lit terms

Question 1

what is the personification

Answer 1

figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if had human feelings thoughts or attitudes

Question 2

what are symbols

Answer 2

person place thing or event that has meaning and it’s self and stands for something beyond itself as well

Question 3

what is a simile

Answer 3

comparison between two unlike things using like or as

Question 4

what is verbal irony

Answer 4

irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another or uses words to convey a meaning that’s the opposite of literal meaning

Question 5

what is situational irony

Answer 5

irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended so that the outcome is contrary to what was intended

Question 6

what is dramatic irony

Answer 6

occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not. Because of this understanding, the words of the characters take on a different meaning. This can create intense suspense or humor

Question 7

what is allusion

Answer 7

reference to a statement person place or event from literature art history religion mythology politics sports or science

Question 8

what is dialect

Answer 8

The definition of a dialect is a variety of a language which has different pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary than the standard language of the culture.
An example of dialect is Cantonese to the Chinese language.

Question 9

what are end rhymes

Answer 9

rhymes at the end of sentences

Question 10

what is elegy

Answer 10

morning usually about someone who has died

Question 11

what is a meter

Answer 11

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

Question 12

what is a rhythm

Answer 12

movement or procedure with uniform or pattern recurrence of a beat or accent

Question 13

what is a free verse

Answer 13

poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme

Question 14

what is a refrain

Answer 14

to abstain from an impulse to say or do something

Question 15

what is irony

Answer 15

contrast between expectations and reality

Question 16

what are near or approximate rhymes

Answer 16

terms used in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound corresponding but aren’t perfect rhymes

Question 17

what are exact rhymes

Answer 17

involve the same sound within a line

Question 18

what is a couplet

Answer 18

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Question 19

what is an internal rhyme

Answer 19

A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse

Question 20

what is an alliteration

Answer 20

A repetition of constant sounds in words that are close together

Question 21

what is an assonance

Answer 21

A repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together

Question 22

what is an onomatopoeia

Answer 22

A formation of a word as cock ou meow honk or boom by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent

Question 23

what is a epic poem or a sonnet

Answer 23

it is written in heighten language and tells stories of the deeds of the heroic character who embodies the values of the society

Question 24

what is a narrative poem or a ballad

Answer 24

A simple song sentimental or romantic character having two or more stanzas sung to the same melody

Question 25

what is a lyric poem

Answer 25

: Which expresses personal emotions or feelings

Question 26

what is an ode

Answer 26

A lyric poem typically of elaborate or a regular medical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion

Question 27

what is a metaphor

Answer 27

imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing