English Words (pgs 1&2)

Question 1

Active Voice

Answer 1

pertains to any sentence with an active verb

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities

Question 3

Alliteration

Answer 3

repetition of the same initial consonant sound of words that are close in proximity

Question 4

Allusion

Answer 4

reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture; an indirect reference to something, usually from literature

Question 5

Ambiguity

Answer 5

deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work

Question 6

Analogy

Answer 6

comparison made between two things to show how they are alike

Question 7

Anaphora

Answer 7

a deliberate repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row to help make the writer’s point more coherent

Question 8

Anastrophe

Answer 8

inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence in order to create rhythm, emphasis, or euphony

Question 9

Anecdote

Answer 9

brief story, tol to illustrate a point or serve as n example of something, often show character of an individual

Question 10

Antagonist

Answer 10

opponent who struggles against or blocks the protagonist in a story; not always a human

Question 11

Antimetabole

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which words or clauses from the first half of a sentence are repeated in the second half of the sentence in reverse order

Question 12

Antithesis

Answer 12

figure of speech in which a thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in parallel arrangement

Question 13

Antihero

Answer 13

central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes

Question 14

Anthropomorphism

Answer 14

a type of personification where human characteristics are attributed to an animal; fables almost always use this technique

Question 15

Aphorism

Answer 15

bried, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or general truth

Question 16

Apostrophe

Answer 16

calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea as if he/she/it can hear you or answer you; if the character is asking a deity or supernatural power for help or inspiration, it is called an invocation

Question 17

Assonance

Answer 17

the repetition of similar vowel sounds of words that are in close proximity; usually only recognized in verse

Question 18

Asyndeton

Answer 18

commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally

Question 19

Ballad

Answer 19

a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB

Question 20

Blank Verse

Answer 20

This term is applied to any verse that doesn’t rhyme

Question 21

Byronic Hero

Answer 21

a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past

Question 22

Cacophony

Answer 22

the usage of several unharmonious or dissonant sounds in a line or passage

Question 23

Caesura

Answer 23

a pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry, usually marked with a period, dash, or semi-colon

Question 24

Canon

Answer 24

works generally considered by scholars, critics, and teachers to be the most important to study or read

Question 25

Catharsis

Answer 25

Aristotle’s word for the pity and fear an audience experiences upon viewing the downfall of a hero

Question 26

Characterization

Answer 26

the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

Question 27

Chiasmus

Answer 27

two or more clauses which are related grammatically and conceptually, but in which the grammar and concepts are reversed