Literary Leaps
Agonizing Alfred
Modeling Modernism
Allusions
Potpourri
100
A person, place, thing or event that stands both for itself and something beyond itself
What is a symbol?
100
Wordy
What is garrulous?
100
Many leaves
What is multifoliate?
100
"Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter/I am no prophet--and there's no great matter"
Who is John the Baptist?
100
To state or repeat again
What is reiterated?
200
Language which appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
200
A low whining or crying sound
What is a whimper?
200
Serene, calm
What is imperturable?
200
A penny for the old guy
Who is Guy Fawkes?
200
Narrow strips of wood
What are staves?
300
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
What is assonance?
300
To make or invent offhand
What is improvised?
300
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and "Do I dare?"/Time to turn back and descend the stair?
Who is Dante?
300
To state or declare forcefully
What is asserted?
400
The alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
What is rhythm?
400
Agitated, extremely excited
What is overwrought?
400
Diffused throughout every part; permeate
What is pervades?
400
This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a band but a whimper
What is "Here we go round the mulberry bush"?
400
Swollen
What is tumid?
500
A repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds.
What is consonance?
500
To have an effect, encroach, infringe
What is impinge?
500
To plead in protest
What is remonstrated?
500
"Mistah Kurtz---he dead"
What is The Heart of Darkness?
500
Showing respect, ingratiating
What is deferential?
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