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Literary Terms
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A phrase that begins with a preposition.
What is a prepositional phrase?
100
Nonliteral comparisons that add "spice" to the writing and help to paint a vivid picture in the mind of the reader.
What is figurative language?
100
A repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
Fill in the blank: I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two _____ and trunkless legs of stone
What is vast?
100
The feeling apiece of literature is intended to create in the reader?
What is mood?
200
A sentence part describing the rest of the sentence in which it appears.
What is an absolute phrase?
200
A special way to end a written work that "wraps up" the piece by repeating an idea or phrase stated at the beginning.
What is a full-circle ending?
200
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Fill in the blank: Of that colossal wreck, ___________ and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
What is boundless?
200
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
300
A noun phrase identifying a person, place, or thing names in a sentence.
What is an appositive phrase?
300
Professional writers know the value of laughter; this can turn a "boring" paper into one that can quickly engage the reader.
What is humor?
300
The repetition of the same consonant sounds two or more times in short succession.
What is consonance?
300
Fill in the blanks: And __________ ____, and sneer of cold command
What is wrinkled lip?
300
Writing that comments humorously on human flaws, ideas, social customs, or institutions in order to change them.
What is satire?
400
Along with the subject, the other of two main parts of a sentence.
What is a predicate?
400
Writers use these instead of general, vague descriptions to help the reader visualize a person, place, thing of idea the writer is describing?
What are specific details for effect?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.
What is assonance?
400
Fill in the blank: stamped on these ________ things
What is lifeless?
400
Hints given by the author suggestive of what’s to come.
What is foreshadowing?
500
A noun (or pronoun) that is being acted on by a verb or preposition.
What is the object?
500
A group of words strung together to create adjectives or adverbs, which often causes the reader to "sit up and take notice."
What are hyphenated modifiers?
500
The use of several conjunctions in close succession.
What is polysyndeton?
500
Fill in the blank: Nothing beside remains. _______ ____ ________
What is round the decay?
500
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?