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Definitions: This or That?
Definitions
Examples: This or That?
Examples
Roots
100
A metrical foot with a stressed syllable first, followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a "trochee"?
100
A figure of speech where "like" or "as" are sued to make a comparison between two things.
What is a "simile"?
100
timid bravery "assonance" or "oxymoron"?
What is "oxymoron"?
100
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is "alliteration"?
100
to run
What is "CUR, CURS"?
200
When words are used to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning. "dramatic irony" or "verbal irony"
What is "verbal irony"?
200
A short comment that a character in a play delivers either directly to the audience or to himself.
What is an "aside"?
200
For Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken": People are prone to give themselves more credit for their choices than they deserve in reality. "theme" or "tone"?
What is "theme"?
200
"Could you get me a soda please? I'm dying of thirst here."
What is "hyperbole"?
200
to squeeze, to bind
What is "STRICT, STRING"?
300
A reference to a well known person, place, event, or work of art. "personification" or "allusion"?
What is "allusion"?
300
Poetry that has no regular pattern of either rhyme or meter.
What is "free verse"?
300
"To be or not to be: that is the question / Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles / And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep--" "free verse" or "blank verse"?
What is "blank verse"?
300
the assortment of prizes at the "Winter Festival" in "A Separate Peace"
What are "symbols"?
300
to lead; to draw
What is "DUC, DUCT"?
400
The pattern of rhythm and sound in language, especially in poetry. "rhyme scheme" or "prosody"?
What is "prosody"?
400
A figure of speech where a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object or concept or absent person.
What is "apostrophe"?
400
When Pyramus decides to kill himself upon seeing Thisbe's blood-stained garment in the lion's jaws. "situational irony" or "dramatic irony"?
What is "dramatic irony"?
400
"O Death, where is thy victory?"
What is "apostrophe"?
400
to conquer; to overcome
What is "VINC, VICT"?
500
The purposeful repetition of initial consonant sounds. "assonance" or "alliteration"?
What is "alliteration"?
500
A deliberate overstatement or exaggeration.
What is "hyperbole"?
500
"We struggled uselessly to escape the firm grip of the summer heat." "personification" or "metaphor"?
What is "personification"?
500
"He held his newborn son with as much pride as he had ever had in this world. The whole hospital saw his trophy before they released us from the hospital."
What is "metaphor"?
500
to warn; to instruct"
What is "MON, MONS"?