Terms
Language Skills
Poems & Poets
Terms Again
Writing No No's
100
The repetion of the initial consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
100
The acronym for the forms of the verb "to be."
What is wwaabbi?
100
A fixed form of poetry written in iambic pentametre.
What is a sonnet?
100
When a poet chooses a word that sounds like the thing it stands for.
What is onomatopeia?
100
The last page of an MLA formatted essay which lists references used.
What is Works Cited?
200
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The pronoun case used to start a sentence.
What is subjective?
200
The question no student should ask his teacher.
What is "Did I Miss Anything?"
200
An expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words.
What is an idiom?
200
A type of writing explaining something and where using "I" or "you" should not be used.
What is expository?
300
A reference to Greek or Roman myths.
What is a classical allusion?
300
Something that begins with words like up, in, on, of and ends with a noun or pronoun.
What is a prepositional phrase?
300
The "shift" in a sonnet.
What is a volta?
300
The term given to the "feeling attached to a word."
What is connotation?
300
The proper tense to use when writing an essay about literature.
What is present tense?
400
A poem or story with two distinct levels of meaning, one superficial and the other symbolic.
What is an allegory?
400
A type of parallelism problem involving the repositioning of joining words.
What are correlative conjunctions?
400
"The wedding guest, he beat his breast" an example of this term.
What is internal rhyme?
400
Unrhymed iambic pentametre
What is blank verse?
400
The sentence in an essay which proposes what the essay will be about.
What is thesis statement?
500
When a writer refers to an object or idea by subsituting the name of another object closely associated with it. ( "crown" for monarchy)
What is metonymy?
500
An ing word used as a noun.
What is gerund?
500
A poem written to mourn the loss or death of someone.
What is an elegy?
500
When the speaker of a poem directly addresses a person or entity not normally spoken to as if it were present and listening.
What is apostrophe?
500
The term for putting together ideas into a new or unique product or plan.
What is synthesis?
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