American Lit Vocab (days 11-20)

Question 1

the way a writer writes

Answer 1

style

Question 2

statement in concise and witty manor

Answer 2

aphorism

Question 3

form a narrator tells story through

Answer 3

voice

Question 4

the language w/ no formal metrical structure

Answer 4

prose

Question 5

line with 6 feet

Answer 5

hexameter

Question 6

the angle of considering things

Answer 6

point of view

Question 7

the authors mouthpiece

Answer 7

persona

Question 8

a history self-told

Answer 8

autobiography

Question 9

consists of three iambic feet

Answer 9

trimeter

Question 10

two unaccented, short syllables

Answer 10

pyrrhic

Question 11

abstract ideas & principles are characters and events

Answer 11

allegory

Question 12

attitude of the writer

Answer 12

tone

Question 13

use of informal words or slang

Answer 13

colloquiallism

Question 14

poetry w/o regular meter or fixed rhyme

Answer 14

free verse

Question 15

repetition of the first part of a sentence

Answer 15

anaphora

Question 16

asked for effect only

Answer 16

rhetorical question

Question 17

figurative language appeals to the senses

Answer 17

imagery

Question 18

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 18

blank verse

Question 19

a line of four metrical feet

Answer 19

tetrameter

Question 20

unlikely but imaginative comparison

Answer 20

conceit

Question 21

two or more parallel clauses

Answer 21

balanced sentence

Question 22

line with five strong metrical feet

Answer 22

pentameter