Lit Match
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Topics of this game:
- A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known histor
- A speaker’s, author’s, or character’s disposition toward or opinion of a subject.
- Details are items or parts that make up a larger picture or story.
- The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry, such as rhyme, alliteration
- word choice
- Writing that seeks to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule
- The background to a story; the physical location of a play, story, or novel.
- a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with “like,” “as,” or “than.”
- something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else.
- main thought expressed by a work
- A story in which people, things, and events have another symbolic meaning.
- Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present.
- The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation).
- The dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation.
- Explicitly instructive
- The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work.
- A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
- Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete
- The special language of a profession or group.
- The structure of a sentence
- To restrict or limit in meaning.
- A line of four feet
- Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
- A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
- A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.
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