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Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
100
A figure of speech that replaces the intended word with a related word that is symbolic
Metaphor
100
The feeling that writing creates
Mood
100
A statement that includes opposite meanings but still makes sense
Paradox
100
Giving animals or objects the characteristics or qualities of humans
Personification
100
The main idea of literary work
Theme
200
Group of four lines
Quatrain
200
Repeated words or phrases that create mood or give importance to something
Refrain
200
A pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Rhythm
200
Repeating sound by using words whose beginning sounds are the same
Alliteration
200
A word or phrase that has meaning different from the actual meaning, such as idioms, metaphors, and similes
Figure of Speech
300
When a character in the play is head by the audience but not by the other characters
Aside
300
A simple song that often uses a refrain, sometimes uses rhyme and is passed from person to person
Ballad
300
The high point of interest or suspense in a story or play at which major change occurs
Climax
300
The speech of a particular part of a country or of a certain group of people
Dialect
300
A story from folklore featuring characters who actually lived or real events of places
Legend
400
A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter
Sonnet
400
An author's way of writing
Style
400
A play that ends with the suffering or death of one or more of the main characters
Tragedy
400
The way a writer expresses idea through style, form, content, and purpose
Voice
400
A song story written in verse, usually involving a heroic figure
Epic
500
Dealing with shepherds or country life
Pastoral
500
Detail, plot pattern, character type, or theme found in the literature of many different cultures
Archetype
500
The history of a word shown by tracing its development from its first use in a language
Etymology
500
Extreme exaggeration that shows something is important
Hyperbole
500
Five two beat sounds in a line of poetry where the second syllable is stressed in each pair
Iambic Pentameter