English Terms

Question 1

Lyric

Answer 1

A poem with a musical and emotional mood, expressing feeling, perception, or state of mind.

Question 2

Elegy

Answer 2

A dark poem that alternates between 6 foot and 5 foot lines.

Question 3

Sonnet

Answer 3

A poem with 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme, written in iambic pentameter. In Shakespearean sonnets, the rhyme scheme is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG. The first quatrain establishes subject, the second and third explore theme, and the fourth acts as a conclusion.

Question 4

Soliloquy

Answer 4

A speech where a character is speaking to him/herself.

Question 5

Epic

Answer 5

A long narrative poem about heroic feats.

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

A figure of speech that juxtaposes contradictory term. “A fine mess”

Question 7

Ballad

Answer 7

Poem intended to be sung.

Question 8

Malapropism

Answer 8

A deliberate misspeak, used by the author to show intelligence or lack therof.

Question 9

Pun

Answer 9

A joke where a word is replaced with a similar sounding word or it uses the different meanings of a word to be funny.

Question 10

Prose

Answer 10

Ordinary literature, without meter.

Question 11

Rhyme Royal

Answer 11

a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, 1 – 3, 2 – 4/5, 6 – 7

Question 12

Parody

Answer 12

A satirical or humorous version of serious literature.

Question 13

Assonance

Answer 13

Repetition of vowel sounds (THROUGHOUT the word).

Question 14

Consonance

Answer 14

Repetition of consonant sounds (THROUGHOUT the word).

Question 15

Onomatopoeia

Answer 15

A word that sounds like the sound it represents. E.g. moo

Question 16

Symbolic

Answer 16

Serving as a symbol; with a deeper meaning/representation.

Question 17

Imagery

Answer 17

Use of descriptive language to add depth.

Question 18

Metonymy

Answer 18

Using a part of something to represent the whole.

Question 19

Synecdoche

Answer 19

Using a closely related item to represent something else.

Question 20

First Person POV

Answer 20

When the character narrates the story directly to the reader using “I”, advantage is knowing characger’s opinions.

Question 21

Third Person Limited Omniscient

Answer 21

When the thoughts of only 1 character is revealed, but from the perspective of someone “outside” the story, using he/she.

Question 22

Third Person Omniscient

Answer 22

The thoughts of several or all of the characters are revealed, i.e. “from God’s perspective”

Question 23

Third Person Objective

Answer 23

Only the actions are described, there is no insight as to why characters are acting a certain way, i.e. observer, recorder, camera