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Question 1

Asyndeton (N)

Answer 1

The omission of conjunctions that coordinate words and phrases Ex: without looking, breathing, making a sound

Question 2

Audience (N)

Answer 2

The group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art

Question 3

Balanced Sentence (N)

Answer 3

A sentence that uses parallel structure and has clauses that are equally long and equally important Ex: Light is faster, but we are safer.

Question 4

Ballad (N)

Answer 4

A story in poetic form, often tragic love Ex: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Sir Patrick spens

Question 5

Bathos

Answer 5

An abrupt turn from serious and poetic to regular and silly in literature Ex: Mary: John - we once had something that was pure, and wonderful, and good

Question 6

Blank Verse

Answer 6

Poetry without rhyme but usually has iambic pentameter rhythm, often resembles ordinary speech

Question 7

Caesura

Answer 7

A pause in mid-verse, often marked by punctuation

Question 8

Chiasmus

Answer 8

A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed Ex: Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you

Question 9

Cliche

Answer 9

Overused, worn-out word or phrase, not literal Ex: time will tell, a diamond in the rough,

Question 10

Climax

Answer 10

Structural part of the plot, often referred to as the crisis or high point Ex: when Romeo and Juliet die

Question 11

Colloquialism

Answer 11

Use of slang words or phrases in literature Ex: Y’all

Question 12

Conceit

Answer 12

A kind of metaphor that compares two very unlikely things in a surprising and clever way

Question 13

Concrete Poetry

Answer 13

Poem that visually resembles something it discusses

Question 14

Conduplicatio

Answer 14

Repetition in which the key word(s) in a phrase, clause, or sentence repeats at or near the beginning of successive sentences

Question 15

Connotation

Answer 15

A word’s emotional or social content, not actual definition

Question 16

Consonance

Answer 16

Recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity Ex: He struck a streak of bad luck.

Question 17

Convention

Answer 17

A characteristic of a literary genre that is understood and accepted by audiences; a defining feature of a genre Ex: “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Fables have a moral.

Question 18

Couplet

Answer 18

A pair of rhyming lines in a poem (only 2)
Ex: Hear the honking of the goose
I think He’s angry at the moose

Question 19

Denotation

Answer 19

The literal meaning of a word

Question 20

Deux ex machina

Answer 20

An unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel Ex: (a solution that is to easy…)