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Poetry Terms
Gen. Lit Terms
Author's Style
Author's Works
Figurative Language
100
Speaker
Who is the narrative voice of the poem?
100
Tone
What is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and the audience?
100
Elegy
What is a poem or song of lament and praise for the dead?
100
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote The Scarlett Letter?
100
Metaphor
What is a basic comparison of two generally unlike things?
200
Meter or Rhythm
What is the repetitive pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
200
Diction
What is the author's word choices?
200
Satire
What is a literary work that ridicules various aspects of human behavior?
200
Robert Louis Stevenson
Who wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
200
Oxymoron
What is a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined?
300
Allusion
What is a direct or indirect reference to a well-known historical or literary figure, place, or object?
300
Anecdote
What is a clever little story of an interesting situation relevant to the text?
300
Euphemism
From the Greek word for "good speech", what are less offensive substitutes for a generally unpleasant word such as earthly remains instead of corpse?
300
Franz Kafka
Who wrote The Metamorphosis?
300
Conceit
What is an elaborate metaphor developed at great length occuring frequently in or throughout the work?
400
Apostrophe
What is a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love?
400
Connotation
What is the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning.
400
Pun
What is a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have different meanings?
400
Alan Patton
Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?
400
Cliche
What is an overused, worn-out expression such as blushing bride or head over heels?
500
Cacophony
What are harsh sounding, jarring sounds or dissonance?
500
Epiphany
What is a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; the character's sudden revelation about life or a certain experience?
500
Parable
What is a brief story that teaches a moral lesson?
500
Joseph Conrad
Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
500
Synecdoche
What is a metaphor where part of something is used to signify the whole such as all hands on deck?