What is the underlying ideas that the author illustrates through characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc.
100
As an example, "I knew she was bad when she walked over and offered him a bite of her apple."
What is a biblical allusion?
100
A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in poetic verse
What is meter?
100
a unit of a poem similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem
What is stanza?
100
a plot that explores ideas different from the main storyline
What is a subplot?
200
Sentence structure that provides a mirroring effect through similar syntax or phrasing in a poem or passage
What is parallel structure?
200
Identify the meter.
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet, the sun."
What is iambic pentameter?
200
one foot
What is monometer?
200
2 lines of poetry
What is a couplet
200
this sonnet has a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains with a final couplet: abab cdcd efef gg.
What is English or Shakespearean Sonnet?
300
a work that functions primarily on a symbolic level
What is an allegory?
300
the basic building block or unit of measurement in poetry
What is a foot?
300
four feet
What is tetrameter?
300
3 lines
What is tercet?
300
the narrator who can see into the minds of some but not all of the characters. This narrator usually sees through the eyes of one major or minor character.
What is limited omniscient third-person narrator?
400
an ironic figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the true case
What is understatement?
400
a foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is a dactyl?
400
a metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable, as in the word "summer"
What is trochaic or trochee?
400
8 lines of poetry
What is octave?
400
a method of analysis involving careful step-by-step explication of a poem or passage in order to understand how various elements work together.
What is close reading?
500
Overweening pride, outrageous behavior, or the insolence that leads to one's ruin. In Greek vocabulary, this word is the antithesis of moderation
What is hubris?
500
A Latin phrase meaning "in the midst of things" that refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context or preceding actions
What is "in medias res"?
500
seven feet
What is heptameter?
500
5 lines of poetry
What is cinquain?
500
a narrative mode or genre that employes exotic adventure and idealized emotion rather than realistic depictions of characters and actions.