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100
a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
What is an antagonist
100
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole
100
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is onomatopoeia
100
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or viv
What is simile
100
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
What is theme
200
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel
What is assonance
200
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition
200
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is oxymoron
200
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is stanza
200
the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
What is tone
300
he literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is denotation
300
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
What is farce
300
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification
300
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”
What is synecdoche
300
play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character.
What is tragedy
400
repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
What is consonance
400
refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
What is extended metaphor
400
an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.
What is motif
400
a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
What is rhythm
400
a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.
What is trochaic
500
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is enjambment
500
expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
What is lyric
500
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
What is metonymy
500
phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem,
What is refrain
500
a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
What is villanelle