Poetry
What is a Couplet
The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people
What is Dialect
To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand
What is Foreshadowing
The sequential repetition of similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in close proximate stressed syllables
What is Alliteration
A figure of speech that combines two apparently different elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement
What is an Oxymoron
A lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of three
What is an Ode
Ordinary language, the vernacular
What is Colloquial
Any force that is in opposition to the main character
Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language
What is Hyperbole
A short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy
What is Parable
The verse form consisting of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse
The modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech
What is Rhythm
Retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative
What is a Flashback
A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
What is Irony
The practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail
What is Realism
A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns
What is Caesura
The organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work
What is Structure
A reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place
What is an Allusion
A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, or even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance; often is a universal symbol or personified abstraction
What is an Allegory
The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who many or man not share the values of the actual author
What is a Persona
What is enjambment
A direct and specific meaning, often referred to as the dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation
A recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event
What is a Motif
A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature' in particular, an extended metaphor within a poem
What is a Conceit
A work capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes
What is Onomatopoeia