Literary Terms
What literary device repeats beginning consonant sounds, as in “wild winds”?
Alliteration
What type of poetry does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or meter?
Free verse
What kind of military attack is described in “The Charge of the Light Brigade”?
A cavalry charge
In “Annabel Lee,” what does the word maiden mean?
A girl or young woman
What point of view uses pronouns such as I, me, and my?
First-person point of view
What literary device gives human qualities to nonhuman things?
Personification
What do we call the pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines?
Rhyme scheme
What two types of poetry describe “The Charge of the Light Brigade”?
Historical and narrative poetry
In “Frog and Rabbit,” what negative trait does Rabbit show?
Greed / inconsideration
What type of conflict occurs when a character struggles against discrimination from the community?
Character vs. society
What literary device repeats vowel sounds in nearby words?
Assonance
What type of rhyme occurs when words rhyme within the same line?
Internal rhyme
What sound or movement does the poem’s strong rhythm imitate?
Galloping horses / soldiers charging into battle
What mood does the songlike rhythm and repetition in “Annabel Lee” help create?
Love and longing
What do we call a narrator whose story may not be trustworthy?
Unreliable narrator
What literary device repeats consonant sounds, including sounds that are not at the beginning of words?
Consonance
What is the term for the speaker’s or writer’s attitude?
Tone
What mistake sends the soldiers into danger?
A mistaken order
How does the tone shift near the end of “The Cremation of Sam McGee”?
From eerie to humorous
Which narrator trait helps Poe build suspense in “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
Obsession
What are the two literary devices described here: (1) a reference to another work or historical event and (2) repeated grammatical structures?
Allusion and parallelism
What does the literary term connotation mean?
The feelings or ideas a word suggests beyond its literal definition.
What feeling do the driving rhythm and repetition create during the charge?
Urgency / intensity
What does the description “kingdom by the sea” contribute to “Annabel Lee”?
Fairy-tale atmosphere
What does the narrator repeatedly insist about himself in “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
That he is sane