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Poetry
Allusions
Literary Devices
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
100
an image that represents a sound
What is auditory imagery?
100
one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have
What is Achilles' heel?
100
an introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play
What is a prologue?
100
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
100
a similarity of grammatical structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
What is parallel structure?
200
a narrative or description that has a second meaning
What is allegory?
200
a person or group who achieves success or recognition after previously being unknown or neglected
What is the allusion Cinderella?
200
when a character remembers a past event that is relevant to the current action of the story
What is a flashback?
200
natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses
What is a loose(cumulative) sentence?
300
use of part to describe the whole
What is synecdoche?
300
anything that threatens or destroys its creator
What is the allusion Frankenstein?
300
a dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to him or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener
What is a soliloquy?
300
the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it
What is metonymy?
300
ellipsis of a verb or a noun used to join two or more parts of a sentence
What is a zeugora?
400
a pause in the middle of a line (due to punctuation or natural phrasing/ syntax)
What is caesura?
400
a gift that is offered with the intention of harm to the recipient
What is allusion the Trojan Horse?
400
an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the achievements of a legendary or traditional hero
What is an epic?
400
a sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences
What is anaphora?
400
a sentence that represents its central meaning in a main clause at the end; builds suspense
What is a periodic sentence?
500
a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person
What is elegy?
500
tempts a person away from safety and towards a destructive path
What is the allusion Sirens?
500
two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work
What is a couplet?
500
commas used(with no conjunction) to separate a series of words; speeds up the flow of the sentence (X,Y,Z compared to X,Y, and Z)
What is asyndeton?
500
deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses
What is an asyndeton?