Adjective description to point out characteristics, often used in place of the name of a person or thing.
What is Epithet?
100
Dealing with simple, rural life, or escape to a simpler time.
What is Pastoral?
100
Not within the time period.
What is Anachronism?
100
Repetition of vowel sounds within the words.
What is Assonance?
100
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses or lines in poetry.
What is Epistrophe?
200
Story sort of like a sermon with purpose to present amoral statement.
What is Exemplum?
200
A deviation from a standard fro effect, style, or form.
What is Poetic License?
200
Device of parallelism in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines, clauses, or sentence.
What is Anaphora?
200
Tragic flaw in a character.
What is Hamartia?
300
Excessive pride; causes downfall for many tragic heroes.
What is Hubris?
300
Often involves the personification of nature.
Stressing strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in form an rebellion against the establishment and social convention.
What is Romanticism?
300
Giving animal traits to humans.
What is Animaization?
300
Purging of emotions.
What is Catharsis?
300
Form of first person.
What is Innocent Eye?
400
Using something associated with a thing to represent it.
What is Metonymy?
400
The individuality of expressing an idea by an author; might be formal.
What is Style?
400
Two very contrasting ideas creating emphasis.
What is Antithesis?
400
An elaborate analogy.
What is Conceit?
400
Technique for presenting emotional experience of a character; thoughts of the character.
What is Interior Monologue?
500
Idea, often associated with Rousseau, that men close to nature and distanced from corrupt society are more noble;
a character motif
What is Noble Savage?
500
Arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses to form sentences.
What is Syntax?
500
Addressing something not really there or not alive, as to talk to the moon, ocean,sky, etc.
What is Apostrophe?
500
Moment of revelation or insight in which a character recognizes some truth or comes to some understanding.
What is Epiphany?
500
It says what something is not to describe what it is.