Fourth Set of 40

Question 1

Rhetorical Techniques

Answer 1

Techniques that authors use to convey to the listener a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective

Question 2

Rhyme

Answer 2

The correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words

Question 3

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 3

The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem

Question 4

Rhyme royal

Answer 4

A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets

Question 5

Rising Action

Answer 5

A related series of incidents that build toward the point of greatest interest

Question 6

Romance

Answer 6

A novel or other narrative depicting heroic deeds, romantic exploits, etc., usually in a historical or imaginary setting

Question 7

Round Character

Answer 7

Characters who are 3-dimensional and who are meant to be most like real people. They have depth and are sometimes unpredictable

Question 8

Sarcasm

Answer 8

The use of irony to mock or convey contempt

Question 9

Satire

Answer 9

A genre of literature in which follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule. Meant to shame individuals, corporations, or governments into improvement

Question 10

Sestina

Answer 10

A fixed form of six, six-lined stanzas and a three line envoy. It is unrhymed, but has a fixed pattern of hand words in a different sequence in each stanza. The envoy uses three of the words at the ends of its three lines, and the other three somewhere within the lines

Question 11

Setting

Answer 11

The historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place

Question 12

Sibilance

Answer 12

Hissing sounds represented by s, z, and sh

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

The comparison of two things or more things using conjunctions (“like” or “as”) to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 14

Situational irony

Answer 14

A predicament or bit of luck, which is the opposite of what one would expect, give the circumstances

Question 15

Soliloquy

Answer 15

A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud

Question 16

Sonnet

Answer 16

A poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure

Question 17

Spondee

Answer 17

A metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables

Question 18

Stanza

Answer 18

A grouped set of lines within a poem

Question 19

Stereotype

Answer 19

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image of a particular type of person or thing

Question 20

Stream of Consciousness

Answer 20

A literary style in which a character’s thought are depicted in a continuous flow that is uninterrupted by objective description or punctuation

Question 21

Structure

Answer 21

The framework of a work of literature

Question 22

Style

Answer 22

The way an author writes. The technique which an individual author uses in his writing’s. It varies according to syntax, diction, and tone

Question 23

Syllogism

Answer 23

A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them

Question 24

Symbol

Answer 24

An object that represents or suggests an idea or event

Question 25

Synecdoche

Answer 25

A literary device in which a part of something refers to the whole of something, or vice versa

Question 26

Synesthesia

Answer 26

A sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality

Question 27

Syntax

Answer 27

The arrangement of words and phrases

Question 28

Terza rima

Answer 28

A three-lined stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc

Question 29

Tetrameter

Answer 29

A line of four metrical feet

Question 30

Theme

Answer 30

The central topic that a text treats. The idea or point that is central to a story and often cannot be wholly described in a single word or phrase.

Question 31

Thesis

Answer 31

A statement in a work that a writer intends to support and prove

Question 32

Tone

Answer 32

An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

Question 33

Tragedy

Answer 33

A kind of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering in a dignified manner

Question 34

Trochee

Answer 34

A falling duple foot

Question 35

Turn

Answer 35

The point at which a very significant change occurs; a decisive moment

Question 36

Understatement

Answer 36

The practice of drawing attention to a fact that is already obvious and noticeable. Understating a fact is usually done by way of sarcasm, irony, wryness or any other form of dry humor

Question 37

Versification

Answer 37

All the elements of poetic composition

Question 38

Villanelle

Answer 38

A fixed form of poetry with nineteen lines of any length or meter and two rhymes only, aba, in a set pattern. Line 1 is repeated as lines 6, 12, and 18. Line 3 is repeated as lines 9, 15, and 19

Question 39

Verbal Irony

Answer 39

Occurs when speakers say the opposite of what they mean. Similar to sarcasm

Question 40

Verisimilitude

Answer 40

The appearance of being true or factual