Literature Terms: Poetry
This refers to the repetition of the beginning sounds of words.
What is alliteration
This is the main point of an informational text?
What is Central Idea?
This is using exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
Reference to a prior work or historical event
What is an allusion
What device is used in the following line, we must fight, I repeat, we must fight!"
What is repetition?
This device appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
This is a statement that requires support.
What is a claim?
This is a comparison that speaks of one thing as though it were another, such as "her eyes were flawless diamonds"
What a metaphor?
The central message of a literary work
What is theme?
This is the emotional association of a word.
What is connotation?
This is the repetition of the final sounds of unrhymed words
What is consonance?
This refers the the "O" in SOAPSTONE?
What is the occasion?
This is loaded language that a speaker uses when he or she wants to make an emotional appeal
What is pathos?
This is using a more gentler sounding term to replace another
What is a euphemism?
The following line is an example of what technique "..a government of the people, by the people, for the people"
What is parallelism?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds of unrhymed words
What is assonance?
This refers to the the effective and persuasive use of language.
What is the rhetoric?
This is a contradictory statement that proves to hold some truth
What is a paradox?
This is the author's attitude towards his audience or subject.
What is tone?
This term is used when the unexpected happens.
What is irony
Identify the poetic element used here: "Up on the left came he and went down into the sea"
What is internal rhyme?
This element of satire deals with saying something that means the opposite of the intended statement.
What is sarcasm?
This is writing that ridicules or pokes fun at one's shortcomings or mistakes
What is satire?
An example of parallelism that contains a contrast
What is the antithesis?
This literary device used in the following line "he'll wash away the Albatross's blood.. and make me clean" is an example of this?
What is allusion?