Lit Term
What it means to be human
What is theme
High point of the story
What is climax
Main character of the story who is a positive force
What is protagonist
What is a quatrain?
An over exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Author's attitude toward the subject of the work
What is tone
Series of events in a story
What is plot
What is rhyme?
A 14-line poem with a interlocking rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
Word pictures.
What is imagery?
A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change
What is a satire
A long narrative poem which recounts the deeds of a heroic character
What is an epic
How the materials of a work are organized
What is structure?
The use of sentence structure that stretches between lines.
What is enjambment?
The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line poetry.
What is meter?
Language spoken by a certain group of people
What is vernacular
A recurring word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout the work
What is a motif
A fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality
What is a stereotype
A situation that appears to self-contradict but actually makes sense.
What is a paradox?
When rhyme occurs inside of a line.
What is internal rhyme?
Device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence
What is Epanalepsis
An adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality
What is an epithet
What is parallelism?
A system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line.
What is scansion?
A group of unstressed and stressed syllables in a verse.
What is a poetic foot?