A technique that creates sounds in the reader's mind. The poet may use words like sizzle, zip, and boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Lines spoken by the actors.
What is dialogue?
100
In poetry the lines act like sentences and the stanzas act like...
What are paragraphs?
100
The point the author is trying to make.
What is author's argument?
200
Water represents life, rose represents love, fire represents power, the American flag represents the USA.
What is a symbol?
200
A form of repetition where the poet repeats a specific consonant at the beginning of a word for effect.
What is alliteration?
200
A long uninterrupted speech by one actor usually to another actor.
What is monologue?
200
A structure in which the poet arranges the stanzas with a repeating or predictable pattern.
What is fixed form?
200
Authority, Emotion, Logic
What are types of arguments?
300
The hero, the outcast, the evil stepmother, the wise prophet.
What is an archetypal character?
300
Language that goes beyond the dictionary meaning of words. It is imaginative and suggestive rather than literal.
What is figurative language?
300
A situation in which the audience knows more than the characters on stage know - the audience is aware of something that adds meaning to what the character says or does without the character realizing this
What is dramatic irony?
300
Poetry that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
300
When an ad appeals to a person's feelings. Ex. "Buy life insurance - for the people who matter in your life."
What is an appeal to emotion or an emotional argument?
400
A central idea, message, or insight of a literary work.
What is a theme?
400
An exaggeration used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
Notes within a drama that directs movement of the characters to places on the stage.
What are stage directions?
400
Poetry that lacks structure.
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring
What is free form/verse?
400
When evidence is presented for a reader to make an informed decision.
What is an appeal to logic or a logical argument?
500
A reference to something from history or culture, usually a proper noun.
What is an allusion?
500
Rather, let us say, his whole body was a grimace.
What is metaphor?
500
A long speech addressed to the audience, rather than other characters in the play.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Always contains 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
500
He chose the X-box because it came with a five year warranty and three free games.