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WHAT A CHARACTER
WORD PLAYS
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POETIC TYPES
100
The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
100
A major character that opposes the main character in a story or play.
What is ANTAGONIST?
100
A reference to another written work, piece of art, myth, historical time, or place.
What is an ALLUSION?
100
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is a STANZA?
100
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.
What is PROSE?
200
The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence.
What is ALLITERATION?
200
Unlike "flat" characters, these are more developed and usually undergo change through the course of a story or play.
What is ROUND or DYNAMIC CHARACTER?
200
One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.
What is an ANTONYM?
200
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
What is TONE?
200
A Japanese form of poetry that consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
What is HAIKU?
300
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
A character who, by contrast, points up the qualities or characteristics of another character.
What is a FOIL?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.
What is a SIMILE?
300
A written form usually described as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person.
What is POINT OF VIEW?
300
A light or humorous verse form of five verses.
What is a LIMERICK?
400
A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.
What is IAMBIC PENTAMETER?
400
Often seen in plays, it is a monologue given by a main character, usually of unspoken thoughts.
What is a SOLILOQUY?
400
A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a PUN?
400
Substitution of a mild, indirect, or positive term for one considered harsh, offensive, or negative.
What is EUPHEMISM?
400
A song that tells a story.
What is a BALLAD?
500
Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.
What is ASSONANCE?
500
A main character who makes an error (usually due to a "tragic flaw") that leads to his/her downfall.
What is a TRAGIC HERO?
500
The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
500
The use of a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
What is SYMBOLISM?
500
Fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
What is a SONNET?