List #7

Question 1

non sequitur

Answer 1

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

Question 2

objective

Answer 2

of or relating to facts and reality as opposed to private and personal feelings and attitudes

Question 3

ode

Answer 3

a lyric poem, usually marked by serious respectful and exalted feelings toward the subject

Question 4

Old English

Answer 4

The Anglo-Saxon language spoken from 450-1150 A.D. in what is now Great Britain

Question 5

omniscient narrator

Answer 5

a narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and other elements of the story

Question 6

onomatopoeia

Answer 6

the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning

Question 7

oxymoron

Answer 7

a term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect

Question 8

parable

Answer 8

a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived

Question 9

paradox

Answer 9

a statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true

Question 10

parallel structure

Answer 10

the structure required for expressing two or more grammatical elements of equal rank

Question 11

parody

Answer 11

an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject

Question 12

paraphrase

Answer 12

a version of a text put into simpler, everyday words

Question 13

pastoral

Answer 13

a work of literature dealing with rural life

Question 14

pathetic fallacy

Answer 14

faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects

Question 15

pathos

Answer 15

the element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow

Question 16

pedantic

Answer 16

excessively petty and meticulous

Question 17

periodic sentence

Answer 17

a sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end

Question 18

persona

Answer 18

the role or facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader or other audience

Question 19

personification

Answer 19

a figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics

Question 20

plot

Answer 20

the interrelationship among the events in a story

Question 21

point of view

Answer 21

the relation in which a narrator or speaker stands to a subject of discourse