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Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Irony
Shakespeare
Figurative Language
100
the narrative voice of the poem
What is the speaker?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker or narrator towards a thing or idea in the text
What is tone?
100
we know something they don't know
What is dramatic irony?
100
a short speech that someone on the stage is not supposed to hear
What is an aside?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produces insight
What is a metaphor?
200
two consecutive rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect
What is diction?
200
what is stated is the opposite of what is meant
What is verbal irony?
200
a long speech meant to give the impression of overhearing the character's thoughts
What is a soliloquy?
200
a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, it does not
What is a paradox?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative meaning, including social or emotional connections
What is connotation?
300
an occasion in which events turn out very differently than expected or appropriate
What is situational irony?
300
a Shakespearean sonnet has three of these
What is a quatrain?
300
a figure of speech in which one thing is used to refer to something with which it is closely associated
What is metonymy?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate
What is apostrophe?
400
an exaggeration or deliberate overstatement
What is hyperbole?
400
pervasive irony created by a structural feature such as a naive protagonist whose viewpoint is consistently wrong, shared by neither author nor reader
What is structural irony?
400
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
400
a contradiction of terms
What is an oxymoron?
500
the continuing of a syntactic unit from one line to the next without pause
What is enjambment?
500
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of poetry or a speech
What is anaphora?
500
when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind in general
What is cosmic irony?
500
the appearance of truth
What is verisimilitude?
500
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
What is synecdoche?