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Poetry Terms
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BONUS
100
A pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet
100
a work that makes fun of another piece of work
What is parody?
100
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
100
Shakespeare wrote Much Ado in this century
What is the 16th century?
100
the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
200
Unrhymed poetry
What is free verse?
200
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get"
What is cliche?
200
POW ZAP BING
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The Genre of Frankenstein
What is Gothic?
200
a short story that teaches a moral
What is a parable?
300
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
what is enjambment?
300
the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition
What is connotation?
300
a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer
What is a rhetorical question?
300
a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice is held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. Pride and Prejudice would qualify as this.
What is satire?
300
a speaker or writer’s choice of words
What is diction?
400
the narrative voice of the poem
What is the speaker?
400
"It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in their admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!"
What is imagery?
400
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text
What is tone?
400
A protagonist and antagonist of our novels
What is Dr. Frankenstein and the creature What is Lady Catherine and Elizabeth What is Beatrice and Don John etc...
400
a reference to another piece of literature
What is allusion?
500
exaggerated figure of speech
What is hyperbole?
500
a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.
What is symbol?
500
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
500
Brave New World is this type of novel
What is Dystopian?
500
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms)
What is formal?