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Question | Answer |
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What is a Simile? | comparing two things with "like" or "as" |
What is a metaphor? | Comparison of one thing to another without using "like" or "as" |
What is a Prologue? | Introduction to a book, play, etc. |
What is Exposition? | Background information on the setting, characters, events, etc. |
What is an oxymoron | Opposite words that go together |
What is an Anti-thesis? | Opposite ideas that are put together to contrast |
What is a message? | The meaning of the study that the reader is supposed to get; theme |
What is a moral? | A lesson |
What is satire? | Use of humor or exaggeration to ridicule |
What is a round character? | A character that has experienced a conflict and was changed by it |
What is a flat character? | A character that stays the same through |
Whatis a Heroic couplet? | Pair of rhyming iambic pentameters |
What is a sonnet? | A poem of 14 lines |
What is a poem? | A piece of writing that has a certain structure |
What is Alliteration? | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a literary piece |
What is Allusion? | A brief and indirect reference to a place, person, or event |
What is Assonance? | Two or more words close in meaning that repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds |
What is Consonance? | Repetition of the same consonant pattern two or more times |
What is Iambic Pentameter | Ten syllables per line |