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Literary Terms II
Hodge-Podge
100
A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.
What is Satire
100
Has an ababcdcdefefgg rhyme schme
What is a Shakesperean sonnet
100
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
What is The Great Gatsby
100
We must wait to hear from the crown until we make any further decisions.
What is Metonymy
100
In the novel the Outsiders, a reference is made to this Robert Frost poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny when the two hide out in the Windrixville Church.
What is Nothing Gold Can Stay
200
A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.
What is Foil
200
Type of poetry written in a regular meter that does not contain rhyme
What is Blank Verse
200
Yam, the king of crops was a man's crop.
What is Things Fall Apart
200
In the outer room the two women knitted black wool feverishly. People were arriving, and the younger one was walking back and forth introducing them. The old one sat on her chair...An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.
What is Allusion
200
Originally the novel was titled, The Last Man in Europe but a letter dated 22 October 1948 to his publisher Fredric Warburg.
What is 1984
300
An extended metaphor that compares two very dissimilar things.
What is Conceit
300
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep..." comes from this poem.
What is Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening
300
It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see.
What is Anthem
300
“O happy dagger, /This is thy sheath. / There rust and let me die.”
What is Apostrophe
300
Also called meiosis it is a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is.
What is understatement
400
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…
What is a Anaphora
400
"When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies..." The word "lies" is an example of...
What is Pun
400
“Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul— A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.”
What is Antigone
400
Has no rhyme scheme and no pattern of meter.
What is Free Verse
400
All that glitters is not gold. William Shakespeare is popular for using this phrase in his play ___________. The original version reads, “all that glisters is not gold.“ Later in modern renditions, writers replaced “glisters” with “glitter.”
What is The Merchant of Venice
500
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
What is a Paradox
500
The following shows this literary device: “What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
What is Parallelism
500
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”
What is Macbeth
500
Comes from the Latin for “side by side” it places two concepts, characters, ideas, or places near or next to each other so that the reader will compare and contrast them.
What is Juxtaposition
500
Khaled Hosseini, author of a Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner, worked in this profession for over 10 years before the huge success of his debut novel, The Kite Runner,
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