Vocabulary
Poetry Terms
AP Termanology
Books
Greek Mythology
100
A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two different things
What is a simile?
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
A reference to another work or famous figure.
What is Allusion?
100
The one who bears the mark of A on his/her chest and hides from everyone else
What is Arthur Dimmesdale?
100
goddess of wisdom, war, handicrafts, liberal arts
Who is Athene?
200
The contrast between what a person says and what he/she means
What is verbal irony?
200
a poem that tells a story, which are often used in songs because of their rhyme.
What is a Ballad?
200
A pair of lines that end in rhyme
What is Couplet?
200
The new/changed meaning of the scarlet A
What is able?
200
River of Fire
What is Phlegethon?
300
The prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work or part of a work
What is mood?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
The words an author chooses to use.
What is Diction?
300
The only person that did not cry at mama's funeral
Who is Meursault?
300
Fire
what gift did Zeus hold back from humans?
400
A figure of speech that creates an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another dissimilar thing
What is metaphor?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
400
Captain Walton
who wrote the letters?
400
thunderbolts
What is Zeus's most powerful weapon?
500
A composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content
What is parody?
500
a poem of an expressive thought or idea made up of 14 lines, each being 10 syllables long. Its rhymes are arranged according to one of the schemes – Italian, where eight lines called an octave consisting of two quatrains which normally open the poem as the question are followed by six lines called a sestet that are the answer, or the more common English which is three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet.
What is a sonnet?
500
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is satire?
500
He feels it could perhaps be a cautionary tale to help warn Walton of the evil of being obsessed in the pursuit of knowledge.
Why does Victor agree to tell his story
500
Zeus and Hera's son who took pleasure in fighting
Who is Ares?