Term used to compare two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
The general term covering the various kinds of poems in which the meter and rhyme scheme follow a set pattern.
What is fixed form?
100
Disorder of matter and space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe.
What is chaos?
100
A _____ does not attempt to tell a story but rather to communicate an exact mood or feeling to the reader.
What is lyric poem?
100
Realism and Naturalism writers were influenced by which American event?
What is Civil War?
200
Identify this example “It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets”.
What is hyperbole?
200
Unrhymed verse having a regular meter, usually of iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
200
This word means calm, quiet, or still.
What is tranquil?
200
A very long poem, written in verse that tells a story.
What is an epic?
200
This literary movement has an objective narrator?
What is Realism?
300
"My mother is the rock of our family."
What is metaphor?
300
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon.
What is slant rhyme?
300
"Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough __________ for substantial things like justice, truth, and love."
What is conviction?
300
Strictly formatted 14-line poem made popular by William Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
300
This literary movement places an emphasis on characters rather than plot.
What is Realism?
400
"Even Gwen Stefani, said she couldn't doubt me."
What is pun?
400
A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet?
400
This word means in disrepair.
What is dilapidated?
400
A narrative in song, usually a saga about a past love affair or relationship.
What is a ballad?
400
This literary movement focuses on how individual human beings are at the mercy of uncontrollable larger forces that originate both inside and outside them.
What is Naturalism?
500
His parents bought him a new set of wheels.
What is synecdoche?
500
A lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
What is an epic?
500
excessive; not necessary.
What is superfluous?
500
A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
What is villanelle?
500
Naturalism takes a _____ perspective that acknowledges the inevitability of death.