Defining Terms
An intentional exaggeration to create an effect
What is a hyperbole?
This season of the year often represents death, sleep, or hibernation.
What does winter symbolize?
This type of poem has specifically 14 lines- no more, no fewer.
What is a sonnet?
An allegorical novella in which farm animals overthrow their human owner to create an equal society.
What is Animal Farm?
"while I nodded, nearly napping"
What is an example of alliteration?
A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical
What is an allusion?
This bird often represents peace, purity, or love.
What does a dove symbolize?
The moment in a poem where the tone, focus, or idea takes a dramatic turn.
What is a shift (or volta)?
A short story where the government enforces absolute equality by handicapping the gifted, but a rebellious young man briefly defies these oppressive constraints before being killed.
What is 'Harrison Bergeron'?
The smooth shell curved gently, a pristine white shading gradually to a pearly glistening shine.
What is an example of imagery?
A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is an analogy?
When open, this part of your house may represent opportunity.
What does a door symbolize?
The basic rhythmic structure of a work of poetry.
What is meter?
This novel the wealthy and confident Emma Woodhouse, who delights in matchmaking for others but misinterprets her own feelings and those of her friends.
What is Emma?
In King Lear, Lear believes his daughter Cordelia to be disloyal, when in fact she's his only faithful daughter.
What is an example of irony?
An apparently contradictory statement which actually contains some truth
What is a paradox?
This fruit often represents temptation or loss of innocence.
What does an apple symbolize?
In poetry, this is the continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of a line or stanza.
What is enjambment?
A novel in which a man pines after a lost love, gets rich in order to impress her, and satirizes the American Dream.
What is The Great Gatsby?
"This is quite the shower we're having," said Noah as he rode on his ark
What is an example of an understatement?
Informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing.
What is a colloquialism?
Unlike the lion, this animal often represents innocence, sacrifice, or holiness.
What does a lamb symbolize?
Placing two ideas next to one another in order to accomplish a contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
A story about a man who becomes obsessed with an old man's "vulture eye," leading him to murder the old man, but his overwhelming guilt drives him to confess.
What is 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."
What is an example of a asyndeton OR parataxis?