Lit Vocab

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

a short story that is significant to the situation or conversation

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

a rhetorical device through which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person

Question 3

Diction

Answer 3

a writer’s choice of words in a literary text

Question 4

Iambic pentameter

Answer 4

a type of metric line that has ten syllables, with one stressed and one unstressed (lamb)

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

when a moment of dialogue or plot contradicts the audience’s expectations of what it is supposed to mean or what is expected to occur

Question 6

Juxtaposition

Answer 6

placing two or more ideas, images, or people side by side for contrast

Question 7

Pastoral

Answer 7

writing that idealizes shepherds and a perceived innocence and idleness about their lives

Question 8

Petrachan sonnet

Answer 8

a sonnet that is divided into an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines) and avoids the final rhyming couplet found in a Shakespearean sonnet

Question 9

Phenomenology

Answer 9

a philosophy that interrogates the meaning of the lived experience of human beings, especially the study of consciousness from a first-person perspective

Question 10

Praxis

Answer 10

action or practice, as opposed to theory

Question 11

Reverie

Answer 11

the dreamy state of being lost in thought

Question 12

Semiotics

Answer 12

the study of linguistic signs and symbols and their interpretation in writing and other modes of communication

Question 13

Solarpunk

Answer 13

movement that arose in the 2010s with an aim at solving ecological and social injustices brought on by climate change in a hopeful way

Question 14

Stream-of-consciousness

Answer 14

a flowing, typically unpunctuated representation of a characters thought in the immediate moment; often featured as an internal monologue