Lesson 8

Question 1

In Elizabethan drama, a mimed scene depicting an episode occurring outside the time sequence of the play

Answer 1

Dumb Show

Question 2

A play on words, usually for comic effect, but sometimes for a serious purpose

Answer 2

Pun

Question 3

In drama, a monologue in which a character appears to be thinking out loud, there by communicating to the audience his inner thoughts and feelings

Answer 3

Soliloquy

Question 4

A form of literature that the depicts the downfall of the leading character whose life, it’s disastrous end not withstanding, represents something significant

Answer 4

Tragedy

Question 5

In drama, a comment by character directed to the audience, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage

Answer 5

Aside

Question 6

A branch of philosophy that explores the theory of the beautiful and the nature of art

Answer 6

Aesthetics

Question 7

The capacity to enter into the experience of another

Answer 7

Empathy

Question 8

A 14 line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter

Answer 8

Sonnet

Question 9

A significant idea a literary work; a motif

Answer 9

Theme

Question 10

A literary form idealizing rural settings

Answer 10

Pastoral

Question 11

A traditional assumption or practice in literature or drama

Answer 11

Convention

Question 12

A verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; standard form of English drama

Answer 12

Blank verse

Question 13

Hey humor as seen in tragic drama or fiction that has the effect of temporarily altering the mood of the play and thereby relieving the tension

Answer 13

Comic relief

Question 14

A form of critical analysis that involves the close reading of literary text

Answer 14

Explication

Question 15

Narrative convention a story begins in the middle of things rather than chronologically

Answer 15

In media res

Question 16

The part of the play or fiction that sets up the main action, introduces the characters, explains the background, and anticipates the conflict

Answer 16

Exposition

Question 17

An element that appears in a number of literary works

Answer 17

Motif

Question 18

A term for an exaggerated description of an individual

Answer 18

Caricature

Question 19

To edit out material deemed offensive

Answer 19

Bowderlize

Question 20

A passage that is repeated at various points in a poem or song

Answer 20

Refrain

Question 21

Doctrine that a literary work should end with good rewarded evil punished

Answer 21

Poetic justice

Question 22

A pleasing, agreeable sound, traditionally associated with lyric poetry

Answer 22

Euphony

Question 23

The traditional term for the source of poetic inspiration

Answer 23

Muse

Question 24

Figure of speech in which the part stands for the whole or the whole for the part

Answer 24

Synecdoche