Key Words English

Question 1

simile

Answer 1

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes something by saying it’s something else. It is not meant to be taken literally.Example:”Life is a highway. Her eyes were diamonds. He is a shining star. The snow is a white blanket.”

Question 3

caesura

Answer 3

A caesura, also written cæsura and cesura, is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins.

Question 4

enjambment

Answer 4

In poetry, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning ‘runs over’ or ‘steps over’ from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped.

Question 5

volta

Answer 5

Italian word for “turn.” In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument

Question 6

extended metaphor

Answer 6

An extended metaphor is a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

Question 7

personification

Answer 7

Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as a type of anthropomorphic metaphor.Example:”The sun smiled down on us.”

Question 8

alliteration

Answer 8

Alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of initial consonant sounds of nearby words in a phrase, often used as a literary device. A familiar example is “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”.

Question 9

rhyme scheme

Answer 9

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme

Question 10

rhythm

Answer 10

Rhythm can be described as the beat and pace of a poem.

Question 11

repetition

Answer 11

the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

Question 12

onomatopoeia

Answer 12

Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as oink, meow, roar, and chirp.

Question 13

narrative voice

Answer 13

Narrative voice is the perspective the story is told from. The writer chooses a narrative voice carefully, as it can have an important effect on the story and the reader’s response.

Question 14

Propaganda

Answer 14

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular person

Question 15

jingoism

Answer 15

Jingoism is nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country’s advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests.If you refuse to eat, read, wear, or discuss anything that wasn’t made in your own country, people might accuse you of jingoism.

Question 16

futility

Answer 16

pointlessness or uselessness.
“the horror and futility of war”

Question 17

terror

Answer 17

extreme fear.

Question 18

stanza

Answer 18

a group of lines of poetry forming a unit.

Question 19

verb

Answer 19

A verb is a word that indicates a physical action (e.g., ‘drive’), a mental action (e.g., ‘think’) or a state of being (e.g., ‘exist’). Every sentence contains a verb. Verbs are almost always used along with a noun or pronoun to describe what the noun or pronoun is doing.Examples:”run,dance,slide,jump,think,do,go,stand.”

Question 20

adjective

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An adjective is a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives can be used to describe the qualities of someone or something independently or in comparison to something else. Examples:silly, yellow, fun, fast.

Question 21

patriotism

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Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to one’s country.

Question 22

conflict

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Conflict is serious disagreement and argument. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement and have not yet reached agreement.

Question 23

hyperbole

Answer 23

Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.Examples such as “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse,” “I’ve seen this movie a hundred times,” or “It cost an arm and a leg.”

Question 24

trenches

Answer 24

A trench is a long narrow channel in the ground used by soldiers in order to protect themselves from the enemy.