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Poetry
Figurative Language 1
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Rhetoric
Figurative Language 2
100
The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
The beginning of a story.
What is the exposition?
100
Presenting an idea and its opposite.
What is antithesis?
100
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
When rhyming sounds are similar but not identical.
What is slant rhyme?
200
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
200
The villain, or the force opposing the main character.
What is the antagonist?
200
A question that is not meant to be answered, but is meant to provoke thought.
What is a rhetorical question?
200
The use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Poetry that does not use regular meter, rhyme, or stanza division.
What is free verse?
300
A comparison of two things that are alike in some ways but in other ways quite different.
What is an analogy?
300
Something that interrupts the chronological sequence of a work and presents something that happened earlier.
What is a flashback?
300
A work in which the characters, setting, or plot represent something else.
What is an allegory?
300
A deliberate exaggeration made for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
A pair of rhyming lines.
What is a couplet?
400
Something that stands for itself and for something beyond itself.
What is a symbol?
400
The end of the story, when the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
400
An overused or unoriginal expression.
What is a cliche?
400
Giving human characteristics to a non-human object.
What is personification?
500
A regular rhythmic pattern in poetry.
What is meter?
500
The set of ideas or emotional associations a word suggests.
What is connotation?
500
The part of the story where the conflict is developed and intensified.
What is the rising action?
500
Giving two ideas the same weight by presenting them in the same grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
500
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art, literature, or music.
What is an allusion?