Lit Term Review game

Unrhymed iambic pentamete

An intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack.

Character who, by contrast, highlights characteristics of another character.

The linking of one word with two other words in two strikingly different ways.

Repetition of vowel sounds

The use of compatible, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect.

Rhyme that comes at the end of lines of poetry.

Poem focusing on death or mortality

Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences.

The quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity and sorrow

An inference that does not logically follow from the premise(s).

A logical argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise.

An apparently contradictory statement which actually contains some truth

Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, five syllables, often depicting a delicate image.

Describing an excessive display of learning or scholarship

The analysis of mechanical elements within a poem to determine meter.

Short, often witty statement of a principle or truth about life.

An argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue.

Stressed portion of word

A major category or type of literature.

word choice

A standard theme or dramatic situation, which recurs in various works/within a work.

Substituting the name of one object closely associated with it.

Using one part of an object to represent the entire object

Run on of thought from one line, couplet, stanza to next without syntactical break.

a long lyric poem usually serious and elevated in tone

Two opposite ideas put together in sentence to achieve a contrasting effect

a poem about idealized rural life or shepherds

Device of talking to an imaginary, dead or absent person, place or thing.

The literal meaning of a word

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

A moment of sudden revelation or insight.

Character who opposes the protagonis

The way an author explains to the reader who a character is as a person.

Simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited

words that contradict/ are opposite

The overall manner in which an individual writer expresses ideas.

A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions.

A type of understatement in which something affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.

Comparison of two similar but different things, will clarify an action or relationship

repetition of ending consonant sounds

a problem in the story

Needless repetition, which adds no meaning or understanding.

A humorous imitation of a serious work.

Repetition of ending consonant sounds.

Reference to another work or famous figure

a metaphor that extends throughout entire poem and not just one line

Something, which has as its primary purpose to teach or instruct.

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant.

words that sound like what they mean