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Poetry
Figurative Language
Poetry & Figurative Language
Literature
Literature
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
100
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally -- it comes in many different forms.
What is figurative language?
100
A figure of speech in which nonhuman subjects are given human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
The struggle between two opposing forces --- described in terms of man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, etc.
What is conflict?
100
A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for soemthing more than itself.
What is symbol?
200
The use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else. The identification suggests a comparison between the two things.
What is a metaphor?
200
Figurative language used to create word pictures or appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
200
A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
200
The insight or lesson/message about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
What is theme?
300
The repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
300
A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, uses like or as.
What is a simile?
300
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme?
300
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the a story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
The attitude a writer takes toward a subject, characters, or an audience.
What is tone?
400
The rhythmical pattern; this pattern is determined by the number and types of stresses or beats, in each line.
What is meter?
400
A figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas.
What is an oxymoron?
400
The repetition of similar final consonant sounds at the ends of words.
What is consonance?
400
A discrepancy (difference) between appearances and reality.
What is irony?
400
The language spken by the people who live in a particular area.
What is vernacular?
500
The most common or popular type of meter. It is unstressed, stressed repeated five times.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A statement that seems to be contradictory but actually presents a truth.
What is a paradox?
500
The voice of a poem -- often the poet but not always.
What is speaker?
500
The distinctive way in which a writer uses language.
What is style?
500
The central character in a story, the one who drives the action.
What is protagonist?