Imaginative Comparison
This is the subject in a metaphor that is being described.
What is the tenor?
This is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
This is something in a work of literature that stands for something in addition to itself.
What is a symbol?
This is a contrast between the literal interpretation of a statement and its implied meaning.
What is verbal irony?
This is a long, stylized narrative poem that tells of the deeds of some great hero.
What is an epic?
This is the primary method of imaginative comparison used by Mark Twain in "What Stumped the Bluejays"?
What is personification?
This is a significant pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is ceasura?
This is a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work itself.
What is an allusion?
This is a type of irony that takes the form of mock praise.
What is sarcasm?
This is a story that explains a specific aspect of life or the natural world.
What is a myth?
In a metaphor, this is what the subject is being compared to.
What is the vehicle?
This is the most common meter in English.
What is iambic pentameter?
The traveler in the poem "The Listener" seems to represent this.
What is anyone?
This is a situation in which the reader or audience is aware of a plot development of which a character in the story is not.
What is dramatic irony?
The Iliad is based on an historic war between these two cultures.
What are the Achaians/Greeks and Trojans?
This technique used by Hughes in "Mother to Son" enhances the readers' sympathy with the speaker.
What is dialect?
Patterned repetition of sound and syntax is more common in this than prose.
What is poetry?
This is the primary symbol of "Afterglow."
What is a sunset?
This is a type of obvious overstatement to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
In "Pandora," Zeus mitigates his revenge by adding this to the box.
What is hope?
This is a complex form of extended metaphor.
What is an allegory?
This is poetic lines flowing past the end of one verse line and into the next one.
What is enjambment?
Allusions are primarily based on this.
What is shared knowledge?
This is a kind of sustained verbal irony that is an overarching feature of the work and generates two layers of meaning.
What is structural irony?
What are fable and myth?