Literary Terms Part 2

Question 0

Hyperbole

Answer 0

A figure of speech with deliberate exaggeration

Question 1

Heroic couplet

Answer 1

Pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter

Question 2

Iambic pentameter

Answer 2

5 feet of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 3

Imagery

Answer 3

5 senses

Question 4

In medias res

Answer 4

In the middle of things

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

An inconsistency with what is expected

Question 6

Kenning

Answer 6

A compound word used as a metaphor

Question 7

Litote

Answer 7

A trope making a point by negating the opposite (she’s not unfriendly but neither is she kind)

Question 8

Medievalism

Answer 8

Knights, damsels, dragons, etc.

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another

Question 10

Meter

Answer 10

Regular rhythmic pattern

Question 11

Monologue

Answer 11

A narrative by one person

Question 12

Mood

Answer 12

Tone and atmosphere

Question 13

Motif

Answer 13

Recurring symbol or idea

Question 14

Narrative poem

Answer 14

Tells a story

Question 15

Octet

Answer 15

An 8 line stanza

Question 16

Ode

Answer 16

Talks about and elevates an idea

Question 17

Onomatopoeia

Answer 17

Signifies meaning by sounds

Question 18

Oxymoron

Answer 18

Two words combined to make a sensible word (bittersweet, love hate, walking dead)

Question 19

Parallelism

Answer 19

A comparison by two grammatically similar lines

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

Giving human traits to an inanimate object

Question 21

Plot

Answer 21

Series of events

Question 22

Point of view

Answer 22

Perspective from character or reader

Question 23

Prose

Answer 23

Not poetry

Question 24

Prosopopeia

Answer 24

Inanimate object speaking

Question 25

Protagonist

Answer 25

Main character

Question 26

Pun

Answer 26

Play on words

Question 27

Quatrain

Answer 27

Stanza with 4 lines

Question 28

Refrain

Answer 28

Recurring line or phrase

Question 29

Rhyme scheme

Answer 29

Pattern of rhyme in a poem

Question 30

Rising action

Answer 30

Between conflict and climax

Question 31

Satire (direct and indirect)

Answer 31

D: talking to reader I: talking to character

Question 32

Scansion

Answer 32

Shows pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables through symbols

Question 33

Sestet

Answer 33

6 line stanza

Question 34

Setting

Answer 34

Time and place

Question 35

Simile

Answer 35

Comparison using like or as

Question 36

Soliloquy

Answer 36

Private monologue revealing one's inner thoughts

Question 37

Sonnet

Answer 37

A lyric poem with 14 lines

Question 38

Stanza

Answer 38

Group of lines in a poem

Question 39

Style

Answer 39

The way the thing was written

Question 40

Symbol

Answer 40

Something that represents something else

Question 41

Synecdoche

Answer 41

A part of something is used to refer to the whole (all hands on deck)

Question 42

Theme

Answer 42

A recurring idea

Question 43

Tone

Answer 43

The attitude of the author

Question 44

Voice

Answer 44

Sound of the writing

Question 45

Paradox

Answer 45

A statement that seems contradictory but expresses a truth