Poetic Structure
A line of verse in five metrical feet
What is pentameter?
Use of a word to suggest multiple meanings
What is a Pun?
The lead/focal character
What is a Protagonist?
A style or manner of writing/speaking
What is Tone?
Comparing two things with "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Four lines of verse
What is a quatrain?
An author imitates a style of writing or conventions to a humorous effect
What is Parody?
Character archetypes easily recognized in many forms of literature
What is a Stock Character?
The perspective of how the story is told
What is Point of View?
A question that does not require an answer
What is a Rhetorical Question?
A poem with six stanzas with six lines each
What is a Sestet?
The use of irony in speech
What is Verbal Irony?
A character previously established to be the "hero" befalling a tragic fate
What is a Tragic Hero?
A description or direction provided in the text of a play
What are Stage Directions?
The repetition of conjunctions in close succession
What is Polysyndeton?
Verse that is 14 lines long with 5 metrical feet of iambic rhyming
What is a Sonnet?
A literary work holding up human vices to scorn, typically humorously
What is Satire?
A character assumed by an author/self-insert
What is a Persona?
An author using two or more narratives
What is a Parallel Plot?
A part of the whole used to represent the whole
What is Synecdoche?
6 stanzas where the ending word of the first stanza recur throughout the ending words of the next 5 stanzas
What is a Sestina?
A figure of speech that starts one way, but goes in a humorously different direction that reframes the first part
What is Paraprosdokian?
A character in a written work that represents a real person without using their name/likeness
What is Roman a clef?
Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance
What is Parallel Structure?
Transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words
What is Spoonerism?