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Figurative Language
Poetry
Persuasion
Fiction and Drama
Grammar
100
the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
What is Alliteration?
100
the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal.
What is Rhyme Scheme
100
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period:
What is Ethos?
100
A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.
What is Fiction and Drama
100
the set of rules that explain how words are used in a language
What is Grammar
200
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication:
What is Allusion?
200
a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse
What is Internal Rhyme
200
the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion
What is Pathos mean?
200
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time:
What is Mood?
200
a word or phrase in
What is Appositive
300
an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity
What is Hyperbole
300
Lyric poems have a musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions. You can usually identify a lyric poem by its musicality: if you can imagine singing it, it's probably lyric. In ancient Greece and Rome, lyric poems were in fact sung to the strums of an accompanying lyre. It's the word lyre, in fact, that is at the root of lyric; the Greek lyrikos means "singing to the lyre
What is Lyrical Poem
300
(often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
What is Logos
300
a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose
What is Plot
300
A rule set by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to determine a minimum market value to be listed continuously. The Market Capitalization Rule states that companies must maintain a minimum value of $25 million over 30 consecutive days to remain listed. This standard value was set in 2004
What is Capitalization Rules
400
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: (Hint, "the dim imagery of a dream.")
What is Imagery
400
Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules and still provide artistic expression. In this way, the poet can give his own shape to a poem how he/she desires. However, it still allows poets to use alliteration, rhyme, cadences or rhythms to get the effects that they consider are suitable for the piece.
What is Free Verse Poem
400
a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: (Hint,That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy)
What is Fallacies
400
a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products: (Hint, an exposition of 19th-century paintings; an automobile exposition.)
What is Exposition?
400
a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
What is Independent Clause
500
An image based on one or more types of sensation.
What is Sensory images
500
An image based on one or more types of sensation.
What is Narrative Poem?
500
a wagon used for carrying a band in a parade or procession.
What is Bandwagon
500
a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. (Hint, the eternal conflict between the sexes)
What is Conflict
500
a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
What is Dependent Clause