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Question 1

Archaism

Answer 1

Literary use of obsolete language.

Question 2

Archetype

Answer 2

Themes, images, and narrative patterns that are universal and thus embody some enduring aspects of human experience.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of vowel sounds in a line, stanza, or sentance.

Question 4

Atmosphere

Answer 4

The general feeling or mood created in the reader by a work.

Question 5

Aubade

Answer 5

A love song or lyric to be performed at sunrise

Question 6

Ballad

Answer 6

A narrative poem, originally of folk origin, usually focusing on a climatic episode and told without comment.

Question 7

Blank verse

Answer 7

Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Question 8

Caesura

Answer 8

A strong pause within a line of poetry.

Question 9

Carpe diem

Answer 9

Latin, meaning “seize the day.”

Question 10

Catharsis

Answer 10

A key concept in the Poetics of Aristotle that attempts to explain why representations of suffering and death in drama paradoxically leave the audience feeling relieved rather than depressed.

Question 11

Central inelligence

Answer 11

The person or intelligence a writer of fiction creates to tell the story to the reader.

Question 12

Character

Answer 12

A person or figure in a literary work, sometimes classified as either flat (quickly describable) or round (more developed, complex).