Cover the words not covered on the 100 Term Test
A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | ||
a pause or break within a line of poetry | ||
the writer specifically states what a character is like | ||
the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thought, words, and actions, appearance, and effect on other characters | ||
the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history | ||
a prototype or original model of a character, like Merlin for magicians (then Gandalf, then Dumbledore) | ||
a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | ||
A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | ||
repetition of consonant sounds | ||
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | ||
a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead | ||
A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause indicated by a mark of punctuation. | ||
the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next, usually due to a lack of punctuation | ||
short, witty saying or poem | ||
a short passage added at the end of a literary work | ||
a genre of literature characterized by gloom, violence, mystery, the bizarre, and the grotesque | ||
a saying that widely accepted on its own merits; see Aphorism | ||
stressed, unstressed | ||
the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | ||
the art of public speaking | ||
the problems that come up during a story as characters try to resolve the conflict | ||
the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax. | ||
the decisive moment in a novel or play; the point of no return; the point to which the rising action builds | ||
events after the climax, leading to the resolution | ||
a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | ||
a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer | ||
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words | ||
rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | ||
latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) | ||
three syllable rhyme | ||
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | ||
Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | ||
These are all general terms referring to rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious. | ||
a form of rhyme that depends on appearance rather than sound (moose, choose) | ||
Refers to the pattern of end rime | ||
harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | ||
form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | ||
The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line. | ||
The time and place of a story | ||
repetition of s and soft c sounds | ||
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with like, as, or than) | ||
in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience | ||
14 line lyric poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) | ||
a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter | ||
a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | ||
a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc cdcd ee | ||
a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | ||
a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse, usually rhymed | ||
a three line stanza | ||
a four line stanza | ||
a five line a stanza | ||
a six line stanza | ||
an eight line stanza | ||
someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions | ||
Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story | ||
an object that is used to represent something else (usually a larger, philosophical and more important idea) | ||
using a part of something to represent the whole thing | ||
describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | ||
the attitude a speaker takes toward a given subject | ||
the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | ||
the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable |