Poetry
Characters
Word Play
Literary devices
Hodge Podge
100
A pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
100
Has more dimensions to their personalities - they are complex, just like real people
What are round characters?
100
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
100
someone says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
100
extended metaphor
What is conceit?
200
unrhymed poetry
What is free verse?
200
A character struggles within himself.
What is internal conflict?
200
POW ZAP BANG
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The definition of allusion
What is a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture - an indirect reference to something?
200
George Murchison to Joseph Asagai Mrs. Linde to Nora Helmer Edgar to Edmund
What is a foil?
300
4 lines of poetry
What is a quatrain?
300
Holden Caulfield (Catcher), Scout (Mockingbird) and the murderer in "Tell-Tale Heart" are examples of this
What are unreliable narrators?
300
jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
300
a work that makes fun of another piece of work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style
What is parody?
300
Definition of Anaphora
What is a repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row?
400
The definition of metonymy
What is a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. / a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
400
The author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
400
"gonna" used in everyday language.
What is colloquialism?
400
A poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, and phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
What is juxtaposition?
400
calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea
What is apostrophe?
500
A sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series
What is Polysyndeton?
500
Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes - may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples.
What is an antihero?
500
Purple curtain Three trees Her frail grace changed.
What is assonance?
500
A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage
What is a soliloquy?
500
Synonym for personification
What is anthropomorphism?