Literary terms Flashcards
_______ meter is composed of feet that are unaccented, unaccented, accented (u u /).
Ex: “I must finish my journey alone.”
Anapestic Meter
_______is a brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
_______is a wise saying, usually short and written.
Ex: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
A. Anecdote
B. Apostrophe
C. Aphorism
D. Assoance
Aphorism
________is a turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons who is present or absent.
Apostrophe
“It’s hot and monotnous” and “Try to light the fire” are both examples of what?
A. Consonance
B. Anecdote
C. Assonance
D. Hubris
Assonance
_______ are used to create a dramatic pause.
Caesura
“He struck a streak of bad luck.” is an example of _______.
Consonance
When a meter is unstressed, stressed is _____________ meter.
A. Spondee
B. Dactylic
C. Anapestic
D. Iambic
iambic
When a meter is stressed, unstressed (/ u) is ___________meter.
A. Trochaic
B. Dactylic
C. Anapestic
D. Iambic
trochaic
When a meter is unstressed, unstressed, stressed (u u /) is ______ meter.
A. Spondee
B. Dactylic
C. Anapestic
D. Iambic
anapestic
When a meter is stressed, unstressed, unstressed ( / u u) is ______ meter.
A. Spondee
B. Dactylic
C. Anapestic
D. Iambic
dactylic
one foot
monometer
two feet
dimeter
three feet
trimeter
four feet
tetrameter
five feet
pentameter
six feet
hexameter
seven feet
septameter
eight feet
octameter
A heroic couplet is mostly written in ____________ ___________.
A. Anapestic meter
B. Iambic pentameter
iambic pentameter
____________ is the flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; excessive pride
Hubris
__________rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
internal rhyme
_____________ irony is when the reader sees a character’s errors, but the character does not.
A. Situational
B. Dramatic
Dramatic irony
_______ irony is when the purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result.
A. Situational
B. Dramatic
situational
__________in literature refers to the practice of misusing words by substituting words with similar sounding words that have different, often unconnected meanings, and thus creating a situation of confusion, misunderstanding and amusement.
A. Refrain
B Epithet
C. Malapropism
D. Elegy
Malapropism
Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons.” Instead, what the character means to say is “”Our watch, sir, have indeed apprehended two suspicious persons.
This is an example of what?
Malapropism
_____________ is a word, group of words, line, or group of lines repeated at specific moments in the poem.
Refrain
_______is a short poem, often written by an anonymous author, comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited
ballad
_________-: A sub-division of an epic or narrative poem comparable to a chapter in a novel.
Canto
_________ is a four line stanza
Quatrain
____________is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
A. Epithet
B. Elegy
C. Euphemism
D. Cadence
elegy
____________is a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
A. Limerick
B. Elegy
C. Epic
D. Lyric
Epic
Haiku has __ syllables.
17
Haiku is written in 1st line: ____ syllables, 2nd line _____ syllables, and 3rd line ____ syllables.
5 - 7 - 5
____________ poem is often a funny poem with a strong beat; very light hearted poems and can sometimes be utter nonsense.
Limerick
When a poem as 5 anapestic lines (unstressed, unstressed,stressed) and a rhyme scheme of aabba, it is most likely a _______.
Limerick
__________is a short poem about personal feelings and emotions
Lyric
___________is a sonnet that opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a sestet (the last six lines of a sonnet.) that states the solution.
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet
___________a sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet
Shakespearen
__________ is a 3 line stanza.
Tercet
__________ is a 4 line stanza.
Quatrain
_________ is a 5 line stanza.
Quintet
________ is a 6 line stanza.
Sestet
__________is a 7 line stanza.
Septet
_________is an 8 line stanza.
Octave
_________a narrative form, such as an epic, legend, myth, song, poem, or fable, that has been retold within a culture for generations.
A. Novella
B. Tragedy
C. Limerick
D. Folktale
Folktale
___________ is a short narrative, usually between 50-100 pages long.
Novella
____________ is literature, often drama, ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
A. Elegy
B. Folktale
C. Tragedy
D. Cadence
Tragedy
_____________ is the outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Denouement
_______\ is a rhetorical term for repetition of a word or phrase at beginning of several clauses.
Example: In MLK’s “I have a dream..” speech, he often repeated “I have a dream” at the beginning of many of his sentences.
A. Epistrophe
B. Consonance
C. Assonance
D. Anaphora
Anaphora
_________ is a device in which writer attributes human characteristics to animate being or a inanimate object.
Anthropomorphism
_____is the natural rhythmic rise and fall of language as it is normally spoken.
A. Epithet
B. Anaphora
C. Cadence
D. Elegy
Cadence
_____metaphor/figure of speech that compares 2 very different things.
A. Cadence
B. Conceit
C. Refrain
D. Epithet
Conceit
_____a descriptive phrase or word used to characterize a person or thing such as “father of psychology.”
A. Epithet
B. Elegy
C. Epitaph
D. Cadence
Epithet
______A word or phrase that substitutes an offensive one.
For example: lost their lives, or misspoke
A. Epithet
B. Elegy
C. Euphemism
D. Cadence
Euphemism
_____A literary device in which a story is enclosed within a story.
Frame story
_____relationship between texts especially work of literature.
Intertexuality
______a lit theory term in which literature is viewed as transmitting an author’s message.
Monologic
_______From the Freudian theory that posits people experience a complex set of emotions based on sexual attraction to their parent of opposite sex.
Oedipus complex
______is the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals–usually used to depict emotion.
Ex: “The weeping clouds,”
Pathetic fallacy
When two words end in similar sounds, but don’t quite rhyme e.g. “queen” and “afternoon” this is an example of what type of rhyme?
Slant rhyme
______A long speech made in a play while no other characters are speaking.
Sililoquoy
_____meter is when a meter is stressed, stressed (/ /).
A. Anapest
B. Spondee
C. Dactyl
D. Iambic
Spondee
A _________________ a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.
Ex: The phrase “gray beard” refers to an old man.
A. Anecdote
B. Synecdoche
C. Cacophony
D. Epithet
Synecdoche
_____The juxtaposition of 1 sensory image with another that appeals to an unrelated sense.
Ex: “Back to the region where the sun is silent.”
A. Synesthesia
B. Paradox
C. Pathetic fallacy
D. Euphemism
Synesthesia
_______is the language spoken by people in a particular region.
Vernacular
A ____________can be defined as a word that when pronounced seems similar to another word but has a different spelling and meaning such as bear and bare
Homophone
A ______________ is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion or statement contrary to accepted traditional ideas.
Paradox
“Your enemy’s friend is your enemy.” and “I am nobody.” are both examples of what?
Paradox
A type of tercet that has a rhyme scheme: aaa
Triplet
Is “The sparrow talked to us” personification or a pathetic fallacy?
Personification because the sparrow is giving the human capability of talking.
___________points to a situation where there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds.
Ex: “I detest war because cause of war is always trivial.”
A. Cacophony
B. Homophone
Cacophony
______ is the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences.
A. Epistrophe
B. Consonance
C. Assonance
D. Anaphora
Epistrophe
“Ere” is an archaic term that means …. before\after?
Before
What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
Ex: “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”
Alliteration
______ is a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened.
Ex: “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”
Allusion
____ is a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.
Example:
“And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”
Epitaph
Is the purpose of a parable to make a point or to tell a moral lesson?
TELL A MORAL LESSON YALL
