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Literary Elements
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brown beans bake black
What is an example of alliteration?
100
tired, hungry, and worn out
What is an example of a list of three?
100
irony
What is saying one thing and meaning another? bonus 100 - give an example.
100
1500-1670
What is the Renaissance?
100
Gothic
What is a genre of literature during Romanticism?
200
protagonist
What is the main character?
200
anaphora
What is it called when several sentences start with the same words, ex. I have a dream?
200
foreshadowing
What is hinting at something that will come later in the text?
200
Modernism
What is the period 1900-1965 called? Bonus 100 - give a characteristic and author.
200
Transcendentalism
What is a movement within American Romanticism? Bonus 100: name an author
300
antagonist
What is the force or person who opposes the main character?
300
personification
What is it called when an inanimate object is given human qualities?
300
soliloquy
What is a speech in prose of poetry made by a character? Bonus 100 - give an example.
300
Pomo
What is post-modernism also called? Give a characteristic.
300
Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens
What are two authors from the Victorian period?
400
an exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
in medias res bonus 100: Give an example.
What is when a story starts in the middle of things?
400
14 lines, 3 quatrains, rhyming couplet, iambic pentameter
What is a Shakespearian sonnet. Bonus - take away 100 of another team's points.
400
Damien Hirst
What is the name of a contemporary artist?
400

"The novelist no longer feels bound by 'rules' of narrative structure." 

What is postmodernism (p. 341)

500
Blank verse
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?
500
meter
What is the rhythm of a line of poetry created by the regular repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables?
500
Free verse
What is a poem that consists of unrhymed lines with irregular rhythmic patterns.
500
Age of Reason
What is another name for the Enlightenment?
500
the watchmaker God
What is view of God during the Enlightenment? Bonus 100: How was the supernatural viewed in the period before and after the Enlightenment?