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Poetry
Characters
Word Play
Literary Devices
Hodge Podge
100
Three lines of poetry
What is a tercet?
100
A character that has only one or two personality traits is not round, but this.
What is a flat character?
100
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
100
A gross exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
100
"Why can't you all just get along?" is this certain type of question.
What is a rhetorical question?
200
When a poet writes in unrhymed meter, he or she is using this form.
What is free verse?
200
Like Orwell's Animal Farm, the characters in this type of story all represent something else.
What is an allegory?
200
POW! ZAP! BANG!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Saying one thing but meaning its opposite
What is verbal irony?
200
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a short, pithy saying, or this.
What is an epigram?
300
This term was first used to describe successive lines of rhyming verse in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in 1590.
What is a couplet?
300
Whatever works against the protagonist, like Porfiry or Raskolnikov himself, serve in this character role.
What is an antagonist?
300
Jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
300
Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent figure was popular with 20th century poets, like Whitman or Keats.
What is apostrophe?
300
In the 19th century, writers who depicted life as it really was contributed to this literary movement.
What is Realism?
400
"The leader is a lame duck who is running out of gas."
What is a mixed metaphor?
400
Tom Sawyer to Huck Finn
What is a foil?
400
Ya gotta see it to get it.
What is colloquialism?
400
You better know this term to understand the phrase, "We have too many mouths to feed!"
What is synecdoche?
500
From Old English, this type of noun is circumlocutious in its reference.
What is a kenning?
500
Practically all villains who have dark eyes, capes, and ominous voices, are simply copies of each other, or this.
What is an archetype?
500
The bee is meeting with me.
What is assonance?
500
Jonathan Swift was famous for this type of work because he often used humor and exaggeration to ridicule topical issues.
What is satire?