Quiz 1

Question 1

The literal dictionary dictionary definition of a word

Answer 1

Denotation

Question 2

The personal definition or associated triggered by a word, words that stir up your emotions

Answer 2

Connotation

Question 3

The attitude expressed by the writer towards the subject

Answer 3

Tone

Question 4

The person who is speaking in a poem, the voice of the poem

Answer 4

Speaker

Question 5

The person who is telling the story, the voice of the story

Answer 5

Narrator

Question 6

The personality or style of the writer that seems to come alive in the words

Answer 6

Voice

Question 7

This has two meanings, there is a surface and something beyond the surface

Answer 7

Allegory

Question 8

This is a word meaning a reference to another literary/artistic/historic work

Answer 8

Allusion

Question 9

Repetition of initial constant sounds

Answer 9

Alliteration

Question 10

Repetition of internal vowel sounds

Answer 10

Assonance

Question 11

Repetition of constance sounds at then end of the word

Answer 11

Consonance

Question 12

When a poem is addressed on an object that is not alive, like the wind, sea or even a word like courage

Answer 12

Apostrophe

Question 13

An exaggeration in figurative language for effect of something

Answer 13

Hyperbole

Question 14

Words that sound like sounds, pow, bam, snap

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia

Question 15

Undermines a certain topic, the opposite of a hyperbole

Answer 15

Understatement

Question 16

A group of lines that are together in a poem

Answer 16

Stanza

Question 17

Describes rhythm in a poem, refers to a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable

Answer 17

Meter

Question 18

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables but commonly ten sounds, five words

Answer 18

Iambic Pentameter

Question 19

This is a Iambic Pentameter that does not rhyme

Answer 19

Blank verse

Question 20

Public speaking where someone takes a dramatic pause, a break or pause in speaking

Answer 20

Caesura

Question 21

A poem about the loss of someone or something

Answer 21

Elegy

Question 22

This is a two lined poem

Answer 22

Couplet

Question 23

This is a four lined poem

Answer 23

Quatrain

Question 24

This is a poem with 6 lines

Answer 24

Sestet

Question 25

This is a poem with 8 lines

Answer 25

Octave

Question 26

A brief comment by an actor that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other actors

Answer 26

Aside

Question 27

Poetry without standardized rhyme meter or structure, its not formless but relies on its own words to determine its best form

Answer 27

Free verse

Question 28

When one person on stage is talking to him or herself

Answer 28

Soliloquy

Question 29

The poet or actor in a play speaks through the voice and personality of another person

Answer 29

Dramatic Monologue

Question 30

This is the perspective from which the narrator speaks to us

Answer 30

Point of View

Question 31

A poem that tells a story

Answer 31

Narrative Poetry

Question 32

When the emotion feeling of thoughts of someone is put into a song

Answer 32

Lyrical poetry

Question 33

Descriptive language that helps us see hear smell taste or feel

Answer 33

Imagery

Question 34

The environment in which the work takes place

Answer 34

Setting

Question 35

The overall meaning we derive from the poem story or essay

Answer 35

Theme

Question 36

The structure of the story, the pattern twists and turns the story takes

Answer 36

Plot

Question 37

The resolution of the plot in fiction or drama

Answer 37

Denouement

Question 38

Minor Themes

Answer 38

Motif

Question 39

The difference between expectation and reality, sarcasm

Answer 39

Verbal Irony

Question 40

This is when the audience knows more than the character does in a play or movie

Answer 40

Dramatic Irony

Question 41

This is what is expected to happen but doesn't, Dying of thirst on an island

Answer 41

Situational irony

Question 42

Not knowning but the use of a word in the wrong way that makes you look stupid

Answer 42

Malapropism

Question 43

Comparing two things, a direct comparison

Answer 43

Metaphor

Question 44

An announced indirect comparison using Like or As

Answer 44

Simile

Question 45

Giving objects people like features

Answer 45

Personification

Question 46

Hints and clues of what might happen next in a story or play

Answer 46

Foreshadowing

Question 47

Possible truths, internal conflict within a certain effect

Answer 47

Paradox

Question 48

An object or action that represents more than itself

Answer 48

Symbolism

Question 49

Part of something that stands for a whole, "all hands on deck" "Check out my new wheels"

Answer 49

Synecdoche

Question 50

One thing that is represented by another and closely associated with

Answer 50

Metonymy