Definitions
Definitions
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Examples
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100

The repeating letter or sound being the first letter of the word. 

What is alliteration?

100

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. 

What is connotation? 

100

Shield Sheafson, scourge 

What is alliteration?

100

What is guerins two mascots? 

What is the Gators and the Crusaders?

200

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning; an indirect reference. 

What is allusion 

200

The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. 

What is denotation? 

200

What hallway is the school is the most sarcastic in the school? Based on teachers

What is the blue hallway by the seniors lockers. (By Mr.S' room)?

300

Also known as Old English Poetry, encompasses verse written during the 600- year period of British history, from the mid fifth century to the Norman Conquest of 1606. Almost all of the literature of this period was orally transmitted, and almost all poems were intended for oral performance. 

What is Anglo-Saxon Poetry?

300

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

What is elegy?

300

What class does Mr.Nardiello teach?

What is AP Gov?

400

In poetry, the repetition of the sound sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be recognized.

What is assonance?

400
A long poem, typically from an ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figure or the history of a nation.

What is Epic?

400

What is St. Mother Theodore Guerin's feast day? 

What is October 3rd?

500

Any interruption or break near the middle of a line.

What is Caesuras?

500

A device defined as a two word phrase that describes an object through metaphors. 

What is kennings? 

500

Dark-Death Shadow 

What is a Kenning? 

500

What animals were at Saint Mary of the Woods that we got to pet on the freshman retreat? 

What is alpacas?