Poetic Terms
This is a comparison between two things.
What is a metaphor?
This is the term used to describe imagery pertaining to hearing.
What is auditory?
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley makes an allusion to this French leader who wanted to take over the world.
Who is Napoleon?
This is repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words.
What is alliteration?
Narration from an individual's perspective that uses the pronoun "I" is said to be this.
What is first person narration?
This is the term used when two opposite (or very different) things are placed together in a line of poetry.
What is a juxtaposition?
This is the term used to describe imagery that pertains to smell.
What is olfactory?
This is the type of allusion made in the following sentence:
The football player was built like Hercules.
What is a mythological allusion?
This is the term used when a word sounds like the sound it implies, such as "bang" or "meow."
What is onomatopoeia?
Narration that does not involve a character in a work is said to be this.
What is third person narration?
This is the term used when a write gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
This is the type of irony that is often referred to as sarcasm.
What is verbal irony?
While it typically symbolized innocence and purity, the color white is also commonly used to represent this more negative concept.
What is sterility or death?
This is the term for the repetition of the "s" sound, as in "soft," "innocent," and "fizz."
What is sibilance?
This is the term for an all-knowing narrator.
What is omniscient?
This is the term that denotes the order of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
This type of irony involves the audience/reader knowing something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Tennessee Williams uses the color white throughout the play, most notably in these two instances.
This term is used for harsh sounding words and phrases, such as "the clanging bricks chucked zig-zag at the metal piping."
What is cacophony?
This is the term for a narrator who knows everything from one character's perspective.
What is a third person limited narrator?
This term is used when a pause occurs in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is caesura?
These two types of sensory imagery are used in the following sentence:
He tried to touch the red hot flame.
What is tactile and visual?
Blanche's husband's last name is symbolic because it denotes this color.
What is grey?
This is the rhythm of a poem, such as iambic pentameter.
What is the meter?
This is the term used for the narrator of a poem.
What is the speaker?