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| 5610709965 | Metaphor | When one thing is pictured or described as though it were something else, suggesting likeness through an implied comparison. A _________________ can be extended, controlling, or mixed | 0 | |
| 5610722531 | Narrator | The character who tells the story. The ________________ in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a young girl named Scout | 1 | |
| 5610731686 | Theme | The central or dominant idea or focus of a work of literature. The central ______________ in the novel Things Fall Apart would involve the subjugation of a native culture | 2 | |
| 5610738320 | Diction | Specific word choice used to persuade or convey a tone. The striking ___________________ in the author's sentence structure involves his use of striking modifiers | 3 | |
| 5610744953 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an abstract idea or nonhuman object. Shakespeare once used _______________ to describe jealousy in the play Othello, "Beware of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster that mocks the meat it feeds on." | 4 | |
| 5610753670 | Allegory | A narrative with multiple, highly symbolic levels of meaning. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is clearly an ___________________. | 5 | |
| 5610761602 | Hyperbole | A deliberate overstatement using exaggerated language. It would be _______________ to say that Jackie's book bag weighed a ton | 6 | |
| 5610767769 | Voice | The source of the words in a story: the narrative ___________ that speaks directly to the reader. | 7 | |
| 5610774548 | Irony | A contrast between what is said and what is meant. There are different forms of _______________: situational, dramatic, cosmic, tragic, and fatalistic | 8 | |
| 5610782228 | Parody | A work that imitates another for comic effect by using exaggeration and adapting the content of the original. The movie Meet the Spartans is a ____________ of the film 300. | 9 | |
| 5610788438 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory statements that may, in fact, be true. "The child is father of the man" a line by William Wordsworth is clearly a _________________. | 10 | |
| 5610795258 | Motif | A recurrent device, formula, or situation serving as a signal for the appearance of a character or event. The use of serpents in literature often serves as a __________________ for evil entering an environment. | 11 | |
| 5610801947 | Rhythm | The modulation of strong and weak syllables or beats in speech or line of poetry. ________________ is easy to feel in music, but somewhat more difficult to detect in poetry. | 12 | |
| 5610808639 | Antagonist | The force opposing the main character in a work of literature. The ___________________ of Antigone is clearly King Creon of Thebes. | 13 | |
| 5610815453 | Symbolism | Elements in a literary work that figuratively stand for something else. An example of ____________________ in literature is forests, which often represent danger or uncertainty. | 14 | |
| 5610825228 | Persona | The voice or figure who tells the story and who may not share the values of the actual author. Samuel Clemons' ____________________ was represented by the audacious Mark Twain. | 15 | |
| 5610831140 | Exposition | The introduction to a story that includes the identification of the characters and dramatic situation at the beginning of a story or play. The ___________________ is a key element of plot. | 16 | |
| 5610837381 | Parable | A short fictional story illustrating a moral lesson through analogy. The _________________ of "The Good Samaritan" teaches one to take pity on the poor and downtrodden. | 17 | |
| 5610844994 | Pastoral | A literary work, often poetic in nature, which describes the simple life of county folk. Christopher Marlowe's "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a well-known ________________ about a shepherd's attempt to win the heart of his lover. | 18 | |
| 5610852414 | Ode | A lyric poem with elaborate structure that praises a person, characteristic, quality, or object. Percy Byshe Shelley's "_______ to the West Wind" is a famous example of this type of poetry. | 19 | |
| 5610858980 | Juxtaposed | To place two words or concepts side by side for the basis of comparison. Black and white photos were ______________ with color images. | 20 | |
| 5610867385 | Tone | The attitude a literary work takes toward its subject or theme. The ___________ of a work may be described as humorous, satirical, or coldly realistic. | 21 | |
| 5610874150 | Soliloquy | A dramatic monologue in which a character is alone speaking to himself or herself. "To be or not to be that is the question" Hamlet, a famous ___________. | 22 | |
| 5610880910 | Plot | An arrangement of narration based on cause and effect, consisting of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion. Most book reports are little more than a _______________ summary. | 23 | |
| 5610888297 | Fable | A legend or short moral story that often uses animals as characters. A modern ______________ would be George Orwell's Animal Farm—the ancient form perfected by Aesop himself. | 24 | |
| 5610895617 | Archetype | Recurrent patterns of action, themes, images, and characters in a wide range of literature. The following list of character types serve to remind us of the ________________: the child, the hero, the wise old man, the trickster, the devil, the great mother, the scarecrow, and so on . . . . | 25 | |
| 5610905086 | Foreshadowing | This occurs when an author hints at something that has yet to occur in a story. ___________________ is a powerful narrative technique many writers employ to "hook" a reader. | 26 | |
| 5610912429 | Style | A writer's distinctive manner of expression. Poe's writing _________________ differs greatly from Mark Twain's. | 27 | |
| 5610918653 | Mood | The feeling or ambiance that a writer creates as a result of tone, attitude, and point of view. The ______________ of many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works can best be described as gloomy and grim. | 28 | |
| 5610930873 | Couplets | Two paired, often rhyming, lines of poetry. Sonnets often end with a rhyming ___________________. | 29 | |
| 5610937476 | Simile | A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison using the words "like" or "as." "His skin was as smooth as a baby's bottom" certainly contains a __________________. | 30 | |
| 5610943323 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence running from one line of a poem to the next. Notice the ____________________ present in the following lines, "My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky." | 31 | |
| 5610949080 | Imagery | The use of figurative language to evoke a feeling or idea in describing an object. You can detect ________________ that plays on our senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell. | 32 | |
| 5610955716 | Lyric | A short poem with intense personal emotion, rather than a description of a situation. The word _________________ has become synonymous with modern music. | 33 | |
| 5610963129 | Satire | A literary work that ridicules human weakness, foolishness, and failings. A famous example of _______________ would be Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. | 34 | |
| 5610969609 | Allusion | A reference to a literary, historical, religious, or mythological work. "The final game was John's Waterloo" is an example of an ______________ to the battle in which Napoleon was defeated. | 35 | |
| 5610975525 | Meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Shakespeare's _____________ was traditionally iambic pentameter. | 36 | |
| 5610981414 | Protagonist | The main character in a work of literature, who may or may not be heroic. In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is the novel's ________________________. | 37 | |
| 5610987811 | Tragedy | A dramatic work in which the main character is brought to a disastrous end, often as a result of a tragic flaw. The play Hamlet is a famous ___________ by William Shakespeare. | 38 | |
| 5610995130 | Ballad | A narrative poem originally meant to be sung. A modern example of a ____________ would be John Cougar Mellancamp's "Jack and Diane." | 39 | |
| 5611000646 | Realism | Writers in this tradition attempt to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail. Two famous writers of ___________ include Joseph Conrad and James Joyce. | 40 | |
| 5611008889 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech combining two apparently contradictory elements, often for a humorous effect. Some examples of ___________ include: jumbo shrimp, working vacation, military intelligence, student athlete, and definite maybe. | 41 | |
| 5611016487 | Genres | A class or type of literature. Common ___________________ include fiction, nonfiction, plays, poetry, and folktales. | 42 | |
| 5611021915 | Stanza | A section of a poem, roughly equivalent to a paragraph in prose. The rhyme scheme in the 1st _______________ was a,b,b,a,c,c. | 43 | |
| 5611030393 | Connotation | The meaning suggested by a word, apart from its denotation, or explicit definition. The word "pig headed" certainly carries with it a negative _________________. | 44 | |
| 5611041031 | Elegy | A poetic lament upon the death of a particular person. Walt Whitman's famous _____________ "O Captain! My Captain!" was written about Abraham Lincoln. | 45 | |
| 5611048502 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used to signify a whole. "All hands of deck" is an example of ___________________. | 46 | |
| 5611054616 | Syntax | Used to describe the word order of a sentence, or the way words are used to form phrases, clauses and sentences. The _________________ found in Shakespeare's poems are brilliant. | 47 | |
| 5611064379 | Onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like what it describes, such as "buzz" or "hiss." | 48 | |
| 5611071264 | Refrain | The hallmark of a ballad, this poetic device appears in the form of a repeated stanza or line in a poem or song. The ____________ repeated in Edgar A. Poe's poem "The Raven" is Nevermore. | 49 | |
| 5611076828 | Anecdote | A very brief story or tale. Mr. Romine told an amusing ____________ about how his son wanted to marry his mother. | 50 | |
| 5611083459 | Colloquial | Used to describe ordinary, common language, also known as the vernacular. "That ain't funny!" is an example of ___________________ language. | 51 |
