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"A brief statement which expresses an observation on life usually intended as a wise observation."
What is an Aphorism?
100
The way in which linguistic elements (words and phrases) are arranged to form grammatical structure.
What is Syntax?
100
The repetition of words phrases sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea.
What is Parallelism?
100
A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used for deliberate effect.
What is a Hyperbole?
100
Poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching.
What is didactic poetry?
200
"A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. In written narrative _____ involves a continuous parallel between two (or more) levels of meaning in a story so that its persons and events correspond to their equivalents in a system of ideas or a chain of events external to the tale.""
What is an Allegory?
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A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part as wheels for automobile or society for high society.
What is Synecdoche?
200
A combination of contradictory terms like compassionate conservative.
What is Oxymoron?
200
In literature a word of phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character.
What is an Epithet?
200
14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line).
What is a sonnet?
300
A statement which can contain two or more meanings.
What is Ambiguity?
300
Technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. The writer attempts by the _______ to reflect all the forces external and internal influencing the psychology of a character at a single moment.
What is Stream of Consciousness?
300
A recurrent image word phrase represented object or action that tends to unify the literary work or that may be elaborated into a more general theme.
What is a Motif?
300
The repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
300
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
400
The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
What is Vernacular?
400
A literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly.
What is Satire?
400
A figure of speech in which a word represents something else which it suggests.
What is Metonymy?
400
The repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
400
Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern.
What is refrain?
500
(1) the abstract concept explored in a literary work; (2) frequently recurring ideas such as enjoy-life while-you-can.
What is a Theme?
500
A literary form in which the style of an author or particular work is mocked in its style for the sake of comic effect?
What is Parody?
500
A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but literally it is not.
What is a Metaphor?
500
The use of words which mimic their meaning in sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of the poem.
What is pace?