What is the repitition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
100
Foil
What is a character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero.
100
Epic
What is a long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society.
100
Apostrophe
What is addressing someone absent or dead or nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and could reply.
100
First person point of view
What is the story is told by one of its characters
200
Pun
What is a "play on words" based on the mutliple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.
200
Hyperbole
What is a figure of speech taht uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times..."
200
Couplet
What is two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.
200
Paradox
What is an apparent contradiction that is somehow true. Shock value that startles the reader.
200
Second person point of view
What is the story is told by one of its characters using second person pronouns
300
Satire
What is a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style.
300
Metonymy
What is a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it. "We requested from the crown support for our petition." The crown is used to represent the monarch.
300
Quatrain
What is a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit.
300
Free Verse
What is poetry in lines of irregular length, usually unrhymed.
300
Third person omniscient point of view
What is the author tells the story using the third person; s/he knows all and is free to tell anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling.
400
Juxtaposition
What is a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
400
Theme
What is the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
400
Denotation
What is the dictionary meaning of a word
400
Blank Verse
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter; that is, with every second syllable stressed.
400
Understatement
What is a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants.
500
Epithet
What is an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasie a characteristic quality. "Father of our coutnry" and "the great Emancipator" are examples.
500
Assonance
What is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.
500
Connotation
What is what a word suggests beyond what it expresses.
500
Enjambment
What is a line of poetry in which the grammatical and logical sense run on, without pause, into the next line or lines.
500
Paradox
What is a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd (but containing a possible truth at times), i.e., "Fair is foul and foul is fair..."