When combined with another prefix, this Greek/Latin root means "able to"...
What is -able?
100
Swish! Pop! Zoom!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
This works together with PLACE to reveal the setting of a story.
What is TIME ?
100
"The fog comes in on little cat feet".
What is METAPHOR?
200
This Greek/Latin root means "self"
What is AUTO ?
200
"Lightening danced down on its spindly legs"
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
"Concrete mixers move like elephants
Bellow like elephants"
What is SIMILE ?
300
This Greek/Latin root means "under".
What is SUB?
300
The role of the ibis as it applies to the character of "Doodle" in THE SCARLET IBIS.
What is SYMBOL or SYMBOLISM?
300
"On the pad of my thumb are whorls, whirls and wheels..."
What is ALLITERATION ?
300
Writers are influenced in four ways: By the places they've visited, the lives they've lived, the things that have happened to them and ___
What is THE THINGS THEY HAVE READ?
400
This Greek/Latin root means "against"
What is CON ?
400
The river is a frozen place, held still beneath the trees'
black lace.
What is METAPHOR?
400
This use of descriptive writing (known as IMAGERY) can often result in assisting the reader determine the emotional intensity of a story or poem. This emotional intensity is known as___
What is MOOD ?
400
A harvest mouse goes scampering by
With silver claws and silver eye
And moveless fish in the water gleam
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
What is the rhyme scheme
What is AABB?
400
This is what you get when two or more words rhyme inside a single line of poetry.
What is INTERNAL RHYME ?
500
This Greek/Latin root means "body".
What is CORP?
500
I had a hard time sleeping due to the Charley Horse in my leg.
What is an IDIOM?
500
"I can resist anything but temptation" --Oscar Wilde
This is an example of...
What is PARADOX ?
500
Originating in Japan, the poetry style known as HAIKU deals primarily with this subject matter.
What is NATURE ?
500
Meaning the exact opposite of what you say is called sarcasm. As a literary term, we know it as ___.