Terms

Question 1

Peripeteia

Answer 1

reversal of fortune, the fall of a person

Question 2

Anagnorisis

Answer 2

recognition, self-recognition

Question 3

Ballad

Answer 3

form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Folk Songs

Question 4

sonnet

Answer 4

14 line. uses iambic pentameter.

Question 5

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 5

three quatrains and a couplet

ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.

Question 6

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 6

the octave (the first eight lines) followed by the answering sestet (the final six lines)
ABBA ABBA     CDDECE

Question 7

sestina

Answer 7

A sestina is a poem written using a very specific, complex form. The form is French, and the poem includes six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three-line stanza at the end, or a triplet.

Each stanza repeats the end rhymes of the first stanza

1 2 3 4 5 6
6 1 5 2 4 3
3 6 4 1 2 5
5 3 2 6 1 4
4 5 1 3 6 2
2 4 6 5 3 1
(6 2) (1 4) (5 3)

Elizabeth Bishop’s “A Miracle for Breakfast”
“Sestina” by Dante Alighieri

Question 8

elegy

Answer 8

poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead.

Question 9

polysyndeton”””””””

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Polysyndeton is a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed.
ex- and gin and tea and coffee and what not

Question 10

asyndeton”””””””””

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the omission or absence of conjunction between parts of a sentence,
ex- I came, I saw, I conquered.

Question 11

caesura

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A caesura, also written cæsura and cesura, is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins.

Question 12

epistrophe——

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same word returns at the end of each sentence. Epistrophe is a stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the ends of the clauses or sentences. It is also called “epiphora.”

Question 13

anapest””””””””

Answer 13

Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed

Question 14

dactylic””””””””””

Answer 14

Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed

Question 15

iambic

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Unstressed + Stressed, trochee- stress, unstress

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spondaic

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Stressed + Stressed

Question 17

slant rhyme

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similar, but not identical sounds. Worm” and “swarm” are examples of slant rhymes.

A slant rhyme is also called a half rhyme, near rhyme, sprung rhyme, off rhyme, lazy rhyme, oblique rhyme, or approximate rhyme.

Question 18

masculine rhyme

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the stress in on the final syllable in both words. Examples include support and report, dime and sublime, divulge and bulge.

Question 19

internal rhyme

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rhyming happens within a line of poetry.

Question 20

epigram

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ingenious or witty statements are considered as epigrams.
ex- To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour. (blake, auguries of innocence)
examples of epigram used in common speech: “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put and end to mankind.” – John F. Kennedy. “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” – G.

Question 21

epitaph

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An epitaph is a brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone or monument.

Question 22

lyric poem

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lyric uses a single speaker, who expresses personal emotions or thoughts. Lyrical poems, which are often popular for their musical quality and rhythm,
types- elegy, ode, sonnet, monologue.

Question 23

ode

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odes in which poets praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas.

Question 24

panegyric’’’’’

Answer 24

rhetoric, public speech or published text in praise of someone or something

Question 25

anecdote

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short, sometimes amusing, story that is told to make a point. A short, amusing true story

Question 26

enjambment”””””

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enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
ex- donne- I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?

Question 27

anachronism

Answer 27

Anachronism is derived from the Greek word anachronous, which means “against time.” Therefore, an anachronism is an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece. … Similarly, the presence of a wall clock in a stage setting that depicts the interior of a Roman fort is an anachronism.

Question 28

Volta

Answer 28

The fourteen lines are divided into two sections, usually of eight lines and six. The break between the two parts is known as the volta.
volta is the turn of thought or argument:

Question 29

epigraph

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epigraph is a brief quotation set at the beginning of a text (a book, a chapter of a book, an essay, a poem) to suggest its theme.

Question 30

Apostrophe””””””””””

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Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses someone (or something) that is not present or cannot respond in reality.

Apostrophe appears most often in poetry and plays, though it can appear in prose literature as well.
Apostrophe always addresses its object in the second person.

Question 31

conceit

Answer 31

Conceit develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative. A comparison turns into a conceit when the writer tries to make us admit a similarity between two things of whose unlikeness we are strongly conscious. For this reason, conceits are often surprising.

Question 32

Terza rima

Answer 32

rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. It was first used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
the first and third lines rhyming with one another and the second rhyming with the first and third of the following tercet.
ABA BCB CDC.. Ode to the west wind P B Shelley

Question 33

heroic couplet

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pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer

Question 34

rhetoric

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figure of speech

Question 35

prosody

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study of meter, or regular patterns of rhythm, especially in poetry.

Question 36

rhetoric

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figure of speech

Question 37

prosody

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study of meter, or regular patterns of rhythm, especially in poetry.

Question 38

Epistolary novel

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written in the form of letters

Question 39

peripatetic

Answer 39

followers of aristotle