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Poetry
Story Structure
Miscellaneous Literary Gems
Words, Sounds, and Sentences
Characters
100
A stanza containing four lines.
What is quatrain
100
When the narrator is an observer who relates the story using third-person pronouns such as "he," "she," and "it." Many or all characters' thoughts are explicitly expressed through this all-knowing vantage point.
What is point of view (3rd person omniscient)
100
Associated with the internal mind, and thus with bias and relative truth.
What is subjectivity
100
Sentences, clauses, or phrases with repetitive syntactic structure, often a stylistic choice.
What is parallelism
100
A character that undergoes a significant emotional, ideological, or spiritual transformation.
What is a round character
200
A phrase, line, or lines that recur throughout a poem or song.
What is refrain
200
The culmination of a plot.
What is resolution
200
When something stands for or suggest something larger and more complex --often an idea or a range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and practices.
What is symbolism
200
The repetition of conjunctions (such as and) in syntactic structure, often a stylistic choice.
What is polysyndeton.
200
A monologue delivered by a character while alone that reveals inner thoughts, emotions, or other information.
What is soliloquy
300
A poem consisting of 14 lines. This kind of sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet (rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg). Usually in iambic pentameter.
What is Shakespearean/English sonnet
300
The part of a work that follows the inciting moment (the event that gives rise to conflict) and precedes the climax or the crisis. During the rising action, the plot becomes more complicated and the conflict intensifies.
What is rising action
300
The attitude of the author toward the reader, audience, or subject matter.
What is tone
300
A word coined by combining two other words, encompassing the original meanings of both components parts.
What is portmanteau
300
An established, instantly recognizable character type to whom the reader ascribes specific characteristics by virtue of convention.
What is a stock character
400
The persona "narrating" a poem.
What is speaker
400
The combination of place, historical time, and social milieu that provides a general background for the characters and plot of work.
What is setting
400
A play on words that capitalizes on a similarity in spelling and/or pronunciation between words that have different meanings.
What is a pun
400
A character in a tragedy that evokes both pity and terror. A morally elevated character that suffers a change in fortune from happiness to misery because of his or her own mistaken action or choice.
What is tragic hero
500
A grouped set of lines in poem, usually physically separated from other such clusters by a blank line.
What is stanza
500
A second story that is complete in its own right within the greater context of a work's primary plot.
What is subplot
500
POETRY QUESTION!! A group of three lines of a verse.
What is tercet
500
Words similar in meaning.
What is synonym
500
STORY STRUCTURE QUESTION!! The statement(s), express or implied, that a work seems to be making about its subject. Generally, the main idea or message in a work.
What is theme