Allusions
Literary Devices
Figures of Speech
Random Vocabulary
Where am I from?
100
Allusion to beauty and desire. (mythology)
What is Adonis
100
repetition of constant sounds following different vowel sounds
What is Consonance
100
a play on words
What is Pun
100
a similarity in grammatical structure in a pair of related clauses
What is Parallel Structure
100
"I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy! My life will flow quietly away, and in my dying moments I shall not curse my maker."
What is Frankenstein
200
Man mourning for his lost love. (literary allusion)
What is The Raven.
200
Contrast through reverse parallelism.
What is Chiasmus.
200
the repetition of final words, phrases, or clauses
What is Epistrophe
200
repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of sucsesive clauses
What is Anaphora
200
So many hundred Hands in this Mill; so many hundred horse Steam Power. It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
What is Hard Times
300
The speaker is imploring to his father against the dying of the light.
What is Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.
300
Flows as lines progress and the reader's eye is forced to go onto the next line/sentence.
What is Enjambent
300
Rhetorical figure or scheme of reversing word order to make a point
What is Anastrophe
300
a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief
What is Aphorism
300
But deer, like rabbits and bears and even men, can make, concerning my race, no delicate distinctions. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried like crabs in mud. Except men, of course.
What is Grendel
400
another name for Shakesphere
What is Bard of Avon
400
Reoccurring element of literary text that serves as a unifying element.
What is Motif
400
a specific type of metaphor, using parts to represent a whole.
What is Synecdoche
400
appealing to logic
What is Logos
400
She said, "If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church." She was right. There was no way out.
What is The Stranger
500
An old testament man who's faith was tested by Satan
What is Job
500
an understatement for something that is severe as something much less severe
What is Meiosis
500
the deliberate omission of conjunctions
What is Asyndeton
500
type of diction that is overly concerned with minute details of formalisms
What is Pedantic
500
Measured by the prisoner's experience, however, it might reckoned a journey of some length; for, haughty as her demeanor was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung in the street for them all to spurn and trample upon.
What is Scarlet Letter
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