Ker Vocabulary/Technology

Question 1

Patriotic

Answer 1

Having or expressing devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country.

Question 2

Jingoism

Answer 2

Extreme patriotism, specially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.

Question 3

Propaganda

Answer 3

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Question 4

Conscription

Answer 4

Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically, into the armed forces.

Question 5

Nationalist

Answer 5

A person who feels very strongly about their own country over others.

Question 6

Shell shock

Answer 6

This term was used to describe the post-traumatic stress faced by many of the soldiers when they returned from the war.

Question 7

Simile

Answer 7

A comparison using like or as.

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

A direct comparison of two ideas or objects.

Question 9

Enjambment

Answer 9

No punctuation at the end of a line.

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Visually descriptive or figurative language.

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

Giving human feelings or actions to an inanimate object.

Question 12

Caesura

Answer 12

A pause of break within the line.

Question 13

Stanza

Answer 13

A ser of lines in a poem.

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Question 15

Alliteration

Answer 15

The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example: pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism.

Question 16

Allusion

Answer 16

Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize.

Question 17

Anaphora

Answer 17

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.

Question 18

Apostrophe

Answer 18

Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. Example: Wordsworth–“Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee”.

Question 19

Assonance

Answer 19

The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea.

Question 20

Ballad

Answer 20

A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a. Ballads may use refrains. Examples: “Jackaroe,” “The Long Black Veil”.

Question 21

Blank verse

Answer 21

unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example: Shakespeare’s plays

Question 22

Caesura

Answer 22

A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry

Question 23

Consonance

Answer 23

the counterpart of assonance; the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. Example: shadow meadow; pressed, passed; sipped, supped. Owen uses this “impure rhyme” to convey the anguish of war and death.

Question 24

Couplet

Answer 24

two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.

Question 25

Diction

Answer 25

Diction is usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses.

Question 26

Enjambment

Answer 26

A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.

Question 27

Hyperbole

Answer 27

Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect

Question 28

Iambic pentameter

Answer 28

an unstressed stressed foot.

Question 29

Image

Answer 29

Images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sight (visual), sounds (auditory), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory), and sensations of touch (tactile). Imagery refers to images throughout a work or throughout the works of a writer or group of writers.

Question 30

Metaphor

Answer 30

A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. Does not use “like” or “as” for the comparison (see simile).

Question 31

Meter

Answer 31

The number of feet within a line of traditional verse. Example: iambic pentameter.

Question 32

Onomatopeia

Answer 32

A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described. Example: buzz, slurp.

Question 33

Personification

Answer 33

Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions.

Question 34

Rhyme

Answer 34

The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.

Question 35

Simile

Answer 35

A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses “like” or “as” to state the terms of the comparison.

Question 36

Sonnet

Answer 36

A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.

Question 37

Stanza

Answer 37

A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.

Question 38

Volta

Answer 38

The “turning” point of a Petrarchan sonnet, usually occurring between the octave and the sestet.