Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Literary Terms II
Quotes
Literature
100

Bliss; profound joy. Seven letter word starting with the letter "r".

What is Rapture?

100

Language that appeals to the senses. 

What is Imagery?

100

To emphasize important ideas, to create an emotional impact, and to add rhyme to the writing.

What is Repetition?

100

"Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under the silent sky..."

What is Never Shall I Forget by Elie Wiesel?

100

In this piece of literature there is a psycho that becomes extremely jealous of his women because he knows her love for him wouldn't last so he strangles her to have an everlasting love with her.

What is Porphyria'a Lover by Robert Browning?

200

Anguished; grief-stricken. Eight letter word that starts with the letter "w". 

What is Wrenched?

200

A scene in a narrative or dramatic work that interrupts the present action to tell what happened at an earlier time.

What is Flashback?

200

Person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself. 

What is Symbol?

200

"In the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry...?"

What is The Tyger by William Blake?

200

An obsessed lover that comes back from the past to fulfill the promises that were made.

What is The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen?

300

Occurring at night. Nine letter word that starts with the letter "n".

What is Nocturnal?

300

A song or poem that tells a story.

What is Ballad?

300

When someone says one thing but really means something else. 

What is Verbal Irony?

300

"Wash your hands; put on your nightgown; look not so pale...!"

What is Macbeth by William Shakespheare?

300

In this piece of literature the detailed and situations of being transported to the camp where everyone was packed into one box cart with no food, restroom, or warmth.

What is On The Bottom from Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi?

400

Obstacles; obstructions. Eleven letter word that starts with the letter "i".

What is Impediments?

400

A story in which a heroic character dies or comes to another unhappy end.

What is Tragedy?

400

A comparison that is extended or developed over the course of several lines or verses.

What is Extended Metaphor?

400

"I woke, and we were sailing on as in a gentle weather;...?

What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

400

In this piece of literature the crying and suffering of the soldiers that go through battle and end up getting lost in the dead land of the battle field. 

What is The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot?

500

Disgusting; hateful. Nine letter word that starts with the letter "a".

What is Adversary?

500

A very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature of different cultures and time periods.

What is Archetype?

500

Poem in which a speaker who is not the poet addressing a listener who does not speak.

What is Dramatic Monologues?

500

"Higher still and higher from the earth thou springest like a cloud of fire;...?"

What is To A Skylark by Percy Shelley?

500

In this piece of literature known as an epic hero for his actions across the villages of facing the monster that is destroying and killing people and their homes. 

What is Beowulf by Burton Raffel?