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Metaphor
What is a comparison between two things. (e.g. The star was a diamond)
100
The leading character or a major character in a drama
What is the Protagonist (e.g. Harry Potter)
100
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is Onomatopoeia (e.g. BAM!)
100
Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
What is Prose (e.g. The Scarlet Letter)
100
The action of repeating something
What is Repetition (e.g. Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee)
200
Personification
What is the giving of human-like characteristics to non-human things (e.g. The trees fingers moved in the distance)
200
The thing you'd least expect
What is Irony (e.g. A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets)
200
A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
What is Narration (e.g. Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption)
200
The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
What is Parallelism (e.g. "New roads; new ruts." (G. K. Chesterton))
200
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words
What is Rhyme (e.g. Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though.)
300
Logos
What is the use of argument in rhetoric. (e.g. "Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic." (Charles S. Peirce))
300
The hinting of future events.
What is Foreshadowing (e.g. In the opening of The Wizard of Oz, set in Kansas, the transformation of Miss Gulch into a witch on a broomstick foreshadows her reappearance as Dorothy's enemy in Oz.)
300
Knowing everything
What is Omniscient (e.g. Some people believe that God is omniscient)
300
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is a Paradox (e.g. You can save money by spending it.)
300
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
What is a Pun (e.g. A good pun is its own reword)
400
Myth
What is a legendary fictional tale (e.g. Heracles)
400
A form of creative nonfiction in which an author recounts experiences from his or her life.
What is a Memoir (e.g. Memoirs of a Geisha)
400
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
What is an Ode (e.g. I am new to writing poems and I hope I can learn from all of you. By the way, I learned how to write this kind of poem because of An Ode to Christmas. Thank you very much! An Ode to Halloween When you see a child In a costume scary and wild You know it is Halloween.)
400
The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others
What is Persona (e.g. He who speaks is not he who writes, and he who writes is not he who is)
400
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
What is Rhetoric (e.g. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin)
500
Mood
What is the quality of a verb that conveys the writer's attitude toward a subject. (e.g. "If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack To sit in the synagogue and pray.")
500
Ordinary writing (both fiction and nonfiction) as distinguished from verse.
What is Prose (e.g. "[O]ne can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a window pane." (George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1946))
500
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is an Oxymoron (e.g. Pretty ugly)
500
A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
What is a Parable (e.g. Jack & Jill)
500
The state or quality of being romantic.
What is Romanticism (e.g. Romeo & Juliet)