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What is theme?
The topic of a paragraph or a segment of text
The lesson or principle revealed by the story
When a theme is relatable by a wide range of readers
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work
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What is a paradox?
A statement that contradicts itself and is still true anyway
A statement where 2 opposite ideas join to create an effect
A complete and detailed analysis of a work of literature
One perception of a different or even opposite feeling
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What is a soliloquy?
A character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by others
A type of poem in which a speaker addresses the readers
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself
A short but definite pause within a line of poetry
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What is an oxymoron?
A statement where 2 opposite ideas join to create an effect
A statement that contradicts itself and is still true anyway
Formation of a word from a sound associated w/ what is named
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things
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What is personification?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things to create imagery
The elements in a poem that spark off the senses
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things
To make an animal/object behave&appear like human beings
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What is imagery?
A comparison between two unlike things,
One perception in terms of an an opposite feeling
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things
Visually descriptive or figurative language
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What is symbolism?
A story with two levels of meaning
Images are references that trigger the mind to create senses
A recurrent image that develops or explains a theme
Use of symbols to signify ideas by having symbolic meanings
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What is blank verse poem?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
A narrative poem composed of quatrains
Two successive rhyming lines
Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
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What is repetition?
Repetition of the last word in a line or clause
Repetition of the same word at the end of each clause
A device that repeats a same phrase to make an idea clearer
Repetition of words or phrases in opposite sense
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What is a metaphor?
A comparison between 2 dissimilar things;uses "like" or "as"
An idea is compared to another idea that is quite different
A comparison between two unlike things
A comparison of 2 things that continues throughout a poem
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What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter:3 quatrains & a couplet
A six-line stanza or unit of poetry
8 lines and 6 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
A closed form of 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
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What is an alliteration?
Repetition of the same phrase at the beginning of a line
Repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words.
Repetition of identical consonant sounds in close proximity.
Repetition of identical concluding syllables
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What is an iambic pentameter?
An unstressed stressed foot
Quatrains of iambic tetrameter
Two unstressed feet
The number of feet within a line of traditional verse
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What is a monologue?
A character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by others
A type of poem in which a speaker addresses the readers
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
A narrative poem composed of quatrains
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What is a rhyme scheme?
A near rhyme where ending consonants are same but not vowels
The pattern of rhyme
rhyming words of two syllables
Rhyming words of three or more syllables
