A fourteen lined poem with a single theme, usually rhythm of iombic pentameter.
What is a Sonnet?
100
Speech of educational native speakers. More formal then collequial English. Not as elevated as formal English.
What is general diction?
100
As the flood waters abated, Noah sends out a dove in search of signs that there is land; it returns back with an olive branch. This symbolizes peace.
What is a Dove and an Olive Branch?
100
This book was written in 1854 during the time in which the social consequences of industrialization and urbanization are perhaps most persuasively depicted.
What is Hard Times by Charles Dickens?
200
There are three forms of this type of poetry, Pindaric, Horatian, and Irregular.
What is an Ode?
200
"That book gave me such a powerful feeling within my heart"
What is a catharsis?
200
someone's instence on being repaid
What is a pound of flesh?
200
This idea called,"______", which is our need for meaning is greater than the ability of the universe to be meaningful.
What is absurdism?
300
Contains repetition in which line one is repeated as 6, 12, 18; Line 3 is repeated as lines 9, 15, 19
What is a Villanelle?
300
Descriptive, appealing to senses and relating to concrete information.
What is literal imagery?
300
comic book character. "man who speaks softly gets beat with a big stick."
What is Milquetoast?
300
Wrote his first novel in 1939 and seemed to dislike women.
Who is Albert Camus?
400
This type of poem contains a shifting of characteristics, dialogue, and significant point of views of the speaker
What is a Narrative Poem?
400
A figure of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary or opposite.
What is a litotes?
400
a monster with the lions head, a goats body, and a serpents tail that breathe's out power.
What is Chimera?
500
The topic contains narrative of adventure or intrigue; describes a dramatic or exciting episode
What is a Ballad
500
A use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another is called Euphemism. True or False?
True
500
a dog usually represented as having 3 heads, that guards the entrance to the infernal regions.