Devices
This is an example of what literary device:
"mud-luscious" "puddle-wonderful"
What is diction
This is an example of what type of rhetorical appeal:
"Aspen Institute study suggests that nearly 40 percent of restaurant workers earn at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25, even with tips factored in."
What is logos
This is an example of what type of sentence:
"Nor is my invisibility exactly a matter of a biochemical accident to my epidermis."
What is a fragment sentence
This is called a 14 line poem
What is a sonnet?
An ellipsis is used to...
build suspense at a key point in the poem/text
Double Jeopardy
This is an example of what literary device:
"Whitely, discreetly, very quietly"
The last six lines of a sonnet is called what
What is a sestet
This is an example of what type of sentence:
"I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, of fiber and of liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind."
What is parallel structure
What is enjambment
Dashes are used to...
show a break/pause in a thought or tone
This is an example of what literary device:
"And I remember grandma toiling in the bean fields while I played with my army truck on the fender of a 49" Plymouth."
What is imagery
A poem that repeats the same phrase at the beginning of each line.
What is anaphora
This type of sentence contains an independent and dependent clause
What is complex sentences
Double Jeopardy
This type of literary theory examines the relationship between dominant cultures and those with less power or authority.
read more quickly; engage reader
This is an example of what literary device:
"soft fists insist" and "our toes, our noses"
What is assonance
"A Poison Tree" is an example of what kind of poem. (form and/or device)
What is an extended metaphor or allegory
This is an example of what type of sentence:
"Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass."
What is a complex sentence
This strategy is used to help you analyze a poetic text.
What is TP-CASTT
Semicolons are used...
to indicate that two sentences are closely related
This is an example of what literary device:
"Earless and eyeless,"
What is alliteration