secondary poetry and literary terms

Question 1

ACTIVE VOICE

Answer 1

a sentence is written so that the subject is an actor of the verb – for example, ‘The cat ate the mouse.’ The cat is the subject and the cat is doing the action.

Question 2

ALLEGORY

Answer 2

a story in which the literal meaning represents another level of meaning. It is a form of an extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions are associated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed or envy. Thus, an allegory is a story with two meanings: a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Question 3

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE

Answer 3

informal account of evidence from anecdote or hearsay.

Question 4

ARCHAIC LANGUAGE

Answer 4

words or phrases that are no longer commonly used. For

example, using ‘thou’ instead of ‘you’.