Grammar
This is the name for a sentence that is too long and should be broken up into shorter sentences.
Run-on
“His heart was thumping like a drum.” - 1984 by George Orwell
Simile
This is the name for a group of lines of poetry, the organizational equivalent of a paragraph in prose writing.
Stanza
Definition: The action or an instance of making a judgment about something.
Assessment
Lennie is very attached to this small animal in Of Mice and Men.
Bunnies
Should this sentence end in “I” or “me”? “The price tag was a huge surprise for my friend and ____.”
Me
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” - As You Like It by Shakespeare
Metaphor
This is a Japanese style of poem that has lines of five, seven, and then five syllables.
Haiku
Definition: Passing into and out of existence, especially in a short period of time.
Transient
This character is Romeo's wacky and impulsive friend in Romeo and Juliet.
Mercutio
This is the word for the original noun that a pronoun refers back to.
Antecedent
“The fire’s fingers reached out, devouring the pages of the forbidden books.” - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Personification
Consisting of five repetitions of an unstressed and then stressed syllable, this poetic meter was frequently used by Shakespeare.
Iambic pentameter
Definition: Continuing forever.
Perpetual
What object does Macbeth hallucinate appearing before him, while he's struggling to decide whether or not to kill the king?
A dagger
This punctuation mark connects two related independent clauses without the use of a conjunction.
Semicolon
“The soul selects her own society.” - Poem of the same title by Emily Dickinson
Alliteration
This is the name for two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter in a row.
Heroic Couplet
Definition: Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary.
Superfluous
This book ends with the line, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
The Great Gatsby
This is the name for the form of a verb when -ing is added at the end.
Gerund
“I must be cruel only to be kind.” - Hamlet by Shakespeare
Paradox
This poet was known for dark, gothic poetry, including his most famous poem, “The Raven”.
Edgar Allan Poe
Definition: A state of sadness, depression of spirits.
Melancholy
This is the doctor in The Great Gatsby whose eyes, on a billboard, look down upon the Valley of Ashes and have huge symbolic meaning.
Dr. T.J. Eckleburg