A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
What is Allegory
100
An unpleasant combination of sounds. The sound effects created by the author; shows how things are out of balance.
A combination of pleasant sounds used intentionally by the author
What is Cacophony and Euphony
100
Occurs when the audience or the reader knows something that the characters in the text does not
What is Dramatic Irony
100
Occurs when the result of an action is the reverse or different from what is anticipated.
What is Situational Irony
100
Occurs when there is a contrast between the literal meaning of what is stated and what is intended by the speaker
What is Verbal Irony
200
The original model which something is developed or made: these images, character types, setting, and story patterns that are universally shared by people across cultures
What is Archetype
200
Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
What is Didactic
200
Intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is.
What is Meiosis
200
A dramatic device where someone is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud for the benefit of the audience
What is Soliloquy
200
A figure of speech wherein the speaker directly addresses something nonhuman or nonliving
What is Apostrophe
300
An appeal to pity in an argument
What is Ad Misericordiam
300
A thing belonging or appropriate to a period than it which exists.
What is Anachronism
300
The emotional effect a tragic drama has on its audience; the feeling of exaltation or relief that playgoers experience during and after the catastrophe, the culmination of the play's falling action.
What is Catharsis
300
How writers present ideas, character or places where they appeal to more than one senses.
What is Synesthesia
300
Unstressed - unstressed - stressed
What is Anapest
400
The appearance of being true or real
What is Verismilitude
400
A pause in a line of poetry dictated by natural speaking rythm,; sometimes it coincides with the poet's punctuation, but occasionally, it occurs where some pause in speech is inevitable
What is Caesura
400
Rhetorical device in which certain words, sounds, concepts, or syntatic structure is reversed or repeated in reverse order.
What is Chiasmus
400
A figure of speech in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
What is Metonomy
400
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole.
What is Synecdoche
500
Grammatical structure in which one verb governs two or more different words.
What is Zeugma
500
Stressed - stressed
What is Spondee
500
Stressed - unstressed.
What is Trochee
500
Stressed - unstressed - unstressed
What is Dactyl
500
Rhetorical device involving the deliberate use of many conjunctions between single words or phrases.