Journal Test #2

Question 1

enjambment

Answer 1

continuation of a sentence in poetry without a pause or any type of punctuation

Question 2

caesura

Answer 2

a pause in the middle or a line, an interruption

Question 3

apostrophe

Answer 3

when the speaker addresses an absent or imaginary person, a real/ imagined object or process, or an abstract quality

Question 4

slant rhyme

Answer 4

words that have similar, but not identical sound; may have similar consonants but different vowel sounds

Question 5

understatement

Answer 5

the presentation or framing of something as less important, urgent, awful, good, powerful, and so on than it actually is, often for satirical or comical effort (opposite of hyperbole)

Question 6

hyperbole

Answer 6

deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic/ ironic effect; overstatement to make a point

Question 7

dramatic irony

Answer 7

the contrast between what a character or speaker says/ thinks and what the audience or reader knows to be true

Question 8

situational irony

Answer 8

discrepancy between what seems fitting and what actually happens

Question 9

verbal irony

Answer 9

a statement in which the speaker’s words are incongruous with the speaker’s intent

Question 10

irony

Answer 10

an incongruity between expectation and reality

Question 11

shifts

Answer 11

a point in a poem that indicates a change, most often a change in the speaker’s perspective

Question 12

oxymoron

Answer 12

a paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words

Question 13

paradox

Answer 13

a statement that seems contradictory but actually reveals a surprising/ hidden truth

Question 14

antithesis

Answer 14

contradictory ideas that a juxtaposed, often using parallel grammatical construction

Question 15

juxtapositions

Answer 15

placing two things side by side for the sake of comparison or contrast or used to produce verbal irony

Question 16

persona

Answer 16

a voice/ viewpoint that an author adopts in order to deliver a story or poem

Question 17

speaker

Answer 17

the person in poem of drama who is expressing a point of view as either the author themselves of a persona created by the author

Question 18

octave

Answer 18

8 light stanza

Question 19

sestet

Answer 19

6 line stanza

Question 20

quatrain

Answer 20

4 line stanza

Question 21

tercet

Answer 21

3 line stanzacp

Question 22

couplet

Answer 22

2 line stanza

Question 23

stanza

Answer 23

a group of lines within a poem, paragraph in prose

Question 24

common symbols in literature

Answer 24

a setting, object, character, or event in a story or poem that carries a deeper literary meaning

Question 25

figurative language

Answer 25

creates comparisons by linking the sense and the concrete to the abstract ideas

Question 26

tone

Answer 26

rooted in narrator’s pov, attitude of a character toward a subject

Question 27

mood

Answer 27

rooted in the setting, the physical atmosphere that provokes a reader’s emotions

Question 28

allegory

Answer 28

a work in which everything is symbolic, seems to be about one thing but is actually about another

Question 29

modus operandi

Answer 29

a particular method or way of doing something that becomes a pattern

Question 30

ameliorate

Answer 30

to make better or more tolerable

Question 31

benevolence

Answer 31

disposition to do good, an act of kindness

Question 32

contenance

Answer 32

the look or expression of the face

Question 33

authentic

Answer 33

real; genuine

Question 34

incogruous

Answer 34

incompatible, unsuitable for the situation

Question 35

prevade

Answer 35

existing in or spreading through every part of somethingcon

Question 36

contronym

Answer 36

a word with two opposite or nearly opposite meanings

Question 37

cleave

Answer 37

to adhere to OR divide

Question 38

deride

Answer 38

to subject to bitter or contemptuous criticism and ridicule

Question 39

prose

Answer 39

writing that is not poetry or rhyming verse

Question 40

tantalize

Answer 40

to tease or torment by presenting something desirable white it is out of reach

Question 41

assuage

Answer 41

satisfy or gain

Question 42

stoic

Answer 42

indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive

Question 43

bereft

Answer 43

lacking something needed, wanted, or expected

Question 44

epiphany

Answer 44

an illuminating discovery or realization

Question 45

complexity

Answer 45

hard to seperate, analyze, or solve

Question 46

mercurial

Answer 46

characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes of mood

Question 47

quell

Answer 47

to put an end to something

Question 48

conjure

Answer 48

to call an image to mind; cause someone to feel or think something

Question 49

analysis

Answer 49

the seperation and identification of the parts of a whole to arrive at a conclusion

Question 50

waterloo

Answer 50

to suffer an ultimate, decisive defeat

Question 51

spinner of the years

Answer 51

someone who influeneces the current time or age

Question 52

sisyphus

Answer 52

ceaseless and pointless toil, a metaphor for modern life

Question 53

muses

Answer 53

someone’s source of inspiration, especially in artistic, creative endeavors

Question 54

magnum opus

Answer 54

the greatest work of an artist, writer or composer

Question 55

icarus/ fly too close to the sun

Answer 55

to fail or be destroyed because of lack of caution or excessive ambition

Question 56

cross the rubicon

Answer 56

to take an irreversible step, often involving some danger