"If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."

(Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways. Little Brown, 1965)



This is an example of an___________________.

You find Mr. Myers talking lovingly to his Prius, which gets 50-60 MMPG on his commute to Salem high School. You know he is just making an

"The Cold Equations" was told from the ________________ of the spaceship's pilot, Barton.

An author sets up the _________________ of a literary work by creating a certain atmosphere or emotional feeling.

One way to develop rhythm in poetry is through the use of alliteration.



The general term for the study of rhythm and meter in poetry is _______________.