lit terms quiz 2

Question 1

anapest

Answer 1

a version of the foot in poetry in which the first two syllables of a line are unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable.

Question 2

anaphora

Answer 2

The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs.

Question 3

antithesis

Answer 3

used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect

Question 4

bildungsroman

Answer 4

a “Coming Of Age Story.”

Question 5

blank verse

Answer 5

Verse written in iambic pentameter without rhyme.

Question 6

canto

Answer 6

one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem

Question 7

chiasmus

Answer 7

the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point. For example John F. Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

Question 8

conceit

Answer 8

an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem

Question 9

couplet

Answer 9

a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends

Question 10

cumulative sentence

Answer 10

a long sentence with the main point at the beginning

Question 11

dactyl

Answer 11

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones

Question 12

denotation

Answer 12

the exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may imply

Question 13

didactic

Answer 13

literature or other types of art that are instructional or informative

Question 14

elegy

Answer 14

reflective poem that laments the loss of something or someone

Question 15

elision

Answer 15

the omission of part of a word (typically a letter)

Question 16

euphony

Answer 16

pleasing, harmonious sounds (pleasurable impressions due to the images involved or described or to any inherent musicality in the sounds

Question 17

free verse

Answer 17

does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern

Question 18

half rhyme

Answer 18

a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds

Question 19

hyperbole

Answer 19

a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to achieve an effect, whether serious, comic, or ironic

Question 20

internal rhyme

Answer 20

rhyme that occurs within a line of verse

Question 21

Italian sonnet

Answer 21

Usually written in iambic pentameter, it consists first of an octave, or eight lines, which asks a question or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a. The sestet, or last six lines, offers an answer, or a resolution to the proposed problem, and follows the rhyme scheme c-d-e-c-d-e.

Question 22

lampoon

Answer 22

an imitative work created to imitate, or comment on and trivialize an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation

Question 23

loose sentence

Answer 23

a long sentence with the main point at the beginning

Question 24

modern period

Answer 24

emerged as a result of changes in the cultural, political, and artistic sensibilities that occurred in the years before, during, and after ww1

Question 25

palindrome

Answer 25

a number, a word, a sentence, a symbol or even signs that can be read forward as well as backward or in reserve order with the same effects and meanings.

Question 26

pastoral

Answer 26

mostly about shepherds out shepherding; depicted the everyday, rustic life of regular folks; glorifying the simple life

Question 27

periodic sentence

Answer 27

a long sentence with the main point at the end

Question 28

quatrain

Answer 28

a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines

Question 29

rhetorical divice

Answer 29

a use of language that is intended to have an effect on its audience; a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective, using sentences designed to encourage or provoke a rational argument from an emotional display of a given perspective or action

Question 30

sestina

Answer 30

a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.

Question 31

Shakespearean (English) sonnet

Answer 31

a poem with three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg; the volta usually comes in the couplet, and usually summarizes the theme of the poem or introduces a fresh new look at the theme

Question 32

spondee

Answer 32

A foot consisting of two syllables of approximately equal stress.

Question 33

static characters

Answer 33

remain the same throughout.

Question 34

stream of consciousness

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the narrative method where novelists describe
the unspoken thoughts and feelings of their characters without resorting to objective
description or conventional dialogue

Question 35

syntax

Answer 35

the arrangement- the ordering, grouping, and placement- of words within a sentence

Question 36

transcendentalism

Answer 36

A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.

Question 37

trochee

Answer 37

a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

Question 38

understatement

Answer 38

used to understate the obvious

Question 39

connotaiton

Answer 39

an association that comes along with a particular word

Question 40

dynamic characters

Answer 40

change over the course of the story