Literary Devices
An author's word choice is also known as.
What is diction?
Geoffrey Chaucer is commonly referred to by scholars as the Father of which language?
What is English?
What is Magna Carta?
What type of language is "To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars" written in?
In an argumentative essay, this is a statement that opposes the main argument, and is often addressed and refuted to strengthen the writer’s position.
What is a counterclaim?
This term refers to the central idea or underlying message that a writer explores throughout a work, often reflecting on universal human experiences.
What is a theme?
Used her wealth to equip a field hospital she worked at as a nurse during World War I.
Considered to be the first true king of England.
Who is Alfred the Great?
In The Song of the Mud, this substance is personified as both a destructive force and a symbol of sacrifice, embodying the grim realities of World War I trench warfare.
What is mud?
These seven coordinating conjunctions, remembered by the acronym FANBOYS, are used to connect words, phrases, or independent clauses in a sentence.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
A long narrative poem, sometimes developed orally, that celebrates heroic deeds and legendary events.
What is an epic?
He likened the act of chasing down his foe in the battle field to act of pursuing a new mistress.
Who is Richard Lovelace?
England used to be called Angle Land. Prior to this, it was referred to as.
What is Albion?
In Beowulf, the hero battles three formidable foes over the course of the epic. Name these three monsters.
Who are Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon?
This term refers to the ideas, emotions, or associations that a word evokes beyond its literal meaning, such as how "home" suggests warmth and comfort rather than just a physical building.
What are connotations?
The title The Song of the Mud is an example of this literary device, as it contrasts the grim, destructive nature of mud in World War I with the typically uplifting connotation of a "song."
What is irony?
Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for this collection of stories, told by a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, which provides a vivid portrait of 14th-century English society.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
After bodies from the Bubonic Plague were exhumed, the spores of a second disease was discovered to be on the bodies. The name of this second disease.
What is Anthrax?
In Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen describes the horrors of this type of attack, vividly portraying a soldier’s death to challenge the notion that it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country.
A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with this part of speech, which serves as the object of the preposition.
What is a noun (or pronoun)?
In The Charge of the Light Brigade, the speaker’s tone or attitude towards war.
What is that war is wasteful and tragic?
The prestigious position, Alfred Tennyson was given by the English government for his superb poetic skills.
What is a poet laureate?
The names of the three Germanic Tribes who invaded England after the Romans left.
Who were the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?
The latin phrase that permeated the minds of English schoolboys as soft propaganda that it is sweet and honorable to die for one's own country.
What is "Dulce et Decorum est, Pro patria mori"?
This verb refers to the act of bringing strong emotions, images, or memories to mind through words, often used by writers to create a vivid response in the reader.
What is evoke?