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Question 1

euphemism

Answer 1

a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
- deceased for dead
- remains for corpse

Question 2

figurative language

Answer 2

writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language) such as metaphor, simile, and irony. uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning. language of comparison.
- the black bat night has flown (metaphor: night and bat)

Question 3

free verse

Answer 3

poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical
- walt whitman

Question 4

grotesque

Answer 4

characterized by distortions or incongruities
- fiction of Poe or Flannery O’Connor

Question 5

hyperbole

Answer 5

exaggeration/overstatement. self conscious without the intention of being accepted literally
- “the strongest man in the world”
- “a diamond as big as the Ritz”

Question 6

iamb

Answer 6

two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable

Question 7

imagery

Answer 7

the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. the visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work

Question 8

imperative

Answer 8

the mood of a verb that gives an order
- “eat your spinach” uses an imperative verb

Question 9

internal rhyme

Answer 9

rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end
- “god save thee, ancient mariner! from the fiends that plague thee thus! why look’st thou so? with my crossbow I shot the Albatross”
(internal rhyme: so and bow)

Question 10

irony

Answer 10

intent and actual meaning differ characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from a direct statement of its own obvious meaning. irony implies discrepancy. verbal irony (opposite of what one means)
- “men have died from time to time”
- “favorite son in law” - Mr. Bennet

Question 11

jargon

Answer 11

special language of a profession or group. negative association with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders

Question 12

literal

Answer 12

not figurative; matter of fact or concrete

Question 13

litotes

Answer 13

a form of understatement in which something is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite
- she was not a bad singer

Question 14

lyrical

Answer 14

songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination

Question 15

metaphor

Answer 15

comparison is expressed without the us of a comparative term (as, like, than).
- “the black bat night”
- “it is the east, and juliet is the sun” - Romeo

Question 16

metonymy

Answer 16

a figure of speech characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word for the word itself
- king –> the crown

Question 17

modify

Answer 17

to restrict or limit in meaning,
- “large, shaggy dog” (two adjectives modify the noun)
- “very, shaggy dog” (adverb ‘very’ modifies the adjective ‘shaggy’, which modifies the noun ‘dog’)

Question 18

narrative techniques

Answer 18

the methods involved in telling a story, the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. narrative techniques is a general term which asks you to discuss the procedures used in the telling of a story
- pov, manipulation of time, dialogue, interior monologue

Question 19

onamatopoeia

Answer 19

the use of words that suggests their meanings
- buzz, his, honk

Question 20

omniscient pov

Answer 20

the vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he/she chooses. the narrator is free to describe the thoughts of any of the characters, to skip about in time or place, or to speak directly to the reader
- novels of Austin, Dickens, and Hardy