It's a comparison between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as," as in "our love is like a red rose."
What is a simile?
100
It's the repetition of initial consonant sounds in consecutive words, as in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
100
It's a poetic form that typically has 14 lines, a fixed meter and rhyme scheme, and ends in a rhyming couplet.
What is a sonnet?
100
It's the simple subject in the sentence, "Alia killed the Baron."
Who is "Alia"?
100
It's the name given to the following syntactical error: "A bright summer day."
What is a sentence fragment?
200
It's an implied comparison between two dissimilar things NOT using "like" or "as," as in "that running back is a machine."
What is a metaphor?
200
It's the repetition of vowel sounds, as in "it was fate that the gate braided late with a hated mate on a date."
What is assonance?
200
It's one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
What is a stanza?
200
It's the simple subject in the sentence, "Bill and Mary, my best friends from high school, are on tour with their band, The Amazing Elephant Taming Dirt Farmers from Hell."
Who are "Bill," "Mary"?
200
It's the name given to the following syntactical error: "I am a tall man so I can reach cans on the top shelf and I don't need your help and I'm hungry now so please excuse me."
What is a run-on sentence?
300
It's a "word picture" or a description that appeals to the senses, as in "the sun-dappled hills were bedded in a thicket of clouds like a spring faun, late afternoon, in tangled brown brush."
What is imagery?
300
It's the term for a word that is the same as the sound it describes, as in "BOOM," "CRASH," "GRUMBLE," etc.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
It's a recurring image, symbol, idea, theme, or subject in a work of literature or art.
What is a motif?
300
It's the simple subject in the sentence, "Go get me a copy of the newspaper."
Who are "you"?
300
It's the name given to the following syntactical / punctuation error: "The coin rolled down the street, I ran after it."
What is a run-on sentence / comma splice?
400
It's a reference in a literary work to another work of art or historical event, figure, etc. (There are a lot of these in Flannery O'Connor.)
What is an allusion?
400
It's anything that has to do with sound in a poem or literary work; this includes meter and rhyme.
What is rhythm?
400
It's the generalized meaning of a literary work.
What is a theme?
400
It's the simple subject in the sentence, "What's wrong?"
What is "what"?
400
It's one of the possible corrections that can be made to the following sentence: "Judy, William's eldest daughter, who took a liking to the guitar early on and has since become a celebrated jazz musician."
What is (various answers).
500
It's the act of giving human characteristics to something that is not human, as in "the plant sprouted from the soil and, yawning, reached for the sun."
What is personification?
500
It's an external example of an internal reality.
What is expressionistic detail?
500
It's a deliberate use of exaggeration for rhetorical effect, as in "I'm so hungry I can eat a horse!"
What is hyperbole?
500
It's the correct form of the verb in the sentence, "My vintage records and this limited edition compact disk, the likes of which has never been seen before, (is / are) going to be sold for mad loot."
What is "are"?
500
It's one of the possible corrections to the following sentence: "The carpenter brought the wrong hammer, he didn't get enough sleep."