Literary Terms Eight

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

A figure of speech in which emphasis is achieved by deliberate exaggeration

Question 2

Connotation

Answer 2

What a word or phrase suggests emotionally or by association as distinct from what it literally means

Question 3

Denotation

Answer 3

Literal definition airy definition of the word

Question 4

Metaphysical poetry

Answer 4

Hey term applied to the poetry of John done Andrew marble and 17 century poet who wrote and similarly difficult and abstract styles

Question 5

Euphemism

Answer 5

The substitution of a mild indirect or fake expression for one thought to be offensive harsh or blunt

Question 6

Euphuism

Answer 6

The affected ornate style of writing fashionably in England at the end of the 16th century

Question 7

Pentameter

Answer 7

A line of five metrical feet

Question 8

Iamb

Answer 8

8 foot or verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Question 9

Meter

Answer 9

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable’s in a recognizable over them

Question 10

Foot

Answer 10

The basic metrical unit usually one accented syllable in one or two unaccented syllables