This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using the connective words like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a metaphor?
100
It is the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
It is the overall emotion created by a work of literature.
What is mood?
100
This is poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
100
This is a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
200
It is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express a strong sentiment or create a comic effect.
What is a hyperbole?
200
This is a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
200
This is the central idea or insight of a work of literature.
What is theme?
200
It is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several traditional rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet?
200
This occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
300
It is the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
It is a line of poetry made up of ten syllables, and in which every other syllable is stressed.
What is iambic pentameter?
300
It is language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
300
This is poetry that focuses on expressing private emotions or thoughts.
What is lyric poetry?
300
It is the expression of an idea in language that suggests more than one meaning.
What is ambiguity?
400
This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a simile?
400
This is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
What is alliteration?
400
This is conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
400
It is complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on or "for" a serious subject.
What is an ode?
400
It is a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, or some other field of knowledge.
What is an allusion?
500
It is a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
500
It is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is assonance?
500
This is a group of lines in a poem that forms a single unit.
What is a stanza?
500
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter is known as this.
What is blank verse?
500
It is a pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages; it can be a character, a plot, an image, or a setting.