English Termology

Question 1

unexpected reversal of fortune

Answer 1

Peripeteia

Question 2

fatal flaw in a character

Answer 2

Hamartia

Question 3

a mirroring character that reveals the flaws of the other

Answer 3

Foil

Question 4

known through the senses rather than through thought or intuition

Answer 4

Phenomenal

Question 5

String visual image

Answer 5

Pragmatographia –

Question 6

abstract treated as material

Answer 6

fication

Question 7

division into two parts

Answer 7

Dichotomy

Question 8

all knowledge based on experience

Answer 8

Empiricism

Question 9

transitional state

Answer 9

Liminality

Question 10

weird, uncanny yet strangely familiar

Answer 10

Unheimlich

Question 11

moral/political meaning of story

Answer 11

Allegorical

Question 12

open to more than one interpretation

Answer 12

Ambiguity

Question 13

separation from human existence

Answer 13

Abhuman

Question 14

harsh blunt language

Answer 14

Parrhesia

Question 15

begging/pleading

Answer 15

Exhortation

Question 16

dialogue where two characters speak alternate lines of verse

Answer 16

Sticomythia –

Question 17

repeated phrases but done so in reverse order

Answer 17

Chiasmus

Question 18

adjective characteristic of a person

Answer 18

Epithet

Question 19

A pithy saying which contains a general truth

Answer 19

Aphorism

Question 20

death drive

Answer 20

Todestrieb

Question 21

to counteract an argument based on emotion rather than case

Answer 21

Ad hominem

Question 22

reference to another literary work/culturally relevant trope etc.

Answer 22

Allusion

Question 23

a dominant or reoccurring idea in a literary work

Answer 23

Motif

Question 24

a distinctly recognisable character/narrative

Answer 24

Archetype

Question 25

where virtue is rewarded or vice is punished. Often by an ironic twist of fate

Answer 25

Poetic justice