A songlike poem that tells a story, often a story of betrayal, death or loss.
What is a ballad?
100
A figure of speech in which or word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
100
Events listed in the order in which they occurred.
What is Chronological order?
100
(law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law
Juristiction
100
A smaller plot.
What is a Subplot?
200
A poem that tells a story or related events.
What is a narrative?
200
A figure of speech used to describe something that cannot be taken literally, often with the word "like".
What is a simile?
200
A list of directions.
What is Sequential order?
200
A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true.
Argument
200
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
What is GUMS?
300
The narrator of the poem. He or she who may be speaking in the poem.
What is the speaker?
300
-Dramatic Irony
-Verbal Irony
-Situational Irony
What are the three types of irony?
300
This pattern is used to show the different causes and effects of various conditions.
What is Cause and Effect?
300
Constituting a grab-bag category
Miscellaneous
300
Also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought.
What is a simple sentence?
400
-Ballad
-Lyric
-Narrative
-Sonnet
What are the four type of poems?
400
An exaggeration of the truth, usually meant to be humorous or funny.
What is a hyperbole?
400
A pattern arranges information according to how two or more things are similar to or different from one another (or both).
What is a Compare and Contrast pattern?
400
Relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state.
Intrastate
400
Contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator. The coordinators are as follows: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
What is a compound sentence?
500
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
What is internal rhyme?
500
The repetition (repeating) of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words that are next to each other or near each other to create a feeling or mood.
What is alliteration?
500
A pattern divides information into two main sections, one that describes a problem and one that describes a solution.
What is the Problem-Solution pattern?
500
A monologue or speech to oneself.
Soliloquy
500
Has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses and always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which.