Poetry Terms
This is a two-line stanza, often used to conclude a sonnet
What is a "couplet"?
A rhetorical device that repeats the same beginning sound in multiple words, such as "sweet smell" or "peter piper picked a peck"
What is "alliteration"?
This is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
What is "blank verse"?
This literary term refers to the central message or underlying meaning of a work.
What is "theme"?
The term for the reason an author writes a text, as seen in "Romeo and Juliet is a Terrible Play."
What is the "author's purpose"?
This is a four-line stanza in poetry, commonly used in a sonnet
What is a "quatrain"?
An example of this includes Juliet asking, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
What is a "rhetorical question"?
What is "soliloquy"?
The time, place, and environment in which a story takes place:
What is the "setting"?
This rhetorical device appeals to logic and reason, often used in the article "In Defense of Romeo and Juliet"
What is "logos"?
This is the term for the rhythm of a poem, especially in a Shakespearean sonnet where each line typically has ten syllables in iambic pentameter.
What is "meter"?
the literary term for when the opposite of what you expect happens, like in Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead
What is "irony"?
Romeo uses this type of speech when he says "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
What is "metaphor"?
What is "dramatic irony"?
This is the term for an argument that challenges another point of view
What is the "counterclaim"?
This is a 14-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme
What is a "sonnet"?
the term for the figure of speech that gives human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts, like in Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet says "The moon, the jealous moon"
What is "personification"?
This is the term for a major character flaw that leads to the hero's downfall, such as Romeo's rashness.
What is "tragic flaw"?
This is the literary term for something not given to readers directly—it is something that readers must figure out on their own.
What is the "theme"?
This type of rhetorical device is found when the Nurse tries to convince Juliet to marry Paris.
What is "rhetorical appeal"?
A specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is "iambic pentameter"?
a term referring to a direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as," such as "The world is a stage" from As You Like It by Shakespeare
What is a "metaphor"?
This is the term for a literary or dramatic work that ends in catastrophe, particularly in "Romeo and Juliet."
What is "tragedy"?
This is the moment of highest tension in a story when the main conflict is resolved
What is the "climax"?
This term describes a response that undermines a counterclaim
What is a "rebuttal"?