mid term

Question 1

metaphor

Answer 1

Metaphors are one of the most extensively used literary devices. A metaphor refers to a meaning or identity ascribed to one subject by way of another. In a metaphor, one subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits

Question 2

personification

Answer 2

Personification is one of the most commonly used and recognized literary devices. It refers to the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.

Question 3

anthropomorphism

Answer 3

Anthropomorphism can be understood to be the act of lending a human quality, emotion or ambition to a non-human object or being. This act of lending a human element to a non-human subject is often employed in order to endear the latter to the readers or audience and increase the level of relativity between the two while also lending character to the subject.

Question 4

imagery

Answer 4

In literature, one of the strongest devices is imagery wherein the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader. Imagery helps the reader to visualize and therein more realistically experience the author’s writings.

Question 5

alliteration

Answer 5

Alliteration is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Whether it is the consonant sound or a specific vowel group, the alliteration involves creating a repetition of similar sounds in the sentence

Question 6

onomatapoeia

Answer 6

The term ‘onomatopoeia’ refers to words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict. In other words, it refers to sound words whose pronunciation to the actual sound/noise they represent.

Question 7

diurnal

Answer 7

daily cycle

Question 8

appurtenaces

Answer 8

item you use as accessories daily

Question 9

Emily Dickinson

Answer 9

Calvinistic, Intrigued with death, never had a lover, was cloistered, went to seminary,
(1830-1886)

Question 10

Walt Whitman

Answer 10

Was a Quaker, left school and got a job at the paper,Attended the wounded in the Civil war.
(1819-1892)

Question 11

Paul Dunbar

Answer 11

First african Literary professional, Father escaped slavery, Wanted to be a lawyer, Wrote the Ante-bellum sermon (1872-1906)

Question 12

Mark Twain

Answer 12

As a teen was an apprentice printer, Became a riverboat pilot, Formed a Confederate militia,
(1835-1910)

Question 13

Etymology

Answer 13

Study of the orgins of words

Question 14

Romantic period

Answer 14

lack of restraints, opened new ways

Question 15

Victorian Period

Answer 15

A structured time

Question 16

Prosody

Answer 16

Poetic, meter, rhyme, and stress

Question 17

Scansin

Answer 17

To find the meter

Question 18

Elegy

Answer 18

song or poem expressing sorrow toward death

Question 19

Free verse

Answer 19

free no structure

Question 20

Free Soiler

Answer 20

Political national view

New land no slaves could be used on it.

Question 21

Perforce

Answer 21

Something has to be done

Question 22

Trothplight

Answer 22

Promised to one another

Question 23

The end of slavery

Answer 23

1808

Question 24

Calvinism

Answer 24

(also called the Reformed tradition or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists broke with the Roman Catholic church but differed with Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Lord’s supper, theories of worship, and the use of God’s law for believers, among other thing