Literature 101

Question 1

Define “cherished”

Answer 1

Beloved, valued

Question 2

Define demotic and hieroglyphic

Answer 2

Ancient Egyptian writing, using symbols and pictures to represent words

Question 3

Define uncanny:

Answer 3

Strange, odd

Question 4

Intrigue:

Answer 4

Curiosity and interest

Question 5

Define eminent:

Answer 5

Outstanding

Question 6

Define queried:

Answer 6

Asked

Question 7

Coffles:

Answer 7

Groups of animals or slaves chained together in a line

Question 8

Proximate:

Answer 8

Near in time

Question 9

Jostling:

Answer 9

Bumping and pushing, usually in a crowd

Question 10

Who is a character?

Answer 10

The people or animals who take part in a story’s action

Question 11

Characterization:

Answer 11

The way a writer reveals a character’s personality and qualities

Question 12

What is direct characterization?

Answer 12

The writer describes the character

Question 13

What is indirect characterization?

Answer 13

The writer reveals the character through speech and actions

Question 14

What is the theme?

Answer 14

The central message expressed in a story

Question 15

What is a plot?

Answer 15

The sequence of events in a short story

Question 16

What are the 5 parts of a plot?

Answer 16

Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, and the conclusion

Question 17

Explain exposition:

Answer 17

Introduces the setting

Question 18

Explain rising action:

Answer 18

Introduces the conflict

Question 19

Explain climax:

Answer 19

The turning point of the story

Question 20

Explain falling action:

Answer 20

When the conflict reduces

Question 21

Explain resolution:

Answer 21

The conclusion of the story

Question 22

Define tenement:

Answer 22

Old, run-down apartment

Question 23

Define impromptu:

Answer 23

Unplanned

Question 24

Define ajar:

Answer 24

Slightly open

Question 25

Define bodega:

Answer 25

Call grocery store serving a Latino neighborhood

Question 26

Define tentatively:

Answer 26

Hesitantly

Question 27

Define involuntary tremor:

Answer 27

Automatic trembling/shaking

Question 28

Define banister:

Answer 28

Railing along a staircase

Question 29

Define scalawags:

Answer 29

People who cause trouble

Question 30

Define canyon:

Answer 30

Narrow valley between high cliffs

Question 31

Define mesas:

Answer 31

Plateaus with steep sides

Question 32

Define timid:

Answer 32

Showing shyness

Question 33

Define initiation:

Answer 33

Process by which one becomes a member of a group

Question 34

Define neglected:

Answer 34

Failed to take care of

Question 35

Define Lance:

Answer 35

Long spear

Question 36

Define turquoise:

Answer 36

Greenish-blue gemstone

Question 37

Define elective:

Answer 37

Optional course

Question 38

Define ese:

Answer 38

Spanish for “man”

Question 39

Define conviction:

Answer 39

Belief

Question 40

Define scowl:

Answer 40

To make an unpleasant although attractive expression by frowning

Question 41

Define inflammatory rheumatism:

Answer 41

A disease in which the joints swell painfully and gradually break down

Question 42

Define solemn:

Answer 42

Serious

Question 43

Define freshet:

Answer 43

A great rise or overflowing stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow

Question 44

Define extricate:

Answer 44

Set free

Question 45

Define presumptuous:

Answer 45

Overconfident, cocky

Question 46

Define composure:

Answer 46

Calmness of the mind

Question 47

Define remote:

Answer 47

Far away from everything else

Question 48

Define rash:

Answer 48

Thoughtless

Question 49

What is a stanza?

Answer 49

The verses that are grouped in a poem

Question 50

What is figurative language?

Answer 50

Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally.

Question 51

What is a metaphor?

Answer 51

Describe one thing as if it were something else

Question 52

What is personification?

Answer 52

Gives human qualities to something that is not human

Question 53

What are similes?

Answer 53

Use LIKE or AS to compare two unlike things

Question 54

What is a symbol?

Answer 54

Anything that represents or symbolizes something else

Question 55

What do sound devices do?

Answer 55

Enhance a poem’s mood and meaning

Question 56

What is alliteration?

Answer 56

The repetition of of consonant sounds in the beginning of words (e.g beautiful boat)

Question 57

What is repetition?

Answer 57

The use of a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence more than once

Question 58

What is assonance?

Answer 58

The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables

Question 59

What is consonance?

Answer 59

The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables

Question 60

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 60

The use of words that imitate sounds (e.g BANG or BARK, CRASH)

Question 61

What is a rhyme?

Answer 61

The repetition of sounds at the end of words

Question 62

What is a meter?

Answer 62

The rhythmical pattern in a poem

Question 63

What is narrative poetry?

Answer 63

Tells a story in verse

Question 64

What is Haiku?

Answer 64

A three-line Japanese verse form

Question 65

What is a free verse?

Answer 65

A poem with no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern

Question 66

What is lyric poetry?

Answer 66

It expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker

Question 67

What is a ballad?

Answer 67

A song like poem that tells a story

Question 68

What is a concrete poem?

Answer 68

They’re shaped to look like their subjects. ( arrangement of lines to form an image)

Question 69

What is a limerick?

Answer 69

A humorous, rhyming, five line poem

Question 70

What is a rhyming couplet?

Answer 70

A pair of rhyming lines, usually the same length

Question 71

Define maestro:

Answer 71

Great musician

Question 72

Define “prickly pear”

Answer 72

Species of cactus with sharp spines and an edible fruit

Question 73

Define luminous:

Answer 73

Giving off light

Question 74

Define feed:

Answer 74

Tiny particles minnows feed on

Question 75

Define swerve:

Answer 75

Curving motion