The PLOT Thickens
The action of the story. A series of events moving towards a common goal or theme.
What is plot?
The most common type of rhyme. The repetition of 2 or more words having the same sounds in the last stressed vowel.
What is perfect rhyme?
The technique of repeating initial consonant sounds. EX: "The silken, sad, uncertain rustling"-repetition of the "S" sound.
What is alliteration?
This thing/concept moves the plot forward.
What is conflict?
This is a popular Japanese poem style using 3 lines of 5, 7, and then 5 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
Actions and events related to the main story, but of lesser importance.
What are subplots?
This is where the standard form of rhyme is placed in a sentence.
What is at the end? OR End Rhyme?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a poem.
What is assonance?
Your book uses these two terms interchangeably to refer to the top of the Plot Pyramid.
What are Crisis or Climax?
A collection of lines in poetry.
What is a stanza?
This is where the author deliberately goes against the audience's expectations.
What is a plot twist or surprise ending?
The pattern that a poem follows, specifically with the last rhymed sound in a stanza.
What is a rhyme scheme?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words in a poem.
What is consonance?
When events are listed in order of when they occurred.
What is chronological order?
A narrative poem, originally intended to be sung or performed.
What is a ballad?
A technique that pulls the reader out of a chronological order of events to highlight something in a character's past.
What is a flashback?
When a rhyme is slightly mismatched in a poem.
What is a slant rhyme?
A word that stands for a sound something makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
The flat line at the very beginning of the pyramid.
What is exposition?
These are the two main types of sonnet.
What are Italian and English?
The French term for the resolution of a plot.
What is the denouement? (DAY-noo-MAHN)
Words that look like they should rhyme, but do not.
EX: "Cough" and "Bough"
What are eye rhymes?
The repetition of specific words or phrases at the beginning of a line.
What is anaphora?
This is the point where the conflict first appears in the story.
What is the inciting incident?
This is the European version of the Haiku.
What is the Cinquain?