Exam

Question 1

Ambiguity

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Deliberately suggesting two or more different/ conflicting meanings in a work

Question 2

Analogy

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Comparison of two things to show they are alike

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of word or phrase at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row

Question 4

Antihero

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Central character lacking all qualities traditionally associated with heroes.

Question 5

Apostrophe

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Calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person, place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.

Question 6

Comedy

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in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters.

Question 7

Colloquialism

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a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations.

Question 8

Connotation

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Associations and emotional overtones attached to a word/phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition

Question 9

Conceit

Answer 9

an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different

Question 10

Dialect

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Way of speaking typical of a certain social group or geographical area.

Question 11

Epic

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Long poem recounting the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the value of a particular society

Question 12

Epigraph

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Quotation/ aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.

Question 13

Fable

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Short story time in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in Life

Question 14

Farce

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Type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far fetched situations.

Question 15

Foreshadowing

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Use of hints/ clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

Question 16

Hyperbole

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A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect.

Question 17

Inversion

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The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase

Question 18

Dramatic irony

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Where a character thinks one thing is true, but the audience knows better.

Question 19

Situational irony

Answer 19

Takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen

Question 20

Juxtaposition

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Where normally unassociated ideas, are placed next to one another, creating

Question 21

Litotes

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Is a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form

Question 22

Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as than, or resembles.

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which a noun is referred to by something closely associated with it.

Question 24

Motivation

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The reasons for a characters behavior

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Parable

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Short story teaching a moral about how to lead a good life

Question 26

Paradox

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Statement appearing self contradictory but reveals a kind of truth

Question 27

Omniscient point of view

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Omniscient/ all knowing narrator tells the story, using 3rd person pronouns

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Objective point of view

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A narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events

Question 29

Parallel structure

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The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures

Question 30

Protagonist

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Central character who initiates action

Question 31

Ballad

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A popular narrative song passed down orally

Question 32

Caesura

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a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by punctuation ​or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause.

Question 33

Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter, with the same end-rhymes.

Question 34

Elegy

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a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died

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Enjambment

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the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.

Question 36

Eulogy

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s great praise or commendation, a
laudatory speech, often about someone who has died.

Question 37

Romance

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in general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful

Question 38

Satire

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a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change

Question 39

Soliloquy

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a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage

Question 40

Sonnet

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normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem

Question 41

Stereotype

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a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality, often
based on religious, social, or racial prejudices

Question 42

Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole.

Question 43

Theme

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​the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.

Question 44

Tragedy

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​in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy

Question 45

Villanelle

Answer 45

a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain.