English Vocab 2

Question 0

Folk Ballad

Answer 0

characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

A short simple narrative song

Question 2

Literary Ballad

Answer 2

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Question 3

Couplet

Answer 3

A pair of rhymed lines

Question 4

Tone

Answer 4

The attitude of a work toward its subject. Tone is the emotional view of the subject (indignation, awe, compassion, derision, etc.) the reader is meant to sharewiththeauthor.Interpretationoftoneiscrucial in determining and evaluating meaning.

Question 5

Quatrains

Answer 5

A four line stanza

Question 6

Romance

Answer 6

This meandering tale of adventure celebrated the exploits and manners of a questing knight and emphasized the ideals of a civilized society

Question 7

Didacticism

Answer 7

Instruction in literature

Question 8

Mock Epic

Answer 8

treats a trivial subject in heroic terms

Question 9

Plot

Answer 9

A connected series of incidents

Question 10

Atmosphere

Answer 10

The emotion pervading a work

Question 11

Hyperbole

Answer 11

An over exaggeration or overstatement

Question 12

Symbolism

Answer 12

An object that stands for something else as well as for itself

Question 13

Understatement

Answer 13

Implies more than what was said

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related