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Literary Terms
Poetry Devices
Types of Poetry Forms
Literary Devices
Writing Styles
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Author's Purpose
What is The author's intent either to inform/teach, to entertain, or to persuade/convince the audience
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Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually we on the same or adjacent lines.
What is Alliteration?
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A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend which often has a repeated refrain
What is Ballad?
100
A person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again.
What is Archetype?
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A type of expository writing that uses the five senses to paint a picture for the reader. This writing incorporates imagery and specific details.
What is Descriptive writing?
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Imagery
What is A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell.
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Onomatopoeia
What is "BOOM", "SLAP", and "POW" an examples of?
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A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five morae, usually containing a season word
What is Haiku
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Assonance
What is the repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase?
200
Writing in which the author tells a story. The story could be fact or fiction
What is Narrative writing?
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a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work;
What is theme?
300
A contradictory statement.
What is Irony?
300
A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines which usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes.
What is Sonnet?
300
Chiasmus
What is a figure of speech containing two phrases that are parallel but inverted to each other?
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Persuasive writing
What is a writing style where the writing states the opinion of the writer and attempts to influence the reader?
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Sonnet
What is A formal 12 line poem consisting of a strict rhyming scheme (abab, cdcd, efef, gg) & iambic pentameter
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Indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole. Example: All hands on deck
What is Synecdoche?
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Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.
What is Acrostic?
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Synesthesia
What refers to a medical condition wherein one or many of the sensory modalities become joined to one another, in literature it refers to the depiction of a strong connection, link or bond between the different senses?
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Writing in which author’s purpose is to inform or explain the subject to the reader.
What is Expository?
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Diction
What is The author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
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The continuation of the logical sense — and therefore the grammatical construction — beyond the end of a line of poetry. This is sometimes done with the title, which in effect becomes the first line of the poem.
What is Enjambment?
500
A line consisting of 10 syllables of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables (Example-Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
What is Iambic Pentameter?
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Based around the appearance or proximity to being real, or the truth. It was a large part of the work of Karl Popper, and can be used in a variety of different ways to describe something, as well. It is a way of implying the believability or likelihood of a theory or narrative. However, just because something can be described as having Verisimilitude does not mean that it is true, only that merely appears to or seems to be true.
What is Verisimilitude?
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The writer is able to incorporate his own ideas into the story. Instead of just presenting the facts, the writer can let his own opinions come out in the writing. For example, a story written in a first-person technique would have the word "I" worked in throughout the text.
What is First-person?