Literary terms
Use image or symbols to represent ideas. For example, a broken-winged bird represents suffering.
What is symbolism in writing?
Used to describe something that lacks form, such as fog or slime.
What is amorphous?
A kind of text. For example: narrative is a type of text; it's ______ are fiction and non-fiction.
What is genre / genres?
A prefix that means not. As in abnormal, atypical, amorphous.
What is -a?
"All the world is a stage..."
What is a metaphor?
Rhetorical device that uses repetition of a key word or words to emphasize an idea and develop theme. For Example, MLK repeated I have a dream in his famous speech.
What is anaphora?
Adjective form: used to describe someone who does not show emotions.
Noun form: a system of focusing on reasoning and logic and minimalizing emotions.
What is stoic? / What is stoicism?
A poetic synonym for sad.
What is melancholy?
This root means truth--that why poets write in it.
What is ver / verse?
Life is but a POOR PLAYER that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
What is alliteration?
What is a rhetorical question?
Someone who looks on the bright side--the antonym of a pessimist.
What is an optimist?
_______ is a fancy word for werewolf. It derives from the Latin words for wolf (lykos) and turn (thrope).
What is a lycanthrope?
This adjective suffix means full of.
What is -ous?
I would DIE WITHOUT YOU my love...
What is hyperbole?
A rhetorical device that use a repetitive sentence phrase or sentence structure.
1. Over spring break I enjoyed going to the gym, relaxing with family, and sleeping in late.
2. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
What is parallel structure?
In Shakespeare's time a bark was a boat. This word is a verb for setting off on an adventure. It is the antonym of disembark.
What is embark?
A was bit by a dog. From that experience, I concluded that all dogs are mean animals that want to bite you. [This is an example of a ____________]
What is a stereotype?
This root means alone--as in soliloquy.
What is sol?
My weekend was like a cold shower tryin to get hot.
What is a simile?
A rhetorical device that uses repeated conjunctions for a particular effect. For example: The two year old did not want a snack, nor a nap, nor a juice bottle, nor a smile...she was to tired to know what she wanted.
What is polysyndeton?
It is a speech that a character makes out loud, revealing their inner conflict.
What is a soliloquy?
-are a form of prejudice.
-are based on fallacious (false) conclusions.
-are not fair.
-deprive people of their individual personality.
-justify cruel behaviors against large groups of people.
What are stereotypes harmful?
This root has two meanings: 1. Feeling 2. Disease
What is path?
What is oxymoron?