Midterm

Question 0

Allusion

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A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

Question 1

Allegory

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A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning-a literal level and one or more symbolic levels. The events, setting, and characters in an allegory are symbols for ideas or qualities

Question 2

Characterization

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The act of creating and developing a character.
Direct characterization- the author directly states a character’s traits
Indirect characterization- the author shows a character’s personality through his or her actions, thoughts, feelings, words, and appearance or through another character’s observations and reactions

Question 3

Climax

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The high point of interest or suspense. The events that make up the rising action lead to the climax. The events that make up the falling action follow the climax

Question 4

Conflict

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A struggle between opposing forces. Character’s in conflict form the basis of stories, novels, and plays.
External conflict- the main character struggles against an outside force
Internal conflict- involves a character in conflict with himself or herself

Question 5

Couplet

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A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter. A couplet generally expresses a single idea

Question 6

Cultural conflict

Answer 6

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Question 7

Epic

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A long narrative or narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes.

Question 8

Epic hero

Answer 8

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Question 9

Extended metaphor

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A subject is described as though it were something else. Several comparisons are made and the comparisons are sustained for several lines or for an entire poem

Question 10

Foot

Answer 10

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Question 11

Foreshadowing

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The use in the literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur

Question 12

Metaphor

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

Question 13

Mood

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The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Question 14

Narrator

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A speaker or character who tells a story. Outside observer or character in the story

Question 15

Personification

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A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Question 16

Plot elements

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Development-rising action, climax

Falling action/denouncement, resolution

Question 17

Rhyme scheme

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A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme scheme

Question 18

Rhythm

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The pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language

Question 19

Setting

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The time and place of the action

Question 20

Simile

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A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two unlike ideas

Question 21

Sonnet

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A fourteen-line lyric, usually written in iambic pentameter

Question 22

Speaker

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The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem. In many poems the speaker is not identified by name

Question 23

Symbol

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Anything that stands for or represents something else

Question 24

Suspense

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The feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work

Question 25

Theme

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A central message or insight revealed through a literary work

Question 26

Universal theme

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A message about life that can be understood by most cultures