Literary Terms pt. 3

Question 1

Reader-oriented approach

Answer 1

The literary analysis focuses on the reader’s perception of the text.

Question 2

Rhetorical question

Answer 2

A question that does not need an answer since it is obvious.

Question 3

Sarcasm

Answer 3

Intensified irony. Contains little wit, the emphasis is not on the mockery, but on the bitterness.

Question 4

Satire

Answer 4

The use of humor, irony and exaggeration to expose and criticize other people’s stupidity or vices.

Question 5

Schemes

Answer 5

Unlike tropes these are used to change the word order.

Question 6

Set phrase

Answer 6

A commonly used phrase which doesn’t make sense semantically (raining cats and dogs).

Question 7

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 7

Modified Petrarchan sonnet. 14 lines, 3x4 lines and a final couples.

Question 8

Simile

Answer 8

One thing is compared to another (“like”).

Question 9

Slapstick

Answer 9

A type of comedy that features exaggerated physical activity. It may include intentional violence or mishap.

Question 10

Spenserian sonnet

Answer 10

A modified version of the Shakespearean sonnet. It is known for the interlocking rhyme.

Question 11

Spondee

Answer 11

Metric foot. Stressed-stressed.

Question 12

Syllabic verse

Answer 12

Poetic form with fixed number of syllables per line, but where the stresses are isn’t important.

Question 13

Synedoche

Answer 13

A part is made to represent the whole and vice verse. “Hungry mouths to feed” or “check out my new wheels”.

Question 14

Symploce

Answer 14

A repetition of the whole sentence.

Question 15

Text-oriented approach

Answer 15

An approach where solely the text is analyzed - the use of sentences, phrases and their structure.

Question 16

Three layers of the metaphor

Answer 16

A concept by I. A. Richards. The metaphor consists of vehicle, tenor and ground. Ground is the connection between tenor and vehicle (what they have in common). Tenor is the word, vehicle is the language used to describe it.

Question 17

Trochee

Answer 17

Metric foot. Stressed-unstressed.

Question 18

Tropes

Answer 18

Twist the meaning of words rather than change their structure.

Question 19

Western

Answer 19

A film or novel about cowboys, set in the late 19th/early 20th century.

Question 20

Zeugma

Answer 20

A word applies to two others. “She opened the door and her heart.”