Figurative Lang
Poetry
Diction and Syntax
Dramatic Conventions
Characters
100
a poetry paragraph... 4 lines with a similar idea
What is a quatrain?
100
Pictures created with words and comparisons that are either visual or auditory, textural, taste
What is imagery?
100
Juliet makes a decision to take the poison that will make her appear as if she is dead. Hamlet decides to let "the play be the thing, wherein he can catch the conscious of the king."
What is the denouement?
100
Harry Potter only reports to readers moments where he is present. If Harry isn't there, then readers do not know what happened during that moment.
What is third person limited?
200
"I see dead people." Authors have characters speak to inanimate things because those inanimate things will not tell the character's secrets.
What is apostrophe?
200
"When your legs don't work like they used to before... And I can't sweep you off of your feet..."
What is ballad?
200
How the author feels and how he or she, in turn, want the reader to feel. Usually described in a one word adjective.
What is tone/attitude?
200
I walked out of Titanic thinking..."Really? Wasn't there enough room on the door for both of them? Jack didn't have to die.
What is catharsis?
200
Hamlet's tragic flaw that brings about his downfall is his thought processes. He simply thinks too much and therefore procrastinates. It seems as though fate has also struck Hamlet a very tough deal; losing one's father and watching your mother remarry so fast after the death seems extra harsh. Hamlet's fight with Laertes ends his life. These points in the play create...
What are Aristotle's elements of a tragedy?
300
"It is only a flesh wound." I underestimate the wound in order to draw attention to the ridiculous nature of the thing or item. It creates humor also.
What is a litote?
300
You are my hero! Let me write a long, narrative poem about you.
What is an ode/epic?
300
Society's definition of a word, with emotional attachments. (sometimes pride or profanity). Authors use these words on purpose to create tension or emotion in their readers.
What is connotation?
300
I am an anxiety-ridden teen with a foot in the world of childhood and the world of adulthood. I do not know who I want to be, only that I don't want to be a "phony" to the rest of the world. Just call me Holden. I think I'll hang out in NYC this week, just to have some experiences and decide if I want to grow up.
What is a Bildungsroman?
400
Overexaggeration in order to help a reader see how "ridiculous" something is
What is a hyperbole?
400
My heart breaks at your passing. I think I'll immortalize you in verse.
What is an elegy?
400
Patterns of repetition, parts of speech patterning, chiasmus (mirror image sentences) all used to create a pattern in sentence structure
What is syntax?
400
"...fall about me like dead leaves...Oh Laura, I didn't mean to leave you behind me. All at once, my sister touches my shoulder...I go to the movies or a bar, anything to put you behind me..." Tom Wingfield from Glass Menagerie
What is stream of consciousnesses?
400
Ruby and Ada Linton and Heathcliff Henry and Victor Hamlet and Laertes Tom Wingfield and Jim
What are foil characters?
500
"I saw three sails on the horizon." Where the part represents the whole.
What is synecdoche?
500
In a sonnet, 8 lines followed by 6 and ending with a rhyming couplet are called...
What is a sestet?
500
The shape of the writing of a selection matches and makes logical sense, is similar to the content that the author is discussing.
What is form and content connection?
500
"Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I..." Hamlet likes to talk to himself because his conscious judges him enough.
What is soliloquy?
500
"I should have been your Adam, but instead I am your fallen angel." I appear to be a villain, but underneath I have a good heart.
What is a Byronic Hero?
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