Stack #229935 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Allegory | an interpretation of a written work that can uncover a hidden meaning |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same sound/letter at the beginning of adjacent words |
| Allusion | an indirect expression to call something to mind |
| Analogy | comparison between two things (on the basis of their structure) |
| Assonance | repetition of vowels |
| Apostrophe | passage addressed to someone who is dead/absent or a thing |
| Aside | something said in a play by a character that is supposed to be heard by the audience but by no one else on stage |
| Ballad | a poem/song narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Blank Verse | verse without rhyme |
| Caricature | grossly exaggerated portrayal of something |
| Consonance | repetition of similar sounds with consonants |
| Didactic | intented to teach a moral lesson |
| Dissonance | deliberate avoidance of assonance |
| Elegy | mournful poem |
| Epic | a long poetic composition usually centered upon a hero in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
| Epilogue | concluding part of a work |
| Epigram | expressing an idea in a clever, amusing way |
| Epiphany | sudden insight |
| Epitaph | a phrase written in memory of a dead person |
| Euphemism | mild indirect word substituted for a harsher one |
| Euphony | pleasing to the ear |
| Foil | something that contrasts with and consequentially emphasizes and enhances it |
| Iambic Pentameter | a type of meter: |
| Idiom | a group of words that have a meaning that can not be deduced by the original words |
| Oxymoron | "to make haste slowly" contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
| Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self |
| Pathos | appeal to emotions |
| Proverb | a general truth, common saying |
| Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word |
| Quatrain | a stanza or poem of four lines usually with alternate rhymes. |
| Sestet | last six lines of a sonnet |
| Soliloquy | speaking ones thoughts aloud |
| Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines |
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