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Poetry
Figure of Speech
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a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.
What is anaphora?
100
Juliet: Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet. Romeo: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What is an aside?
100
Epic Lyric Drama Romance Satire Tragedy Comedy
What is genre?
100
the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. OR the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words.
What is syntax?
100
the most enduring forms of folk literature; can be found in the literature of almost every country.
What is a fable?
200
a series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted.
What is an ellipses?
200
an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached.
What is flashback?
200
a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language
What is dialect?
200
manner of expression; how a speaker or writer says what he says.
What is style?
200
The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line. OR A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter, determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line OR The rhythmic pattern of a stanza, determined by the kind and number of lines.
What is meter?
300
The opposite of emjambment
What is end-stop?
300
From the Greek, "plainness, simplicity", this figure of speech that serves as an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is a litote?
300
This is the fundamental and universal idea behind its plot. This comes alive through the characters.
What is theme?
300
framework of a work of literature; the organization or over-all design of a work.
What is structure?
300
This 39 line poem follows this format: ABCDEF 2. FAEBDC 3. CFDABE 4. ECBFAD 5. DEACFB 6. BDFECA 7. (envoi) ECA or ACE
What is a sestina?
400
a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs
What is rhyme?
400
From the greek "shared understanding", A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part.
What is a synecdoche?
400
a literary term defined as the events that makes up the story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or by coincidence.
What is plot?
400
prepares the reader for what you are about to say; needs to capture a reader's attention.
What is thesis?
400
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
500
This is a verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.
What is a chiasmus?
500
This is the placement of two concepts, characters, things, events, ideas, phrases, settings or words side by side in order to draw a contrast, create suspense, bring about a rhetorical effect, compare, or as a tool for character development.
What is juxtaposition?
500
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
What is prose?
500
the individual writing style of an author; generally considered to be a combination of a writer's use of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works).
What is voice?
500
From Latin and French words meaning "four", this is a poem or stanza of four lines that is formed by two rhyming couplets.
What is a quatrain?