The perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100
who the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
100
a character that by contrast exalts that protagonist.
What is a foil character?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is an analogy or metaphor?
200
Groups of lines in traditional poetry
What are stanzas?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
words that describe nouns
What are adjectives?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
200
language that is specific to a vocation or organization.
What is jargon?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
Words that describe verbs
What are adverbs?
300
level of language that is serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of a character or an experience is used to represent the whole. Example "Capital Hill decided today to ban texting while driving".
What is metonymy?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
400
a noun made from a verb by adding "ing".
What is a gerund?
400
short, to the point.
What is terse?
400
seemingly contradictory statement.
Example: we always hurt the ones we love.
What is a paradox?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
500
The repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.
Example: first and last or odds and ends
What is consonance?
500
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
500
extreme pride that is usually the downfall of the protagonist.
What is hubris?
500
a short quotation or verse that precedes a poem (or any text) to set the tone, provide a setting, or give other context for the poem.