5th Group (decorum-enjambment)

Question 0

Diction

Answer 0

Author’s choice of words

Question 1

Decorum

Answer 1

Character’s speech must be styled according to social station and in accordance with the occasion

Question 2

Syntax

Answer 2

Ordering and structuring of words

Question 3

Dirge

Answer 3

A song for the dead; slow, heavy, melancholy

Question 4

Dissonance

Answer 4

The grating of incompatible sounds

Question 5

Doggerel

Answer 5

Crude, simplistic verse, often in singsong rhyme. Examples are limericks.

Question 6

Dramatic irony

Answer 6

When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.

Question 7

Dramatic monologue

Answer 7

When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience

Question 8

Elegy

Answer 8

A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. Elegies often use the recent death of a noted person or loved one as a starting point. They also memorialize specific dead people.

Question 9

Elements

Answer 9

The basic techniques of each genre of literature

Question 10

Encampment

Answer 10

The continuation of syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a a poem to the next with no pause