4th Group (catharsis-couplet)

Question 0

Chorus

Answer 0

In drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it

Question 1

Catharsis

Answer 1

Cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences on stage

Question 2

Classic

Answer 2

Typical, an accepted masterpiece.

Classical refers to the arts of Ancient Greece and Rome and the qualities of those arts

Question 3

Coinage (neologism)

Answer 3

A new word invented on the spot; people’s names often become coinages. The technical word is neologism

Question 4

Colloquialism

Answer 4

A word or phrase used in conversational English that isn’t accepted as “schoolbook” English

Question 5

Complex, dense

Answer 5

There is more than one possibility in the meaning of words, there are subtleties and variations, there are multiple layers of interpretation, the meaning is both implicit and explicit.

Question 6

Conceit, controlling image

Answer 6

A startling, unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines. When the image domino a or shapes the entire work, it’s called a controlling image.

Question 7

Connotation, denotation

Answer 7

Denotation is a words literal meaning. Connotation is everything else the word suggests or implies.
Example: a dark forest
Dark is literally dark; but it implies danger and the unknown

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

The repetition of consonant sounds within words, rather than at their beginnings, which is alliteration.

Question 9

Couplet

Answer 9

A pair of lines that end in rhyme