Final Exam Review

Question 1

Iambic pentameter

Answer 1

the metrical pattern used by Shakespeare. 
5 iambs (unstressed, stressed) per line

Question 2

Foreshadowing

Answer 2

Suggesting, hinting, indicating or showing what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing provides hints about what will happen next

Question 3

Monologue

Answer 3

One character speaking alone for an extended period of time

Question 4

Soliloquy

Answer 4

A monologue spoken by an actor when they think they are alone.
Reveals the character’s innermost thoughts, feelings, state of mind, or intentions

Question 5

Rising action

Answer 5

Series of events leading up to the climax

Question 6

Climax

Answer 6

The protagonist reaches the peak of his or her power and a distinct change occurs in him/her as well as in the direction of the action

Question 7

Falling action

Answer 7

The antagonist begins to rise in power. The conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist becomes the essence of the plat

Question 8

Resolution

Answer 8

Glimpse of restored order

Question 9

Prose

Answer 9

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Question 10

Couplet

Answer 10

Two line stanzas

Question 11

Pun

Answer 11

A play on words

Question 12

Blank verse

Answer 12

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 13

Free verse

Answer 13

No disernable rhyme or meter, but short that look like verse as opposed to the sentences of prose

Question 14

Irony

Answer 14

The constrast between the apparent situation and the real situation

Question 15

Verbal irony

Answer 15

a contrast between what someone says and what he/she means

Question 16

Situational irony

Answer 16

a contrast between what it seems like will happen and what really does happens

Question 17

Dramatic

Answer 17

a contrast between what the audience or charcters know and what another character doesn’t know

Question 18

Sonnet

Answer 18

A lyrical poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns

Question 19

Personification

Answer 19

Giving human qualities to non-human things

Question 20

Oxymoron

Answer 20

A contridiction in terms

Question 21

Allusion

Answer 21

A reference to a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art outside the text

Question 22

Metaphor

Answer 22

A comparison of two unlike things stated in auch a way as to imply that one object is another, figuratively speaking

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

A comparison of two unlike things implied by using an adverb such as like or as