This is a short poem with a brief, witty ending. It can be a terse or witty statement.
What is an epigram?
100
This is an elaborate, formal lyric poem which pays homage to someone or something.
What is an ode?
100
This word refers to word choice.
What is diction?
100
a comparison that is maintained and further developed throughout the text.
What is an extended metaphor? (or literary conceit)
100
This was the king who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold. A person who is very successful or acquires riches is said to have his touch.
Who is King Midas?
200
This type of sentence expresses emotion and provides emphasis.
What is an exclamatory sentence?
200
Serious drama in which a likeable but flawed protagonist ends up having a downfall.
What is a tragedy?
200
This word refers to the specialized and often technical language and vocabulary of a particular group.
What is jargon?
200
The contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
200
This creature was half bull and half man and was housed in the Labyrinth. Theseus kills it/him.
What is minotaur?
300
This is a concise, pointed statement that reveals a truth or principle. It is similar to a proverb.
What is an aphorism?
300
A long narrative poem about a legendary hero.
What is an epic?
300
This refers to the manner in which a writer constructs a sentence and how it affects a reader's understanding.
What is syntax?
300
A statement that initially seems contradictory and nonsensical but upon further examination, makes sense.
What is a paradox?
300
One of the rivers of Hades. Dead souls had to cross it. To swear by this river was to make an unbreakable oath.
What is The River Styx.
400
A word or group of words that equals or extends the noun or pronoun that precedes it. For example: Shakespeare, the greatest Renaissance author, is credited with writing 37 plays."
What is an appositive?
400
This refers broadly to any text witha rural setting; traditionally it refers to the mode of poems about sheperds and country living.
What is Pastoral.
400
The use of something more familar to explain something new and/or complex. The point of comparison is used to demonstrate the similarities between the two entities.
What is analogy?
400
This is the opposite of anaphora in the sense that the final words or phrases are repeated in successive lines or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
400
Odysseus creates this object to secretly house Greek soldiers and take his enemies by surprise.
What is The Trojan Horse.
500
•"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."
What kind of sentence is this?
What is a periodic sentence?
500
This N word is a desire for the past, usually a condition that cannot be duplicated.
What is nostalgia?
500
When the subject of a sentence is acted upon instead of committing an action. For example: The snowball was thrown by Eric.
What is the passive voice?
500
The deliberate omission of conjunctions. For exampe: I came, I saw, I conquered.
What is asyndeton.
500
this was the meeting place in the court of Camelor for King Arthur and his knights. It was constructed a certain way so there would be no preferential treatment for any one knight.