List 12 & 56-60

Question 1

Foreshadow

Answer 1

hints or clues that suggest future events in a story for building suspense.
ex: In the prologue of Romeo and Juliet, it gives hints to the inevitable suicide of the two lovers but doesn’t say how.

Question 2

Free Verse

Answer 2

poetry that does not follow regular patterns or rhyme and meter. Flow more naturally to achieve a rhythm like everyday speech.
ex: After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman

Question 3

Generic Conventions

Answer 3

Traditions of each genre that help to define each genre.

ex: Almost all Westerns use the Iconography of cowboy hats, six shooters, horses and spurs to place them in their genre.

Question 4

Genre

Answer 4

The major category into which a literary work fits. Genre is a broad context and inside the main divisions of literature there’s subdivisions between the others.
ex: Basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry and drama.

Question 5

Homily

Answer 5

The term literally mean sermon, but more informally it can include any serious talk, speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.
ex:A Christian pastor might read an expert form the Bible and offer a perspective on how that passage might be applied.

Question 6

venerable

Answer 6

adj

worthy of respect because of age diginity, or characte

Question 7

stigma

Answer 7

n

a mark of disgrace

Question 8

tremulous

Answer 8

adj

marked by trembling, quivering or shaking

Question 9

descrepit

Answer 9

weakened, worn out, or broken down by old age or hard use

Question 10

exhilaration

Answer 10

n

a lively delight