Literary Terms
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using like or as
What is a simile?
An exaggeration for emphasis/dramatic effect is what rhetorical device?
What is hyperbole?
This word means young and talented beyond one's years.
What is precocious?
In poetry, what is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem called?
What is rhyme scheme?
This part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
The phrase "Let us go forth to lead the land we love," spoken by President J. F. Kennedy uses what rhetorical device?
What is alliteration?
This word means to be excessively talkative.
What is garrulous?
In poetry, what is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit called?
What is a stanza?
What does MLA stand for?
What is Modern Language Association?
The lyric "Love is a battlefield" is an example of what literary device?
What is a metaphor?
In MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, his line: "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing..." is utilizing what rhetorical device?
What is allusion?
What is a Charlatan?
What is a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; someone pretending to be who they are not.
Give me the rhyme scheme of these lines from Countee Cullen's poem Any Human to Another:
The ills I sorrow at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat
And past the bone
What is A,B,C,C,A,B?
What are two types of verbs?
What are action verbs and state of being verbs (helping verbs or linking verbs also acceptable)?
In The Crucible, the audience knowing that Abigail is lying, but Danforth not knowing this is an example of what literary device?
What is dramatic irony?
In MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, his lines: "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia..." utilize what rhetorical device?
What is anaphora?
What is the definition of the word irresolute?
What is showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain?
What is the name of the poem that has 6 stanzas of 6 sines, untilizing the same six words at the end of those lines? This poem also ends in a triplet.
What is a sestina?
Name the 5 parts of a plot in a story in order.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
In Hamlet, when Hamlet says, "I must be cruel to be kind." What Literary Device is this?
What is paradox?
When the audience knows something that the people in the book do not, what is this called? Also give an example.
What is dramatic irony? What is Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Secret Life of Bees, etc.?
Give me the definition and part of speech for the word pusillanimous.
What is showing a lack of courage or determination and adjective?
Name 3 American Poets and One has to be a poet that we read this year.
Who was Edgar Allen Poe, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Emily Dickenson, etc.
Name the 3 types of conjunctions.
What are Coordinating, Subordinating, and Correlative Conjunctions?