Many political pamphlets were written during this era.
What is REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD/AGE OF REASON?
100
The repeating of words or phrases multiple times for emphasis.
What is REPETITION?
100
Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
100
In Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte struggles against the farmer, who intends to butcher Wilbur, the pig.
What is PERSON V. PERSON?
100
Dictionary definition of a word
What is DENOTATION?
200
During this era, authors were in pursuit of the American Dream.
What is MODERNISM?
200
Moving from events happening in the present to events that happened in the past; gives reader needed information to understand current situation
What is FLASHBACK?
200
A woman has been saving painfully to buy a golden watch. Just hours after buying the watch, her daughter arrives home with the same watch as a gift for her!
What is SITUATIONAL IRONY?
200
In the myth, King Midas, the king struggles with his “gift,” which is the ability, and the curse to turn to gold everything he touches.
What is PERSON V. SELF?
200
Something that has both a literal and symbolic meaning
What is SYMBOL?
300
The Civil War brought demand for a more true type of literature during this era.
What is REALISM?
300
Clues that hint at events to come
What is FORESHADOWING?
300
Soft like a brick
What is VERBAL IRONY?
300
In the movie Shrek, Shrek struggles against all human beings, who consider him a horrid and mean outcast.
What is PERSON V. SOCIETY?
300
Ideas associated with a word
What is CONNOTATION?
400
During this era, authors wrote sermons, religious tracts, diaries, personal narratives, and religious poems.
What is PURITAN/COLONIAL PERIOD?
400
Extreme exaggeration
What is HYPERBOLE?
400
I'd like to visit that museum again as much as I'd like to gnaw off my own foot.
What is VERBAL IRONY?
400
In the movie The Perfect Storm, the crew struggles against the ocean.
What is PERSON V. NATURE?
400
Measurement of a poem's structure/rhythm; made up of how the stressed and unstressed syllables are paired together.
What is METER?
500
Edgar Allen Poe was a major author during this era.
What is ROMANTICISM?
500
Comparison between two things NOT using "like or as"
What is METAPHOR?
500
In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the killer is in the house.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
500
Brian flying the airplane after the pilot dies.
What is PERSON V. MACHINE?
500
Pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines of poetry