Terms Quiz (5/13/16)

Question 1

A strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor.

Answer 1

Conceit

Question 2

Telling the reader directly what the character is like.

Answer 2

Direct Exposition

Question 3

A compact statement expressing a truth.

Answer 3

Aphorism

Question 4

A metaphor which is developed at length and is often the controlling image running throughout a literary work.

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Extended Metaphor

Question 5

An antiphilosophy that maintains that there are no absolutes and this no purpose in the world.

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Existentialism

Question 6

An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.

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Metaphor

Question 7

The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning, usually with a humorous effect.

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Irony

Question 8

Two rhyming lines which expresses a complete thought.

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Couplet

Question 9

One who tells the story in a work.

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Narrator

Question 10

The one with whom the protagonist comes into conflict within a novel or story; the opposing character. (ex: Moby Dick, from Moby Dick; Roger Chillingworth, from The Scarlet Letter)

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Antagonist

Question 11

Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Blank Verse

Question 12

The pattern in a line of poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables.

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Foot

Question 13

The repetition of vowel sounds.

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Assonance

Question 14

A view of life which emphasizes a detached scientific and photographic accuracy which includes everything and selects nothing.

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Naturalism

Question 15

Regional language used by a writer to make his dialogue more realistic.

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Dialect

Question 16

The popular poets of the nineteenth century whose works were read by family and friends around the fireside and were learned and memorized in school.

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Fireside and Schoolroom Poets

Question 17

Presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment.

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Irony of Situation

Question 18

The suggested meaning or association of a word.

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Connotation

Question 19

A type of realistic, regional writing portraying the life of a particular geographical location by using picturesque details of setting which emphasize the quaint customs and dialect of the region.

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Local Color

Question 20

Three writers from New York (Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant) who wrote during the first part of the nineteenth century.

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Knickerbockers

Question 21

A conversation between two or more characters often in the form of a debate and used for developing or explaining ideas.

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Dialogue

Question 22

A group of eight lines.

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Octave

Question 23

The clash of actions, ideas, wills, or forces between characters or between a character and some inanimate force.

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External Conflict

Question 24

The imaginary persons who carry out the action of the plot in a story or novel.

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Characters

Question 25

An approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same.

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Alliteration

Question 26

Incorrect spelling often used for humorous effect.

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Cacography

Question 27

Poetry having no metrical pattern. It differs from prose only in that it is written in lines.

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Free Verse

Question 28

One who undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story. (ex: Candace Whitcomb from "The Village Singer")

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Dynamic Character

Question 29

A prose work of moderate length in which the writer tries to develop his own thoughts on some subject.

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Essay

Question 30

The repetition of final consonant sounds.

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Consonance

Question 31

A long narrative poem in elevated style which presents characters and action of heroic proportions.

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Epic

Question 32

A reference to mythology, history, or literature.

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Allusion

Question 33

Words addressed to an inanimate object as if it were alive or to an absent person as if he were there.

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Apostrophe

Question 34

An analogy used by the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century, usually comparing one's spiritual qualities to a common physical object.

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Metaphysical Conceit

Question 35

A type of extended prose fiction (meaning "new").

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Novel

Question 36

A brief literary piece written as a tribute to a dead person, or an inscription on tombstone or monument in memory in memory of a deceased person.

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Epitaph

Question 37

A poem that tells a story.

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Narrative Poem

Question 38

A short narrative song written in stanzas.

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Ballad

Question 39

Saying the opposite of what is meant.

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Verbal Irony

Question 40

The point of highest intensity in a story or a poem.

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Climax

Question 41

A struggle between opposing forces.

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Conflict

Question 42

Literary devises using comparisons (simile, metaphor, and personifications) or language on more than one level (symbolism, irony, paradox, and allusions).

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Figurative Language (figures of speech)

Question 43

A struggle within the mind, will, or emotions of a character.

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Internal Conflict

Question 44

A narrative or description in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols. (ex: Pilgrim's Progress)

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Allegory

Question 45

A portrait of a specific person. Presents those characteristics that set a character apart as an individual personality and show what he is like.

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Character Sketch

Question 46

One who remains essentially the same throughout the story. (ex: Captain Ahab from Moby Dick)

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Static Character

Question 47

The use of words which appeal to out senses.

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Imagery

Question 48

The occurrence of rhythm at regular intervals.

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Meter

Question 49

Allowing the reader to draw his own conclusions from what the character himself does or thinks, or from what other characters think about him.

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Indirect Revelation

Question 50

The literal meaning of a word.

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Denotation

Question 51

A brief anecdote told in simple, direct style in prose or verse, describing a single incident and designed to reach a moral, usually by using animals as characters.

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Fable

Question 52

Contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to by true.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 53

The narrative technique of going backward to time.

Answer 53

Flashback