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Poetry
Rhetoric
Literary Devices
MISC.
Terminology
100
The ___ consists of seventeen syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. These poems typically present an intense emotion or vivid image of nature, which are also designed to lead to a spiritual insight.
What is a haiku?
100
The three rhetorical appeals and their purpose.
What is ethos, pathos, and logos.
100
Boom! Splat! Crash! Bang!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
When a speaker asks a question that isn't meant to be answered by the audience.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
A unit of unstressed and stressed syllables in a poem.
What is a foot?
200
A poem that cannot be scanned for fixed rhyme or meter.
What is free verse?
200
The associations or moods that accompany a word. For example: trim carries a different ________ than skinny.
What is connotation?
200
The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry or prose. Ex: "Meet Pete Green; he's as mad as a hatter."
What is assonance?
200
An appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
200
A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. For example: Hemingway's use of rain to evoke feelings of death and despair.
What is a motif?
300
A lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead.
What is an elegy?
300
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive poetic lines or sentences.
What is anaphora?
300
Providing hints of things to come in a story or play.
What is foreshadowing?
300
A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often (but not always) marked by punctuation. Ex: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere.
What is caesura?
300
A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.
What is a non sequitur?
400
A poetic form that often employs apostrophe to pay tribute to an idea, person, or object.
What is an ode?
400
A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins".
What is antithesis?
400
The use of words to express something other than and often the opposite of the literal meaning. Verbal, dramatic, and situational. . .
What is irony?
400
An exaggeration, fairly common in nonfiction prose, that bolsters an argument. "I know you will give one thousand percent defending this castle against the onslaught of murderous militants."
What is hyperbole?
400
The dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
500
A failure of logical reasoning.
What is a fallacy?
500
"Cultivated vulgarity" or "bubbly heaviness"
What is an oxymoron?
500
All the orcs ate the foot, broke the dishes, trashed the hall, beat the dogs to the shower. This sentence employs ________________, the omission of conjunctions.
What is asyndeton?
500
In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them.
What is enjambment?