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Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Poems
Authors
MLA & Writing
100
It's a comparison using like, as, or than
What is a simile?
100
the term for a code that knights lived by in Medieval times.
What is chivalry?
100
a 14 line poem with a complicated rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
100
I wrote a play about an overly ambitious warrior who gives in to peer pressure and the power of suggestion.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
when typing a research paper, use ____ person pronouns.
What is third?
200
This is giving something inhuman the characteristics of a human being.
What is personification?
200
The term for the difference between expectation and reality.
What is IRONY?
200
a long narrative poem that celebrates a hero's deeds.
What is an epic?
200
After fighting in WWII in the Royal Navy, this author wrote a novel depicting boarding school boys stranded on an island who succumb to their evil instincts.
Who is William Golding?
200
Titles of novels should be in a) bold b) quotes c) italics
What is c) italics?
300
This is an implied comparison.
What is a metaphor?
300

The term for a literary piece that uses animals to deliver a moral lesson.

What is a fable?

300
He is the father of English poetry, and famous writer in Medieval times who wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
300
Writer of literature that would shock, embarrass, or offend people in hopes of impacting necessary change for the better of society.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
300
Mentioning the source as it is used throughout your paper.
What are citations or citing?
400
What you call something that is a wild exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
400

The 3 components of the art of effective speech and writing (Rhetoric_

What are ETHOS, PATHOS, and LOGOS?

400

a type of stanza that has only 2 lines.

What is a couplet?

400
Writer of Beowulf.
Who is the Beowulf Poet? (I'll accept a Christian monk, too)
400
MLA stands for _______.
What is Modern Language Association?
500

This creates mental pictures or visual description.

What is imagery?

500
The type of work in which the objects, places and characters all stand for something else, usually on a moral level.
What is an allegory?
500
a type of poetry in which reality transcends or surpasses what science can explain.
What is metaphysical poetry?
500

This author was a propaganda writer during WWII, who quit and expressed a dislike for the practice through his or her writing.

Who is George Orwell?

500
The citation for a quote found in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare on lines 17 and 18 of scene 4 in act 2.
What is (Shakespeare 2.4.17-18)?