Lit terms 76-90

Question 1

76. Stanza
Dance to the music
under the stars at night.
Dance to the music
of all time lullabies.

Answer 1

A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit

Question 2

77. Stream of consciousness
    I saw the blue ocean against the dark green of the mountains and all I could feel a feeling of contentment exude through me.

Answer 2

A writing style that tries to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations running through a character’s mind

Question 3

78. Syllogism

Hats are silly. People who wear hats are silly. Therefore you are silly

Answer 3

a formal argument in logic that is formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true

Question 4

79. Symbolism

After stabbing the main character with a knife. The knife represented betrayal.

Answer 4

A literary movement that began in France during the late nineteenth century and advocated the use of highly personal symbols to suggest ideas, emotions, and moods.

Question 5

80. Synecdoche

Washington (America) is deciding on a course of action.

Answer 5

A figure of speech in which a part represents a whole

Question 6

81. Syntax

(And then it was silent) is a fragment used for emphasis.

Answer 6

the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences

Question 7

82. the absurd

Alice searched for the reason why things were happening to her but couldn’t find any.

Answer 7

refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any

Question 8

83. Tragedy

Othello is a tragedy that ends with everyone dead.

Answer 8

A play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.

Question 9

84. Transcendentalism

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Emerson

Answer 9

the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical:

Question 10

85. utopia

In the utopia there was no crime and everyone was happy.

Answer 10

an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect.

Question 11

86. valediction

She said a valediction to him before moving.

Answer 11

an act of bidding farewell or taking leave.

Question 12

87. verbal irony

Sarcastically “You’re so good at that!”

Answer 12

occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something quite different-often the opposite of what he or she has said

Question 13

88. Victorianism

Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is an example of a Victorian novel.

Answer 13

The drive for social advancement, Typically, any such attempt to improve one’s social standing must be accompanied by “proper” behavior

Question 14

89. Villanelle

It has more lines than a sonnet but carries a rhyme scheme and is divided.

Answer 14

A nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets (3 line stanzas), each with the rhyme scheme ABA, and a final quatrain with the rhyme scheme ABBA

Question 15

90. Zeugma

While he was out hunting, he caught a deer and a cold.

Answer 15

the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one