The literary devices seen here: "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,/So do our minutes hasten to their end."
What is a simile?
100
The element of plot that introduces the characters, setting, and other information.
What is the exposition?
100
The two things that are being compared in
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end; "
What are waves and time?
100
An appeal to emotion is called this.
What is pathos?
100
The author's attitude towards his or his topic.
What is tone?
200
The literary devices seen here: "Death shall not brag thou wander'st in his shade."
What is personification?
200
The elements of plot that turns the conflict around or signals a change in the conflict.
What is the climax?
200
The thing given human characteristics in "Death shall not brag thou wander'st in his shade."
What is Death?
200
An appeal to logic is called this.
What is logos?
200
The process of putting a literary work in your own words to aid understanding.
What is paraphrase?
300
The literary device seen here: "Dreamers of lie... in bed asleep"
What is a pun?
300
The element of plot that brings the story to a satisfying end.
What is the falling action?
300
The thing given human characteristics in "Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth"
What is time?
300
An appeal to ethics is called this.
What is ethos?
300
Elements of a text that hint at what is to come later on.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The literary device seen here:
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me . . .
(M a c b e t h 1 . 3 . 5 8 )
What is a metaphor?
400
The element of plot that begins the conflict.
What is the inciting incident?
400
The element of a sonnet seen here:
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
What is a couplet?
400
The repetition of a grammar structure is called this.
Example: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and jogging.
What is parallel structure?
400
The literary device being used when Jay comes into the room soaking wet and says, "The weather is lovely today!"
What is verbal irony?
500
The literary device seen here:
"Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!"
What is an oxymoron?
500
The element of plot that wraps everything up.
What is the resolution or denouement?
500
The meaning of the phrase, "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east and Juliet is the sun!"
What is Juliet is bright and guides his vision?
500
The following lines are an example of this rhetorical strategy:
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality
What is logos?
500
The literary device being used in the following example:
A character finds another dead. He kills himself over the pain, but then she wakes up from a deep sleep. She then kills herself over his death.
What is situational irony?
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What is dramatic irony?