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Poetry Analysis
Literary Analysis
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots
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The term stanza refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry.
What is a stanza?
100
An abstract idea that is found in and developed throughout a piece of literature.
What is theme?
100
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
100
A literary device wherein the author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently unfolding in the story.
What is flashback?
100
The root word -satis-.
What is enough?
200
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.
What is personification?
200
A literary device refers to the practice of drawing attention to a fact that is already obvious and noticeable.
What is understatement?
200
The manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story.
What is point-of-view?
200
The prefix in "insensitive."
What is in-?
300
A comparison of two things not using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
300
When a word is used in a manner to suggest two or more possible meanings.
What is pun?
300
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).
What is idiom?
300
This refers to an uninterrupted and unhindered collection and occurrence of thoughts and ideas in the conscious mind.
What is stream of consciousness?
300
The meaning of the prefix in the word "indent"?
What is "in" or "into"?
400
When the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader.
What is imagery?
400
The actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing.
What is syntax?
400
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is parody?
400
A reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again.
What is archetype?
400
The meaning of the prefix in the word "dysfunctional."
What is "difficult" or "bad"?
500
A metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
To express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
What is paraphrase?
500
It is a literary device used for expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his aims or dreams
What is conflict?
500
A symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example.
What is allegory?
500
The prefix in the following word: transform.
What is trans-?