a word or phrase is used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning
What is verbal irony?
100
treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings - most often used to describe the weather
What is pathetic fallacy?
100
writing that ridicules or criticizes
What is satire?
100
the central message or insight into life revealed by a story
What is theme?
200
a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, often used for comic effect
What is a hyperbole?
200
an events occurs that contradicts the expectations of the characters
What is situational irony?
200
giving human qualities to something that isn't human
What is personification?
200
time and place action occurs
What is setting?
200
work of literature, especially a play, that shows the downfall or death of a main character
What is a tragedy?
300
an expression that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meaning of its elements
What is an idiom?
300
contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows
What is dramatic irony?
300
sequence of events in a literary work
What is plot?
300
makes a comparison using "like" or "as?
What is a simile?
300
set in an ideal or perfect place
What is an utopia?
400
the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
What is imagery?
400
related to works in Old English poetry where the author would create a new poetic compound-phrase to describe a familiar person, place, or idea
What is a kenning?
400
the narrator is a character in the story
What is first person point of view?
400
a group of lines in a poem that are considered a unit
What is a stanza?
400
a form of intelligent humor, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny
What is wit?
500
practice of forming a rhyme in only one line of verse
What is internal rhyme?
500
the practice of misusing words by substituting words with similar sounding words that have different, often unconnected meanings, and thus creating a situation of confusion, misunderstanding, and amusement
What is malapropism?
500
a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
500
feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events