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Poetry vocab words!!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Theme | The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. |
| Tone | the implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work, |
| Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The ______ may occur within a character as well as between characters. |
| Allegory | A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. ______ often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. |
| Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |