The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
What is alliteration
100
All of the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word or words suggest.
What is connotation
100
A figure of speech that uses strong exaggeration or express strong emotion or to create a comic effect.
What is hyperbole
100
"apologist, the arogant, the amorous"
What is assonance?
100
God is no fixed point or central government but rather is pouerd in waves, through all things...
What is figurative language?
200
A reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
What is allusion.
200
Couplet
What is Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
200
Figurative Language
What is language that contains metaphors, similies, or images as subsititutes for plain, direct speaking
200
"sat and chatted, sat and chewed"
What is consonance?
200
And there was one administrator (The Conservative)...Of all he was most politic and least poetic...
What is irony?
300
A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or soemthing nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding.
What is apostrophe.
300
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people
What is Dialect
300
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification
300
"The statue represents Giordano Bruno, brought to be burned in the public square"
What is apostrophe?
300
"What's poetry? Is it the fruits and vegetbles and marketplace at Campo dei Fiori or the statue there?
What is figurative language?
400
Assonance
What is the reptition of certain vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
400
Diction
What is a writer's or a speaker's choice of words
400
Irony
What is a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality- between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens or between what appears to be true and what is really true
400
"If God is not the soul itself, He is the soul OF THE SOUL of the world"
What is allusion?
400
"a book of poems this unprepossessing one had written"
What is diction?
500
Consonance
What is the repitition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds.
500
A poem in which a character addresses one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not heard.
What is Dramatic Monologue
500
Poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thought, rather than telling a story.
What is lyric poetry
500
Stanza 7 is an example of...
What is dramatic monologue?
500
"And there was one administrator (The Conservative), in suit of regulation gray, who like a good tour guide with measured pace...". This was an example of figurative language known as a simile. Provide an example of your own.
A correct answer may be: "She was like a flower in the summer."