A technique that creates sounds in the reader's mind. The poet may use words like sizzle, zip, and boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
dialogue is a conversation between two opposing characters.
What is dialogue?
100
paragraphs are called stanzas
What are paragraphs called in poetry?
100
The point the author is trying to make.
What is author's argument?
200
a symbol is a deep representation of a certain action or object.
What is a symbol?
200
A form of repetition where the poet repeats the first letter of a word for effect.
What is alliteration?
200
A long 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
the moral or lesson learned in a story
What is a theme?
400
An exaggeration used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
Notes withing 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?
400
When evidence is presented for a reader to make an informed decision.
What is an appeal to logic or a logical argument?
500
the turning of a story usually known as the max
what is a climax?
500
comparing two things without using like or as
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 5 year warranty and 3 free games.