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Allusions
Poetry
Figurative Language
The Scarlet Letter
Vocabulary
100
a dog usually represented as having 3 heads
What is a cerberus?
100
the characteristics of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary language
What is colloquial ?
100
BOOM! CLAP!
What is an onomatopoeia ?
100
protagonist
Who is Hester Prynne in the novel ?
100
a figure of speech that employs the use of a part for the whole or the whole part example : Jack bought a new set of 'wheels'.
What is a synecdoche ?
200
traitor
Who does Benedict Arnold symbolize?
200
a figure of understatement in which an affirmative it expressed by a negation of the contrary or opposite
What is a litotes ?
200
How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
What is alliteration?
200
Roger Chillingworth
who is the antagonist
200
conjunctions used repeatedly
What is a polysyndeton ?
300
sea creatures who lure sailors to death
What are sirens?
300
the speaker's voice, the work of literature expresses the writer's feelings
What is tone ?
300
She is as light as a feather
What is a smilie ?
300
objects, characters, figures, and colors
What are symbols?
300
not moving
What is stagnant ?
400
a handsome man
What is a adonis?
400
a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present
What is apostrophe ?
400
The trees were dancing though the wind
What is a personification ?
400
sin, knowledge, human condition
What is the theme?
400
lack of emotion or interest
What is apathy ?
500
a treacherous kiss
What is a Judas kiss?
500
an exaggeration for a comic effect
What is hyperbole ?
500
Drop Dead Gorgeous
What is irony ?
500
Dimmesdale to Hester Prynne
What is the foil ?
500
theoretical; lacking substance
What is abstract ?