Literary Terms 8

Question 1

Elegy

Answer 1

Dignified poem mourning death of an individual

Question 2

Anticlimax (bathos)

Answer 2

Sinking effect created when reader, full of lofty expectations, finds only something trivial, deflating, or even comical

Question 3

Picaresque

Answer 3

Narrative depicting life of a “picaro” or rogue whose knavery implicates him in adventures which take him from one social class to another

Question 4

Canto

Answer 4

Sub division of a long poem, corresponding to a chapter in a book

Question 5

Restoration Comedy/Comedy of Manners

Answer 5

Elaborate, witty comedies set in aristocratic Restoration world

Question 6

Mock Epic

Answer 6

Work in which trivial subject is made ridiculous by being treated with elaborate and dignified devices of the epic

Question 7

Pastoral

Answer 7

Literature which concerns country life

Question 8

Epigram

Answer 8

Short usually witty statement, graceful in style and ingenious in thought

Question 9

Periodical Essay

Answer 9

Thoughtful, often satiric, journalistic essay

Question 10

Antithesis

Answer 10

Pointed juxtaposition of opposite or contrary elements