Lit Terms beginning with "A"
Poetry
It's not real
EOC here I come
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example
What is alliteration
100
the equivalent of the paragraph, but of a poem
What is stanza
100
A comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor
100
the attitude expressed by words someone uses in writing
What is tone
200
A comparison between two things for the purpose of being more clear
What is analogy
200
the type of language often used in poetry and in some prose that includes metaphors, similes, hyperboles, and many other devices.
What is figurative language
200
When human characteristics is given to a non human object
What is personification
200
an unexpected twist
What is irony
300
A thing that is accepted as truth without proof but sometimes based on some small clues
What is an assumption
300
representation through language of sense - makes you feel you can see, taste, touch, smell, or hear the object
What is imagery
300
The best definition of implied is
What is something not directly stated
300
One of the pronouns I would use if I were speaking third person point of view?
What is he she, they, it
400
to briefly mention or hint at
What is to allude
400
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may be a separate stanza in a poem
What is a couplet
400
exaggerated statements of claims not meant to be taken literally
What is a hyperbole
400
One of the pronouns I would use if I were speaking second person point of view
What is you, your
500
A story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
What is allegory
500
the person's point of view from which the poem is written
What is the speaker
500
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear. Two things are put together which shouldn't be put together
What is an oxymoron
500
The message the author wants to get across in a piece of writing
What is theme
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