A variation of languages spoken by a group of people.
What is dialect?
100
A generalization of about a group of people that is made without regard for individual differences.
What is stereotype?
100
Repetition of consonants sounds, at beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
100
Figures of speech are often also referred to as this two word term.
What is figurative language?
100
A traditional form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables.
What is Haiku?
200
A literary work in which all or most of the characters, settings, ideas, represent figures beyond themselves.
What is allegory?
200
Literature in which situations and characters are invented by the author.
What is fiction?
200
The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity.
What is consonance?
200
A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm.
What is meter?
300
A reference to a well known character, place, or situation from history, and music.
What is allusion?
300
Writing that uses humor or wit to ridicule the vices or follies.
What is satire?
300
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables close to each other (e.g., penitence, reticence).
What is assonance?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 seemingly unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
Poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings.
What is lyric poetry?
400
An expression whose meaning is different from its literal meaning.
What is idiom?
400
The main idea of an essay or other work of nonfiction.
What is thesis?
400
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.
What is rhyme?
400
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor.
What is hyperbole?
400
A specific poetic meter in which lines have five metric units, or feet, and each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
An inclination towards a certain opinion or position in a topic.
What is bias?
500
Short prose composition that uses rhythm, imagery, and other poetic devices to express an idea or emotion.
What is prose poetry?
500
The creation of words that imitate natural sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.