Chapter 2

Question 1

What is an anachronism?

Answer 1

a detail in writing that isn’t appropriate for its time setting. ex: woman in victorian england using a cell phone

Question 2

What is a euphemism?

Answer 2

an inoffensive phrase used to replace a direct/more offensive expression. ex: She died–> She passed on.

Question 3

What are these? -Form of English poetry -Have pairs of rhyming lines with 5 stresses to each line (iambic pentameter). Used by Chaucer and poets of 17th, 18th century.

Answer 3

HEROIC COUPLETS

Question 4

What is antithesis (literary element)?

Answer 4

A figure of speech that balances an idea with a contrasting one. Ex: Some say the world will end in fire/some say ice. Ex: To be or not to be.

Question 5

What is assonance (literary element)?

Answer 5

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 6

What are the 3 types of irony?

Answer 6

Verbal, situational, dramatic

Question 7

What is verbal irony?

Answer 7

Saying one thing and meaning another. Ex: Soft like a brick. Hard as putty.

Question 8

What is situational irony?

Answer 8

When a situation in reality is much different than what a character thinks. Ex: The marriage counselor files for divorce.

Question 9

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 9

When the audience is aware of something that the characters are not. Ex: Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.

Question 10

What is a malapropism? (mal a propos = ill suited to the purpose)

Answer 10

A word mistaken for another word with a similar sound. Ex: “persisted” –> desisted

Question 11

What are 4 different kinds of meter (measuring the rhythm)?

Answer 11

1. Iambic (_ / ) 2. Trochaic ( / _ ) 3. Anapestic ( _ _ / ) 4. Dactylic ( / _ _ ) / = stressed syllable in the line

Question 12

What is a figure of speech in which a word is substituted for another word which it is somehow linked or closely associated?

Answer 12

Metonymy Ex: Pen is mightier than the sword. Let me give you a hand. Great Britain = British government

Question 13

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 13

A PHRASE that includes words that seem contradictory. Ex: Act naturally. Passive aggressive.

Question 14

This is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole. old man = graybeard suits= businessmen wheels = car

Answer 14

Synechdoche

Question 15

What is a soliloquy? (diff’t than monologue)

Answer 15

Dramatic speech in which a character talks to himself and the audience can hear. Ex: Brutus contemplating murdering Caeser.

Question 16

What is considered the birthplace of drama?

Answer 16

Athens. Ex: Oedipus the King (Sophocles) is one of the greatest Greek dramas.

Question 17

Name the difference between active and passive voice.

Answer 17

Active is when the emphasis is in the subject doing something but Passive is when something is being done to subject