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| 7454483509 | allegory | Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies - where characters symbolize ideas bigger than themselves | 0 | |
| 7454483510 | alliteration | Whereat with BLade, with BLoody BLameful BLade | 1 | |
| 7454483511 | allusion | TS Eliot's line in one of his poems that makes a reference to an earlier poem by Marvell | 2 | |
| 7454483512 | antithesis | Man proposes; God disposes. | 3 | |
| 7454483513 | apostrophe | Milton! Thou shouldst be living in this hour; / England hath need of thee... (Wordsworth wrote this after Milton had died.) | 4 | |
| 7454483514 | archetype | the common use of light to represent good and dark to represent evil | 5 | |
| 7454483515 | aside | When Hamlet makes the snarky comment "A little more than kin, and less than kind" to express his displeasure with his new stepfather while his new stepfather is on stage with him | 6 | |
| 7454483516 | assonance | A land lAId wAste with all its young men slAIn | 7 | |
| 7454483517 | blank verse | the majority of writing in Shakespearean plays, which have ten syllables per line in an unstressed/stressed pattern and the lines don't rhyme | 8 | |
| 7454483518 | cacophony | b, t, d, hard k, hard c, and hard g; "With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, agape they heard me call..." | 9 | |
| 7454483521 | consonance | aDD and reaD; biLL and baLL, and boRN and buRN | 10 | |
| 7454483522 | couplet | Once upon a midnight dreaRY, / while I pondered, weak and weaRY, | 11 | |
| 7454483524 | dramatic irony | the audience knows that Macbeth has killed Duncan, but most of the author characters do not know | 12 | |
| 7454483525 | end-stopped | "True ease in writing comes from Art, not Chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." (Note that one line ends with a comma and one line ends with a period. Don't focus on the rhyme.) | 13 | |
| 7454483526 | enjambment | "Or if Sion hill / Delight thee more, and Siloas brook that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God" (note that these lines flow right into one another with no end puncutation) | 14 | |
| 7454483527 | extended metaphor | "The Bait," by John Donne, compares a beautiful woman to fish bait and men to fish who want to be caught by the woman | 15 | |
| 7454483528 | euphony | soft s and c, l, w, most longer vowel sounds, and often m and n; "Your low voice tells how bells of singing gold/would sound at twilight over silent water" | 16 | |
| 7454483529 | foil | In "Beauty and the Beast," Gaston is a monster trapped inside a good-looking man, while the Beat is a good man trapped inside an ugly monster | 17 | |
| 7454483530 | free verse | the poetry of Walt Whiman, which lacks both rhyme and regular meter | 18 | |
| 7454483532 | hyperbole | Macbeth, expressing his regret for murder by saying that even if he had an whole ocean of water to wash his hands in, the blood on his hands would turn the ocean red | 19 | |
| 7454483533 | juxtaposition | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness... | 20 | |
| 7454483534 | hubris | the tragic flaw of Willy Loman | 21 | |
| 7454483535 | iambic pentameter | Her vestal livery is but sick and green / And none but fools do wear it; cast it off (count the syllables per line, and notice that it follows an unstressed/stressed pattern...but don't focus on the lack of rhyme...) | 22 | |
| 7454483537 | motif | The title of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is one of these because it hints at an important pattern: the destruction of innocence, played out through several different plot strands and with several different characters | 23 | |
| 7454483538 | onomatopoeia | The MOAN of doves in immemorial elms, / And MURMURING of innumerable bees... | 24 | |
| 7454483539 | oxymoron | wise fool, sad joy, eloquent silence, silent scream, alone together | 25 | |
| 7454483540 | paradox | Take me to you, imprison me, for I, / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free (translation: I will never be free unless you imprison me) | 26 | |
| 7454483541 | parallel structure | "Ceaselessly musING, venturING, throwING seekING the spheres to connect them, / TILL THE bridge you will need be formd, TILL THE ductile anchor hold, / TILL THE gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul." | 27 | |
| 7454483543 | pun | You have dancing shoes with nimble SOLES; I have a SOUL of lead | 28 | |
| 7454483546 | satire | In "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift proposes eating poor Irish Catholic babies so they will not become a burden. This obviously ridiculous idea makes fun of the way the English Protestant upper class treated the Irish Catholics with such low regard. | 29 | |
| 7454483547 | situational irony | Romeo kills himself because he believes Juliet is already dead; however, she isn't, and she ends up killing herself because he killed himself because he thought she was dead. Yikes. | 30 | |
| 7454483548 | soliloquy | Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech is delivered when he is alone onstage | 31 | |
| 7454483549 | sonnet | a poem that has a rhyme scheme like abba, abba, cde, cde | 32 | |
| 7454483553 | theme | An example from Romeo and Juliet: Love is a powerful, often even dangerous, force. | 33 | |
| 7454483555 | tragic flaw | hubris | 34 | |
| 7454483557 | understatement/litotes | Macbeth, having been nearly hysterical after killing Duncan, simply says, "'Twas a rough night." | 35 | |
| 7454483558 | verbal irony | After Brutus kills Caesar, Marc Antony refers to Brutus in Caesar's funeral speech as "an honorable man." March Antony, who remains loyal to Caesar, is doesn't actually mean that. | 36 | |
| 7454640940 | polysyndeton | "In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty AND morality AND loyalty AND obligation. | 37 | |
| 7454640941 | asyndeton | We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty | 38 | |
| 7454640942 | metonymy | We commonly speak of the king as "the crown" or "the throne," objects closely associated with kingship. | 39 | |
| 7454640943 | synecdoche | A captain calls for "all hands on deck" (even though he obviously he wants people on deck, not just hands) | 40 |
