Quiz 3

Question 0

Homily

Answer 0

A sermon - usually of a non-doctrinal nature; an inspirational saying or cliché

Question 1

Flashback

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Retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of a narrative

Question 2

Foil

Answer 2

A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast

Question 3

Formal/informal/colloquial

Answer 3

Language that is lofty, dignified, or impersonal; informal or colloquial language is similar to everyday speech

Question 4

Foreshadow

Answer 4

To hint at or present things to come in a story or play

Question 5

Genre

Answer 5

Term used to describe literary forms, such as tragedy, comedy, novel, or essay

Question 6

Hamartia

Answer 6

Aristotle’s term for the main character’s tragic flaw or error in judgement

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

An overstatement characterized by exaggerated language

Question 8

Imagery (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)

Answer 8

Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object; involves any or all five senses

Question 9

Inductive

Answer 9

Conclusion or type of reasoning whereby observation or information about a part of a class is applied to the class as a whole; contrast with deductive

Question 10

Inference

Answer 10

The process of arriving at a conclusion from a hint, implication, or suggestion

Question 11

Invective

Answer 11

The use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing

Question 12

In medias res

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Refers to opening a story in the middle of an action, requiring filling in past details by exposition or flashback

Question 13

Irony: verbal, dramatic, and situational

Answer 13

A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant; frequently humorous, and can be sarcastic when using words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean

Question 14

Isocolon

Answer 14

Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length

Question 15

Juxtaposition

Answer 15

Placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose

Question 16

Literal

Answer 16

The strict meaning of a word or words; not figurative or exaggerated

Question 17

Litote

Answer 17

Form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis and intensity

Question 18

Metaphor

Answer 18

The implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another unlike itself without the use of a verbal signal such as like or as; one thing is pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them

Question 19

Metonymy

Answer 19

A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to name or designate something

Question 20

Mood

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The feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view; the effect is created through descriptions of feelings or objects that establish a particular feeling such as gloom, fear, or hope

Question 21

Morés

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Folkway of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group

Question 22

Motif

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Recurrent device, formula, of situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event

Question 23

Narrative

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A form of writing that tells a story

Question 24

Narrative device

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Use of techniques such as flashbacks and/or digression in the telling of a story

Question 25

Narrator

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The “character” who “tells” the story

Question 26

Nostalgia

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Desire to return in thought or fact to a former time

Question 27

Onomatopoeia

Answer 27

A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes

Question 28

Opening

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The first part or beginning of a piece of writing

Question 29

Overstatement

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Exaggerated language

Question 30

Oxymoron

Answer 30

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

Question 31

Paradox

Answer 31

A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true

Question 32

Parallelism (parallel structure)

Answer 32

Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance

Question 33

Parody

Answer 33

A satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject

Question 34

Persona

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The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may of may not share the values of the actual author

Question 35

Polysyndeton

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The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession

Question 36

Pedantic

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Ostentatious in one’s learning; overly concerned with minute details of formalisms, especially in teaching

Question 37

Personification

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Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by giving it human qualities

Question 38

Perspective

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A character’s view of the situation or events in the story

Question 39

Point of view

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The view the reader gets of the action and characters in a story

Question 40

Propaganda

Answer 40

Information of rumor deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution

Question 41

Prose

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The ordinary of form of written language without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse

Question 42

Protagonist

Answer 42

The chief character in a work of liteature