terms (part 1)

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words

ex. “To make a man to meet the moral need/ A man to match the mountains and the sea”

Question 2

anaphora

Answer 2

the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

ex. i wish i may, i wish i might

Question 3

antagonist

Answer 3

opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story

ex. scar in the lion king

Question 4

antanaclasis

Answer 4

repetition of a word in two different senses

ex. if we do not hang together, we will hang separately

think: ant vs classics don’t make sense together

Question 5

antihero

Answer 5

central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. he/she may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples

ex. raskolnikov (crime and punishment), loki (marvel), sherlock holmes (sherlock)

Question 6

antimetabole

Answer 6

the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

ex. one should eat to live, not live to eat (socrates), if you fail to plan, you plan to fail

think: anti-GRAMMAR

Question 7

apostrophe

Answer 7

calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.

note: if the character is asking for a god/goddess for inspiration, it’s called invocation

ex. love: who needs it? // twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are

Question 8

chiasmus

Answer 8

inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases

ex. when the going gets tough, the tough get going (simone, the lion king) // never kiss a fool and never let a fool kiss you

Question 9

didactic

Answer 9

form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or proves a model of correct behaviour or thinking

note: often dry and pompous

think: DIEdactic

Question 10

elegy

Answer 10

a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.

Question 11

elegy

Answer 11

a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.

Question 12

eulogy

Answer 12

a great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died

Question 13

epanalepsis

Answer 13

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

ex. blood hath brought blood

think: epilepsy happens at the beginning and the end

Question 14

epistrophe

Answer 14

repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses

ex. i want the best, we need the best, and we deserve the best (jfk)

Question 15

external conflict

Answer 15

conflicts can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine, or between a person and a whole society

Question 16

flashback

Answer 16

a part of the plot that moves back in time and then returns to the present

ex. “great balls of fire” beach scene in tgm

Question 17

internal conflict

Answer 17

a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person’s mind

ex. pip wanting to be a gentleman but not hurt joe’s feelings

Question 18

irony

Answer 18

writing or speaking implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken

ex. “what a beautiful day” during a tornado

Question 19

verbal irony

Answer 19

when someone says one thing and means another

Question 20

situational irony

Answer 20

takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen or what would be appropriate to happen and what actually happens

Question 21

cosmic irony

Answer 21

a situational irony that emphasizes the pessimistic and fatalistic side of life

Question 22

dramatic irony

Answer 22

as on stage, a character thinks one thing is true, but the audience knows better

Question 23

motif

Answer 23

a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by typing the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme

ex. fire in jane eyre, the green light in the great gatsby

Question 24

polysyndeton

Answer 24

a sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series

ex. “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays”

think: polysyndeton is a king word, so it means long sentences

Question 25

protagonist

Answer 25

the main character in a piece of literature; the figure in the narrative whose interests the reader is most concerned about and sympathetic toward. usually the hero or antihero

ex. harry potter, percy jackson, richard papen