Narrative, Drama, and Poetry

Question 1

What are the Subtypes of Metaphor

Answer 1

• Personification - Inanimate characteristics to refer to animate things
• Simile - Comparing with “Like” or “as”
• Synecdoche - Using parts to describe the whole (or vice versa) “all hands on deck”
• Metonymy - Two things are close enough that they’re referred to as the same thing “Shakeshperian sonnet”
• Analogy - “Iamb is the major key of meter”

Question 2

Similie

Answer 2

Comparing things together with “like” or “as”

Question 3

Synechdoche

Answer 3

Parts are used to refer to the whole (or vice versa)

“All hands on deck”

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

A term closely associated with the subject is used instead of the subject
- Greek for “a change in name”
- Ex. Ottawa = The federal government

Question 5

Analogy

Figurative Language

Answer 5

Subspecies of metaphor that compares two things on different levels

“Iamb is the major key of meters”

Iamb is the meters as the major key is to music

Question 6

Repitition

Figurative Language

Answer 6

The recurrence of a word, phrase, sound, line length, patter, or any element in the poem

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

The Repitition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel wounds in successive or closely associateed syllables.

“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”

Question 8

Consonance

Figurative Language

Answer 8

Repitition of final consonants without regard to preceding vowels

“Hickory dickory dock”

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Repitition of vowel sounds

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

The same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines of verse

Question 11

Analepsis

Answer 11

Going back in time to tell the story

Question 12

Prolepsis

Answer 12

Going forward in time to tell the story

Question 13

Dramatic Irony

Answer 13

The audience knows something the characters don’t

Question 14

What are the key features of the Greek tragedy

Answer 14

• Catharsis - The release of emotions
• Hamartia - Fatal Flaw
• Anagnorisis - The discovery
• Peripepetia - The Reversal

Question 15

Types of Meter

The main two

Answer 15

Iamb - “Major” da-DUM

Trochee - “Minor” DA-dum

Question 16

What are the types of poetry?

Answer 16

• Lyric
  
  • Shaksperian (English)
    
    • 3 quatrians and the concluding couplet
    • Iambic pentameter
• Epic
• Dramatic

Question 17

Connotation vs Denotation

Answer 17

Conotation - The range of secondary or associated significances and feelings which it commonly evokes.
- The feelings and imagry that come with a thing

Denotation - the literal meaning

Question 18

Enjambment

Answer 18

The continuation of the grammatical construction of a line to the next
- Makes the peem rapid and colloquila
- Builds tension
- Used to suprise readers

Question 19

Caesura

Answer 19

A pause in the line of a verse
- Can empasise or counter flow of ideas

Question 20

End-Stop Line

Answer 20

Lines where the pause lines up with the end of the line

Question 21

Ictus

Answer 21

(‘) Marks the stressed syllable

Question 22

Breve

Poetry

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(⌣) marks the unstressed syllable

Question 23

What are the characteristics of lyric poetry?

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• Subjective
• Deals with a single theme
• Non-Narrative
• Short

Question 24

Types of Narrative Voice

Answer 24

3rd Person (omniscient) - Knows all

1st Person - Knowledge is limited

Question 25

Tone | Literature

Answer 25

The narrator's attitude (or perspective)

Question 26

Mood | Literature

Answer 26

The emotions or feeling envoked in the reader

Question 27

Rhetoric

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The art of public speaking

Question 28

Ideology

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A person's beliefs, values, and worldviews, alongside how those things influence how they think, behave, and influence the world around them

Question 29

Literature

Answer 29

No “essence”. Properties are dependent on the context of the relationship one has with them * The effect of relationships

Question 30

Types of Clauses | Sentance structure

Answer 30

**Independant Clause** (Simple Sentance) - Can stand on its own as a complete snetance **Dependant or Subordinate Clause** - Does not express a complete thought even though it may also contain a subject and predicate. CAN NOT STAND ON ITS OWN. **Begins wth subordinating conjnctions**. - Jeff laughed nervously *whenever the boss came around*. **Relative Clause** - Modifies a noun or pronoun and **always begins with a relative pronoun** (who, that, which, etc.) - "Steroids *that are used to increase muscle density* have many harmful side effects."

Question 31

Subject | Sentance Structure

Answer 31

The thing preforming the action

Question 32

What are the types of a sentance

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* Compound * Complex * Simple

Question 33

Retrospection

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Something important that happend in the past of the narrative

Question 34

Narration

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The "voice" of the story. The one telling the events - Absent in drama

Question 35

Chorus | Greek Tragedy

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Provides foreshadowing and gives tha author's perspective

Question 36

Exposistion

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Any information directly given to the audience - often at the begining of a story - Provides context

Question 37

Sentence types | 3 of them

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**Simple Sentences** - One clause, and no subordinate clauses - "The toy figures spun together **Compound Sentences** - Two or more main clauses, no subordainate clauses - "A hawk swooped between the houses: however, it narrowly missed the dove at the bird feeder." **Complex Sentences** - One main clause and one or more subordnate clauses - "Mike walked to his care *when he got out of class*.

Question 38

Narrative Structure of Greek Tragedy

Answer 38

**Prologue** - Introduction **Prados** - Entrance of the chorus **Episodes** - Scenes of diologue **Stasimon** - Choral odes "intermissions" **Exodus** - Conclusion

Question 39

Characteristics of Modernism | Literary Era

Answer 39

- Challenges Western Conventions - Exploration of the nature of reality or existance

Question 40

Characteristics of Poetry

Answer 40

* Concentration of language * Appeal to emotions * Use of rhythm and rhyme * No narrators * Usually deals with a single theme or emotion

Question 41

Characteristics of Short Stories

Answer 41

- Short - Concentrated Narrative ( what is said is meaningful) - Narraction

Question 42

What are the three major rhetorical strategies?

Answer 42

• Pathos • Logos • Ethos

Question 43

Pathos

Answer 43

Appeal to senses and emotions

Question 44

Logos | Rhetorical Strategy

Answer 44

Appeal to reason

Question 45

Ethos

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Appeal to ethics and morals

Question 46

Tragedy | Literary Genre

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“Aristotle defines tragedy as the imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.” - often follows the downfall of a character due to their own actions

Question 47

Genre

Answer 47

“Genre denotes a type or category into which literary works can be grouped.”

Question 48

Close Reading

Answer 48

Close reading is the explication of the ambiguities and complexities of figurative language in literary texts. - “To explicate” means to make clear, to explain, to unfold the meaning of an element of a text. Close reading involves: - **the identification** and exploration of the literary devices of a text. - **the explanation** of their significance within the text. - **the interpretation** of their contribution to a larger theme, or argument concerning the text.