____________________ is the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.

A stanza of seven lines used by Chaucer, usually in iambic pentameter, with the rhyme scheme ababbcc, is known as...

________________ is the time and place (or when and where) of the story. It’s a literary element of literature used in novels, short stories, plays, films, etc., and usually introduced during the exposition (beginning) of the story, along with the characters. The setting may also include the environment of the story, which can be made up of the physical location, climate, weather, or social and cultural surroundings.

A two-syllable foot with two stressed accents. The opposite of a pyrrhic foot, this foot is used for effect. It is known as __________________.

"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright" is an example of stressed/unstressed feet. It is called...

_____________ is the specific type of language used by a particular group or profession. It can be used to describe correctly used technical language in a positive way. Or, it can describe language which is overly technical, obscure, and pretentious in a negative way.

Quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter rhyming a b a b are known as ______________________.

It is said that ______________________, an unstressed stressed foot elevates speech to poetry .It is the most natural and common kind of meter in English.

Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identically but pronounced differently are called ____________________. Example: bear/fear, dough/cough/through/bough

______________ is a four-line stanza or poetic unit. In an English or Shakespearean sonnet, a group of four lines united by rhyme.

____________________ is a three-lined verse, or a group, or unit of three lines. These three lines are often rhymed together, or they rhyme with another triplet. It has a flow of words as rolling waves.

_____________________ is any poem or stanza with five lines. It can follow any meter or line length.

Any poem or stanza in a poem consisting of seven lines, and of any form or meter is called a ________________. It falls in-between the two ingredients of a sonnet, the octave and the sestet, and although a popular form for a short while has lost favour.

Rhyming words of two syllables in which the first syllable is accented (flower, shower) are known as...

_________________ are rhyming words of three or more syllables in which any syllable but the last is accented.

A near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels.

The process of marking beats in a poem to establish the prevailing metrical pattern is known as ____________________.

Also called "galloping meter," this is unstressed/unstressed/stressed syllables. What is it?

________________ stressed unstressed unstressed meter is a pattern more common in Latin poetry than in English poetry.

A story within a story is known as an _________________. It has a “surface story” and another story hidden underneath. In most allegories, the hidden story has something to do with politics, religion, or morality — complex subjects that are difficult to understand directly. Many authors find it easier to think through these issues by translating them into allegories, which are easier to understand (and more fun to read) than dense philosophical arguments.

________________, also known as antimeria, is the usage of a word in a new grammatical form, most often the usage of a noun as a verb.

What is the literary term in which a descriptive phrase replaces a person’s name? It can range from lighthearted nicknames to epic names.

Animal Farm by George Orwell is one of the most well-known ______________________ ever written.

What is this an example of?

"Pensive poets are nattering nabobs of negativism."

"When she lost her job, she acted like Ebenezer Scrooge with her money," is an example of _____________________ to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

If a story takes place before the creation of 911 (1968) and someone in an emergency situation calls 911, the writer has created an __________________________ in his story.

The highlighted phrase in the following passage from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens exemplifies what literary term?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

In JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, the _______________________ is Harry Potter himself, while the primary ____________________ is Lord Voldemort.

From Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin"

Yeah, you keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’

And you keep losing when you oughta not bet

You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’

Now, what’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet

The red words represent which literary term?

Deadpool, Punisher, and Wolverine are all good comic book examples of _____________________.

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country," is a great quote. It's also an example of _______________________.

"Love is the ideal thing; marriage is the real thing," is an example of __________________ at work.

The Bard is Shakespeare's nickname. It is also an example of ________________________.

All the greatest Christian theologians and philosophers – from Saint Paul and Saint Thomas Aquinas to Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich – have written _________________ for their faith, because they used reason to defend the validity of the Christian faith. They do not apologize for it.

When Wordsworth writes a poem speaking to Milton after Milton's death, he is using __________________________.

Obi-Wan-Kenobi is an example of The Mentor, which is an ________________________.

"Please take me to the deep green sea," is an example of _____________________.

When Johnny Cash performs the song, "The Long Black Veil," he is performing a ________________.

In Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations, readers watch as Pip grows up and comes of age. This is an example of what type of story?

Shakespeare's plays are almost all written in ___________________________________.

In Emily Dickinson's "I am Nobody! Who are You?" the poet pauses within the lines:

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

This is known as ____________________.

Edna St. Vincent Millay's short poem, "Fig From Thistles: First Fig" is about doing much with life:

My candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night;

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—

It gives a lovely light!

It is defiant and proud. It is an example of ___________________________.

JK Rowling uses _________________ when describing Harry Potter for the first time in the series:

Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark

cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley’s, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning.

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," is an example of ____________________________.

The _______________________ is when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

What type of conflict is this?

Darth Vader and Obi-Wan-Kenobi having a lightsaber battle on the Death Star.

What type of conflict is this?

Tony Stark battles his own arrogance and self-serving ego to become Iron Man and save the world.

What type of conflict is this?

When Oedipus defies the gods who said he’d kill his father and marry his mother by moving as far away from his parents as he can and he unwittingly murders his father and marries his mother.

What type of conflict is this?

Chuck Nolan is lost on a desert island and learns how to survive using the resources the island provides. He does befriend a volleyball along the way….

What type of conflict is this?

Atticus Finch, a white lawyer, in To Kill a Mockingbird shows Atticus defending a black man in a racist society.

What type of conflict is this?

Agent Fox Mulder’s entire journey in the television show X-Files.

What type of conflict is this?

In the movie, Terminator, a killer robot is sent back in time to assassinate Sarah Connor.

"In the shadow meadow we pressed, passed; sipped, and supped," is an example of_______________________.

The _____________________ of Star Wars IV: A New Hope occurs at the end of the filmLuke and Han return to Leia on Yavin IV, where they are awarded medals.

The eagles in virtually all of JRR Tolkien’s work come in near the end of a story and save the day. They are like the _____________________________ waiting to work.

___________________ is a plot device whereby you introduce an item in the first part of your novel that doesn't seem important to the story at the time, but takes on greater significance later on. The principle was expressed by the great Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, who said that if you put a gun on stage in the first act of a play, it should be fired in the second act. According to some sources, he also expressed this in the negative form as: don't put a gun on stage in the first act unless you intend to have it fired in the second.

__________________ is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation.

__________________ is a term that describes the repetition of a word for emphasis.

__________________ describes the repetition of the same word, and also of words related etymologically, in different senses or cases or voices.

An ____________________ is a contradiction of terms—a two-word paradox—often used to add humor, dramatic effect, or meaning according to context.

This term comes from Greek and means not bonded or not connected. Simply put, asyndeton omits conjunctions (words that connect like and, or, nor, for, so, yet, but) between words, phrases, or clauses. What is it?

________________________ is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause in a list—many connections—instead of commas.

When a sentence ends abruptly with a grammatical structure that’s syntactically or otherwise different—and unexpected—from the one it started with, it is known as...

The technique of raising a question and then answering it is known as what? It's known as _______________.

__________________doesn’t pose a direct question. Instead, it simply anticipates reader objection and addresses it.

A figure of speech related to hyperbole that emphasizes the inexpressibility of some thing, idea, or feeling, either by stating that words cannot describe it, or by comparing it with something (e.g. the heavens, the oceans) the dimensions of which cannot be grasped. What is it?

What is the name of the form of comic verse named after its inventor, that consists of two metrically awkward couplets, and usually presents a ludicrously uninformative ‘biography’ of some famous person whose name appears as one of the rhymed words in the first couplet?

A written composition that deliberately avoids using a particular letter of the alphabet is known as a ___________________.

A __________________ is a piece of writing, usually a poem, in which the first letter of every word in a line follows the order of the alphabet.

When the same word or phrase is used at the end of one sentence or clause and the beginning of the next sentence or clause, it is called...

_________________ occurs when a word or phrase is used repeatedly, but the meaning of the word is not the same each time it’s used.

When the ending of a word is dropped to make a new word, it is known as _________________.

A barber named Harry Shears has a name that is an ___________________________.

A barber's whose name is Shakey McCutyou is probably a barber you wouldn't want.... His name is an __________________.

When should you sing an aubade?

Catachresis: When you use a word in a way that isn’t correct given the context, often for poetic effect, you are using the literary term ______________________.

An ________________________ is a poem or song written in celebration of a marriage.

Also called a “transferred epithet,” what literary device jumbles up syntax in order to make a sentence nonsensical?

A text that mixes two or more languages, often for comedic effect, is known as a ____________________ text.

A sudden, and usually inexplicable or ironic, turn of events or reversal of fortunes is known as...

In literature, the final action that completes the unraveling of the plot in a play, especially in a tragedy. _________________________ is a synonym of denouement. The term is sometimes applied to a similar action in a novel or story.

The part of a story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. This occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends. It could be referred to as the denouement but never the catastrophe.

The person of third importance in a story after the protagonist and the deuteragonist is the...

The person second in importance to the protagonist in a drama is known as the...

An edition of a work that contains annotations by various editors or commentators is called a...

________________ occurs when a work of fiction closely mimics reality; authenticity.

The artistic preference to depict everyday life instead of legends or tales of heroism is known as ________________.

The illustration of one idea by a more familiar or accessible idea that is in some way parallel is an...

If you were to say your uncle "bought the farm" when you meant he died, you are using which literary term?

____________________ is defined as the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one.

It is a literary device in which human emotions are attributed to aspects of nature, such as the weather. For instance, the weather can be used to reflect a person’s mood, with dark clouds or rain present in a scene involving sorrow. It’s a form of personification in which human emotions are attributed to aspects of nature, such as the weather. What is it called?

Commonly, we refer to it in present day as "breaking the fourth wall" but it began in plays when characters would talk directly to the audience. What was it originally known as?

A ________________________ is a word that conjures up other meanings or sparks thoughts of something else. We tend to ask what _________________________ words or phrase have when trying to figure out their meaning.

________________________ is when you describe something by using a part of it to stand in for the whole, or by using one thing to stand in for a whole class of things.

In literature or other writing, an ____________ is a moment when meaning breaks down and becomes fragmented, contradictory, or murky. Often, it is used poetically to suggest a breakdown in our ability to understand certain aspects of life or reality.

When the narrator cannot be believed, the narrator is ________________________.

A __________________________ Metaphor is a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work. A metaphor, but drawn out throughout your entire writing piece.

Dudley Do-Right is an example of a _____________________.

In the show Breaking Bad, there are several of these. One of the most significant is the throw rug that Ted trips on and almost falls over in the first few minutes of S4E11. Later in the same episode, he trips on it again. This time he falls and hits his head so hard he nearly dies. This is an example of the writers using ______________________ to help move the story alone.