Finals-Terms

Question 1

A reference within a work of literature to something outside it.

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Allusion

Question 2

The protagonists’ opponent (whether a person, a force, or a situation).

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Antagonist

Question 3

A short, simple narrative song.

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Ballad

Question 4

Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Blank Verse

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Representations of persons in literature.

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Character

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A pair of rhymed lines.

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Couplet

Question 7

A story consisting of action and dialogue designed for stage performance.

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Drama

Question 8

A poem consisting of a speech by a character (who is not the author) addressing an audience at a critical moment in his life.

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Dramatic Monologue

Question 9

Originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now it is a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.

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Elegy

Question 10

A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero.

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Epic

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The recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables, as in “lively lads and lasses.”

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Alliteration

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The addressing of some nonpersonal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply (e.g.,”0death, where is thy sting?”).

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Apostrophe

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Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated or implied equivalence of two things (e.g., “I am the bread of life”).

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Metaphor

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The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person.

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Personification

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A stated comparison of two things using a linking word or phrase (e.g., like,as, as if): “my luve is like a red, red rose.”

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Simile

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A figure of thought that contrasts appearance and reality.

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Irony

Question 17

The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

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Meter

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A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion.

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Ode

Question 19

A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

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Quatrain

Question 20

The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary or unpleasant in life.

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Realism

Question 21

Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases.

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Rhyme

Question 22

A more or less regular recurrence of stressed syllables in written or spoken utterance.

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Rhythm

Question 23

A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. In literature romanticism stressed the importance of originality and therefore abhorred slavish imitation by one author of another and conformity to conventional social proprieties. It preferred the emotionally dynamic to the rationally controlled (denying the possibility of their coexistence).

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Romanticism

Question 24

Corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule.

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Satire

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A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns.

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Sonnet

Question 26

A narrative method de- signed to reproduce the mental process of a character, mingling conscious with half-conscious thoughts and sensations, past with present experi- ence, and rational and irrational associations, in an unbroken flow.

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Stream of Consciousness

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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

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Tone

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major pauses within lines

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Caesura

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is drama that ends happily

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Comedy

Question 30

a striking and, often, sustained figurative comparison.

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Conceit

Question 31

A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning. The implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events, and situations (as in historical allegory) or a set of ideas (as in conceptual allegory).

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Allegory

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Short, pithy sentence, a concise statement of a principle

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Aphorism

Question 33

is drama that ends unhappily

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Tragedy

Question 34

The chief or main character

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Protagonist

Question 35

Run on lines

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Enjambment

Question 36

are characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic (in use of dialogue and absence of transitions), ritualistic in effect (through the use of various devices and repetition), and simple in stanza form.

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Folk Ballad

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a metaphoric compound of two words, such as whalepath for sea.

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Kenning

Question 38

differs from the Petrarchan by the logical rather than physical basis of its comparison.

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Metaphysical Conceit

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.

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Theme

Question 40

A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story

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Frame story

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A narrative poem created in imitation of old folk poets writings

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Literary Ballad

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The practice of representing things by symbols

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Symbolism

Question 43

Any poem of solemn meditation

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Elegiac poetry

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Wandering minstrels

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Scop

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Traditionally a short, melodic; personally expressive poem; a poem that isn't long, narrative, dramatic, (in sense of being written to be acted out), or exposition (written merely to convey information).

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Lyrical Poetry

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Artificially selected and refined language once considered essential to poetic expression

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Diction

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A detailed account of a persons life and accomplishments written by another person

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Biography

Question 48

A metaphor that extends throughout a stanza or an entire poem

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Extended Metaphor

Question 49

A phrase or sentence repeated as intervals throughout a poem often at the end of a stanza

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Refrain

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A literary form typically set in nonexistent realms, and often featuring supernatural beings

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Fantasy

Question 51

An outcome in a literary word in which good is rewarded and evil is punished, especially in ways that fit the intensity of the crime

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Poetic justice

Question 52

A story originating in oral tradition

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Folktale

Question 53

language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.

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Figurative Language

Question 54

Linguistics. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

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Dialect

Question 55

to show or indicate beforehand;

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Foreshadowing

Question 56

the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language; the rules or patterns so studied

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Syntax