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Question 1

Lampoon

Answer 1

a mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation

Question 2

Light Verse

Answer 2

a variety of poetry meant to entertain or amuse, but sometimes with a satirical thrust

Question 3

Litotes

Answer 3

a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity

Question 4

Loose Sentence

Answer 4

a sentence that follows the customary word order of English sentences

Question 5

Lyric Poetry

Answer 5

personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker’s thoughts and feelings about the subject

Question 6

Melodrama

Answer 6

a literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

a figure of speech that compares unlike objects

Question 8

Meter

Answer 8

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry

Question 9

Metonymy

Answer 9

a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated

Question 10

Mock Epic

Answer 10

a parody of traditional epic form

Question 11

Mood

Answer 11

The emotional tone in a work of literature

Question 12

Moral

Answer 12

a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature

Question 13

Motif

Answer 13

a phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature

Question 14

Narrative

Answer 14

A form of verse or prose that tells a story

Question 15

Non Sequitur

Answer 15

a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before

Question 16

Novella

Answer 16

a work of fiction of roughly 20,000 to 50,000 words-longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel