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Question 1

oxymoron

Answer 1

a combination of opposites: the union of contradictory terms
- Romeo: “feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”

Question 2

parable

Answer 2

a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question
- allegorical stories

Question 3

paradox

Answer 3

a statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true
- “i love but hate her”

Question 4

parallel structure

Answer 4

a similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph
- winston churchill: “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields”
- mlk: “i have a dream” speech depends on parallel structure

Question 5

parody

Answer 5

a composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect
- saturday night live

Question 6

pentameter

Answer 6

a line containing five feet
- iambic pentameter

Question 7

periodic sentence

Answer 7

a sentence grammatically complete only at the end. a loose sentence is grammatically complete before the period
(1) periodic: “when conquering love did first my heart assail, unto mine aid I summoned every sense.”
(2) loose: “fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair”

periodic sentences: complete the important idea at the end
loose sentences: put important idea first

Question 8

personification

Answer 8

a figurative use of language which endows the nonhuman with human characteristics
- keats personifies the nightingale, the grecian urn, and autumn

Question 9

point of view

Answer 9

points form which a story is told; omniscient, limited to that of a single character, or limited to that of several characters
- first person: wuthering heights, great expectations
- third person: mayor of castbridge, a tale of two cities

Question 10

polysyndeton

Answer 10

sentences, clauses, phrases, or words are linked by coordinating conjunctions
- milton’s paradise lost: describing satan “and swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or lies”

Question 11

reliability

Answer 11

a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust, there should be reliable and unreliable narrators (tellers of a story who should/should not be trusted)
- reliable narrators: nick carraway, conrad marlow)
- unreliable narrators: tell tale heart

Question 12

rhetorical question

Answer 12

a question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply.
- “shall i wasting in despair die because a lady’s fair?”

Question 13

rhetorical techniques

Answer 13

the devices used in effective or persuasive language
- contrast, repetition, paradox, understatement, sarcasm, rhetorical questions

Question 14

satire

Answer 14

writing that seeks to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule. used mostly in comedies that expose errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. it’s purpose is to promote change
- jonathan swift’s “a modest proposal”

Question 15

setting

Answer 15

the background to a story (physical location), involves both place and time
- setting of a tale of two cities: london and paris during the french revolution

Question 16

simile

Answer 16

a directly expressed comparison with like/as/than
- my love is like a fever

Question 17

soliloquy

Answer 17

a speech in which a character who is alone speaks his/her thoughts aloud. a monologue also has a single speaker, but the monologuist speaks to others who do not interrupt. soliloquist is not heard by anyone on stage, only the audience hears it

Question 18

sonnet

Answer 18

a 14 line, highly structured poem. the conventional italian sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde dce; the english sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, eded, gg. modern sonnets may not use the traditional form and meter but usually will be 14 lines

Question 19

sound devices

Answer 19

the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. used to create a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning
- rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia

Question 20

stanza

Answer 20

usually a repeated grouping of 3+ lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme