20 Words With Oren #2

Front 1

Allegory

Back 1

In Animal Farm, it was on Hitler coming to power.

Front 2

Alliteration

Back 2

The tongue twister Peter Piper is difficult to say.

Front 3

Ballad

Back 3

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a simple poem with melody.

Front 4

Blank Verse

Back 4

John Milton's famous poem Comus has verses that don't rhyme.

Front 5

Closed form

Back 5

this is:
I know I'm feeling
She is appealing

this is not:
It you wish upon a star
Stuff happens

Front 6

Connotation

Back 6

In Harry Potter, people call Voldamort "the dark lord" because his name is unmentionable.

Front 7

Epigram

Back 7

There are many of these on people's tombstones.

Front 8

Exposition

Back 8

Martin Luther King Jr. conveyed a lot of information and feeling in his speeches.

Front 9

Falling Meter

Back 9

Gandhi states many wise, but also confusing statements that include words that go from stressed syllables, and fall to unstressed.

Front 10

Foil

Back 10

In Odysseus, many trials prevent the hero from succeeding in his goal to get home.

Front 11

Foreshadowing

Back 11

In many books such as in Of Mice and Men, there are many clues hinted at the reader for what will happen next.

Front 12

Free Verse

Back 12

People who don't write structured poems can still write beautifully without following a fixed pattern.

Front 13

Irony

Back 13

In Cinderella, she starts off as her step mother and step sister's slave, then becomes a princess and they become the ones that do her chores. It reverses.

Front 14

Literal Language

Back 14

In soap operas, there is very little figurative language.

Front 15

Octane

Back 15

this is:
C8H18;uses all (18) hydrocarbons

this isnt:
H2O

Front 16

Onomatopoeia

Back 16

this is:
the cow goes "mooooo"

this isn't:
the firetruck is red

Front 17

Open Form

Back 17

Poets can also use another non patterned form of poetry besides free verse such as in Wallace Stevens poems.

Front 18

Personification

Back 18

People who have slight hearing loss have to have words expounded to them through action.

Front 19

Protagonist

Back 19

In Spiderman, the main character (hero) is a regular civilian that has a secret identity.

Front 20

Denouncement

Back 20

In the end of a great story, the villian is lowered to a more formal class than he/she started.