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English Test 1 (Literature) Flashcards

1
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What are recurring or emerging ideas in a work

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Theme

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2
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What is language used on more than one level of meaning

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Figurative language

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3
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What is an expressed comparison using the words “like” or “as”

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Simile

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4
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What is a suggested comparison that compares two dissimilar things

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Metaphor

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5
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The ___?___ of a metaphor is the original subject being described

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Tenor

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6
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The ___?___ is the image the tenor is being compared to

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Vehicle

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7
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What are metaphors that are indirectly conveyed

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Implied Comparison

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8
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What are metaphors developed beyond a single sentence or comparison

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Extended Metaphor

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9
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What is a type of extended metaphor that has multiple layers of meaning and symbolism

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Allegory

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10
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What is an expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself

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Metonymy

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11
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What uses a part of something to stand for the whole

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Synecdoche

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12
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What is an extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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13
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What is the opposite of what is expected

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Irony

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14
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What is saying the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm)

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Verbal Irony

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15
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What is the use of repeated words or phrases throughout a work

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Repetition

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16
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What is similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses or sentences

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Parallelism

17
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What refers to words that are pleasant and musical to the ear

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Euphony

18
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What describes language of harshness

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Cacophony

19
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What gives human characteristics to something that is not human

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Personification

20
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What is literature that addresses absent person, abstraction, or object

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Apostrophe

21
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Who wrote “A bird Came Down the Walk”

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Emily Dickinson

22
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Who wrote “The Spider and the Wasp”

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Alexander Petrunkevitch

23
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Who wrote “The Nightingale and the Glowworm”

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William Cowper

24
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What kind of imaginative comparison is “The Nightingale and the Glowworm”

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Allegory

25
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Who wrote “What Stumped the Bluejays”

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Mark Twain

26
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What kind of imaginative comparison is “What Stumped the Bluejays”

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Personification

27
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Who wrote “The Return of the Rangers”

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Kenneth Roberts

28
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Who wrote “Mother to Son”

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Langston Hughes

29
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What kind of imaginative comparison is “Mother to Son”

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Metaphor

30
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Who wrote “The Soul’s Dark Cottage”

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Edmund Waller

31
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What kind of imaginative comparison is “The Soul’s Dark Cottage”

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Metaphor, for what happens to a person’s soul and body as he grows older

32
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Who wrote “The Windows”

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George Herbert

33
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What is the imaginative comparison in “The Windows”

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Metaphor, for Christians

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