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Frost
Vocab 3
Writing
100
Is defined as a single line of poetry
What is verse
100
An exaggerated statement.
What is a hyperbole?
100
This is the epic poem that Frost refers to in his poem
What is Dante's Inferno?
100
A contrast between what appears to be and what really is; a contradiction in terms
What is irony
100
The main idea of an essay, stated in a single sentence
What is a thesis statement
200
Is defined as a pattern of words containing similar sounds
What is Rhyme
200
Words that appeal to the 5 senses
What is imagery
200
According to the poem, this is the worst way to die.
What is either is fine- both make you go numb.
200
This is the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is consonance
200
A word or phrase that helps take the reader from one idea to another
What is a transition
300
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
300
This is the meter that all of Shakespeare's sonnets are written in
What is iambic pentameter
300
This is why the shape of the poem is the way that it is
What is the nine circles of the inferno?
300
This is the last two lines of the poem, denoted as GG
What is a couplet
300
This is when the subject pronoun is in the same person and tense as the verb.
What is subject/verb agreement
400
The deliberate repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs is called this
What is anaphora
400
words used to imitate the sound of things.
What is Onomatopoeia
400
This is the element compared to hatred
What is ice
400
A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables or patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter
400
This is known as a figure of speech
What is an idiom
500
The syllabic pattern that begins with an unaccented syllable is called this
What is iambic meter
500
A comparison of two unlike things (using like or as)
What is Simile.
500
This is the element compared to desire
What is fire
500
This is the type of language that Shakespeare used that appealed to all of the people (langauge of the day)
What is prose
500
An implied comparison between two unlike things (without like or as).
What is a metaphor