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Words or phrases that use description to create pictures, or images in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
100
The voice in a poem.
What is the speaker?
100
How many lines are in a quatrain?
What is 4?
100
How many iambs are in an iambic pentameter?
What is 5?
100
The explicit meaning of a word as it is used in the dictionary.
What is denotation?
200
Something in a literary work which maintains its own meaning while at the same time standing for something broader than itself.
What is a symbol?
200
A reference to a work ofliterature or to a well-known historical event, person, or place.
What is an allusion?
200
A simile, metaphor, and allusion are types of what?
What is figurative language?
200
What refer to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
What are rhythm and meter?
200
A direct comparision made between two unlike things using a word of comparison such as like or as.
What is a simile?
300
A group of related lines that forms a division of a poem or song.
What is a stanza?
300
The use of a word whose sound imitates or reinforces its meaning.
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
How many lines are in a sestet?
What is 6?
300
What type of poetry is a poem that tells a story?
What is narrative poetry?
300
The repetition of vowel sounds in a group of words close together.
What is assonance?
400
A writer's freedom to break conventional rules in order to use language playfully and creatively, usually to create mood or enhance meaning.
What is poetic license/ inversion?
400
A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics or feelings.
What is personification?
400
An epic and a ballad are form of what type of poetry?
What is narrative poetry?
400
Shakespearean and Petrarchan are two types of what type of poetry?
What are sonnets?
400
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Language that is used to describe one thing in terms of something else; language that is not intended to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
500
A writer's choice of words.
What is diction?
500
How many lines is a couplet?
What is 2?
500
Out of the following 3, which is NOT a musical device: alliteration, stanza, or assonance?
What is a stanza?
500
A poem that depends on regular verse patterns and strong rhymes for it effect.
What is a ballad?
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