Figurative Language
Style
Theme
Rhetoric
Poetry
100

What is a comparison of two things using like or as?

Simile

100

What is one of the components of authors style?

Diction, Syntax, Grammar, or use of Figurative Language

100

What is an abstract message about the topic or concept of the literary piece?

Theme

100

What is rhetoric used for?

To persuade a reader to act a certain way or believe a certain thing

100

These devices help take a poem from the literal meaning to a deeper figurative meaning

Poetic Devices

200

Name the figurative language:

My mom has a heart of gold

Metaphor

200

Refers to the specific words an author chooses to convey ideas or tell a story

Diction

200

What is it called when a theme applies to anyone and everyone

Universal Theme

200

What are the three rhetorical appeals?

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

200

What is the difference between tone and mood?

Tone is the authors attitude while mood is the feeling a reader gets while reading a piece of literature


300

Figure of speech when an author makes a reference to a famous story, person, object or event

Allusion 

300

What is it called: how the author arranges his or her chosen words into grammatically correct phrases, clauses, and sentences

Syntax

300

What is it called when something concrete represents something abstract?

Symbolism

300

What is ethos?

Speakers ethics are emphasized 

300

What are the three types of ambiguity found in a poem?

Syntax, Semantic, and Narrative 

400

Name the figurative language

I am so hungry I could eat all the food in the house

Hyperbole

400

What is it called: how words are built, the speech sounds, how to pronounce words, and the meaning of the words?

Grammar

400

What is the difference between main idea and theme?

Main idea is what the text is mainly about while theme is the message about the topic

400

What is it called when a author provides contradiction between what appears to be and the reality of what it is?

Irony

400

What is a word, statement, or situation that has more than one meaning, sometimes resulting in confusion?

Ambiguity

500

Name the Figurative Language

Break a leg

Idiom

500

Give an example of an authors style

Formal / Informal, Conversational or direct, eloquent or cold, etc.

500

What is a recurring element such as image, word, or phrase that has symbolic importance?

Motif

500

What is the device that authors use in a parallel sentence structure where two contrasting ideas are next to each other?

Antithesis

500

What is the way a sentence is structured to make a situation unclear or misunderstood

Syntax Ambiguity