This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
A dove is often a symbol of this.
What is peace or purity?
100
This is the descriptive language used in literature to re-create sensory experiences.
What is imagery?
100
This is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, for the purpose of comparison.
What is a metaphor?
100
This appeal inflates the audience's ego in order to get a favorable response. ("Choosey mom's choose Jiff.")
What is Appeal to Flattery?
200
This is a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things by suing a key word such as "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
200
This color is often a symbol for death.
What is black?
200
This is a three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables, while the second line has seven syllables.
What is haiku?
200
This is the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. Writers utilize this device to create suspense or to prepare the audience for the eventual outcome of events.
What is foreshadowing?
200
This fallacy occurs any time the sheer numbers of people who agree to something is used as a reason to get you to agree to it.
What is Appeal to Popular Opinion?
300
This is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
If the seasons of the year represent the stages of one's life, these two seasons would represent youth and fertility.
What are Spring & Summer?
300
This type of poem expresses the observations of a single speaker. Early Greeks accompanied this poem with a musical instrument called a lyre.
What is a lyric poem?
300
This is another word for the atmosphere, or the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or a passage. It may be suggested by the writer's choice of words, by events in the owrk, or by the physical setting.
What is mood?
300
This informal fallacy (false belief) occurs when an argument attempts to get one to accept or reject a claim by referring to strong positive or negative emotions.
What is Appeal To Emotions?
400
This is a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, which may be used for heightened seriousness or for comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
Passion, love, and sometimes anger is represented through this color.
What is red?
400
This type of poem tells a story in verse. The Iliad & The Odyssey are examples of this type of epic poem.
What is a narrative poem?
400
This is the writer's attitude toward the readers and toward their subject.
What is tone?
400
This is a written or spoken statement, sometimes from a public figure, sometimes from a private citizen, extolling the virtue of some product, which is used in the advertising of that product.
What is a testimonial?
500
This is the use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is the definition of symbol.
What is anything that stands for or represents something else?
500
This is a fourteen-line lyric poem focusing on a single theme. It is usually written in iambic pentameter. Shakespear & Petrarch made this poetic form popular.
What is a sonnet?
500
This is a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents the truth.
What is a paradox?
500
This is a substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.