Fiction!
Poetry!
Rhetoric!
Style!
Figurative Language!
100

the perspective from which the story is told (3 words)

point of view

100

the "voice" that "talks" to the reader in a poem

speaker

100

the strategies used to make an argument achieve its purpose

rhetoric

100

A description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds... may use literal or figurative language to appeal to the senses.

imagery

100

A figure of speech explaining or clarifying an idea by comparing it to something else, using the words like, as, or as though

simile

200

character who opposes the main character

antagonist

200

A group of lines in a poem

stanza

200

Words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to create emphasis

Repetition

200

A speaker's attitude toward the subject, conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and/or rhetorical choices.

tone

200

Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.

metaphor

300

when the author explicitly comments on or describes a character (2 words)

'direct' characterization

300

A rhyme that pairs sounds that are similar but not exactly the same (2 words)

slant rhyme

300

Something asked with an obvious answer, or without expecting an answer (2 words)

Rhetorical Question

300

A speaker's choice of words

diction

300

Giving a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea

personification

400

narrator that knows what every character is thinking and can move easily through time

omniscient

400

The formal organization of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

meter

400

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of which Rhetorical Device?

Alliteration

400

The arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Includes word order and sentence length and structure

syntax

400

Considered exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or an ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point.

hyperbole

500

using an object, a person, a situation, or events or actions that have both literal and metaphorical meaning in a work of literature.

symbolism

500

A poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and continues to the next line to complete its meaning

enjambment

500

the 3 rhetorical appeals a speaker can make to persuade their audience (3 words)

ethos, logos, pathos

500

The dictionary definition of a word.

denotation

500

Brief reference to a person, an event, or a place (real or fictional) or to a work of art.

allusion