaphora
Author of A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
To fluctuate; to move back and forth
Vacillate
"One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
Juxtaposition
Successive words, phrases, clauses, expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure
Parallelism
Ireland's most notable poet
W.B. Yeats