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Poetry Terms
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6th Period Trivia
100
When a sentence continues onto the next line

What is enjambment?

100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100

A story in a story

What is a frame narrative?

100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100

Something that Ava has in her made-for-Derrick poem

What is cheese?

200

When a sentence has an interruption (period, em-dash, comma, white space) mid-line

What is caesura?

200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200

Two tensions in any piece and the difference between them

What are acute and chronic?

200
Prose made up of flowing, "pretty" language

What is lyrical?

200
Joseph Oransky knows the lore for this defunct K-pop girl group.

What is Loona?

300

Name three common forms of poetry

Sonnet, haiku, free verse, limerick, villanelle, ballad, ode, elegy, etc.

300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300

The moment in a plot in which a character makes a decision and the tension breaks.

What is the climax?

300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
A uniform infraction that Mrs. Derrick frequently cites in 6th period.

What are hoops?

400

The unique layout of a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet

Includes an octet and sestet; a question and answer

400

a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.

What is an anecdote?

400

The three types of 3rd person narration and their differences

What are omniscient, limited, and objective?

400
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
400

Jacob's favorite book to read during class time

What is his car's owner's manual?

500

The key characteristic of iambic pentameter. Three part answer. 

Five groups of two syllables (unstressed/stressed)

500
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
500

Name a novel that utilizes a flashback or flashbacks to aid in character development. Then, say a 3-mvt thesis for the prompt.

Varies.

500

Casual language from a specific geographical location or culture

What is vernacular or colloquial?

500

The government name for Velpheta

What is Sebastian?