Lit Terms 136-150

Question 1

Bildungsroman

Answer 1

coming of age story

Question 2

end rhyme

Answer 2

rhyme that occurs in the last syllable in a verse

Question 3

epistolary

Answer 3

taking the form of a letter

Question 4

internal rhyme

Answer 4

a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry

Question 5

narrative poem

Answer 5

a poem that tells a story

Question 6

Realism

Answer 6

an artistic movement of the second half of the nineteenth century which sought to portray life and people as they really were

Question 7

rhyme scheme

Answer 7

the pattern in which the rhyming sounds occur in stanza or poem

Question 8

slant rhyme

Answer 8

an approximate or near rhyme

Question 9

sonnet

Answer 9

poem of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter, which contains a rhyme scheme

Question 10

stereotype

Answer 10

a conventional patter, expression, character or idea. Applies to the unraveling of the plot

Question 11

surrealism

Answer 11

an artistic movement which emphasizes the imagination without conscious or rational control as in dreams

Question 12

syllogism

Answer 12

a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drown from them
A=B B=C A=C

Question 13

Trancendentalism

Answer 13

Cambridge Massachusetts that asserted the idea that knowledge and understanding were to be gained not only through the senses but also through intuition and contemplation of the internal spirit

Question 14

unity

Answer 14

the concept that a literary work shall have in it some organizing principle to which all its parts are related so that the work is a whole