Terms Quiz (5/18/16)

Question 1

An imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight. It is designed to produce a single impression and is short enough to be read in one sitting.

Answer 1

Short Story

Question 2

The author tells the story from the viewpoint of one character, using either first person or third person.

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Limited Point of View

Question 3

A phrase or sentence, which is repeated at intervals, usually at the end of a stanza.

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Refrain

Question 4

An all-knowing author is the narrator, who comments freely on the actions and characters. He is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they think or feel.

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Omniscient Point of View

Question 5

The repetition of ideas in slightly differing form; the construction of two or more thoughts in the same pattern

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Parallelism

Question 6

Made up of two parts, an octave and a sested, which represent a division in thought. The octave has a rhyme scheme abba abba and presents a situation or idea or raises a question; the sestet may have one of several rhyme schemes such as cdcdcd or cdecde or ccddee, and responds to the octave by making a comment, giving an eample, or answering a question.

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Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet

Question 7

The narrator of a poem or other literary work.

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Speaker

Question 8

Rhyme involving two or more syllables.

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Feminine Rhyme

Question 9

The author presents the characters in action with no comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them.

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Objective Point of View

Question 10

A group of repeated lines usually containing the same meter and rhyme scheme.

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Stanza

Question 11

Using words which sound like what they mean

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Onomatopoeia

Question 12

The regular recurrence of a sound.

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Rhythm

Question 13

Sound similarities that occur between words which are not true rhymes.

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Approximate Rhyme

Question 14

The physical background against which the events of the story take place.

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Setting

Question 15

The ridicule of human folly or vice with a purpose of correction it.

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Satire

Question 16

A comparison to which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal.

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Personification

Question 17

The main character in a novel or story; the hero.

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Protagonist

Question 18

A view of life emphasizing man’s aspirations, emotions, individuality, personal experiences, and imagination.

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Romanticism

Question 19

Anonymous songs expressing faith and hope, composed by Negro slaves and plantation workers.

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Spirituals

Question 20

The twist at the end of a story which goes contrary to the reader’s expectations.

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Surprise Ending

Question 21

The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward his subject, and in turn, the response whcih the writer intends for his readers.

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Tone

Question 22

A retelling of a work in one’s own words.

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Paraphrase

Question 23

Writing depicting a particular geographical location. (It accurately represents the manners, speech, beliefs, and history of a region.)

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Regionalism

Question 24

The representation of something as less than it is (a form of irony).

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Understatement

Question 25

The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and ll succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines in poetry.

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End Rhyme

Question 26

The reader’s feeling of uncertainty regarding the action or outcome of a story. (It is an element that keeps the reader’s interest.)

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Suspense

Question 27

A concern with faithfully depicting subject matter or representing real life accurately in literature.

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Realism

Question 28

The repeating of words, phrases, sounds, or ideas for emphasis or particular effect.

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Repetition

Question 29

The correspondence of sounds.

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Rhyme

Question 30

The controlling idea or insight into life whcih the author seeks to impart through characters, plot, and all the elements working together.

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Theme

Question 31

A truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction

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Paradox

Question 32

In American literature, the period between 1830 and 1865.

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Romantic Period

Question 33

A fictitious name or pen name used by an author.

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Pseudonym

Question 34

A group of six lines.

Answer 34

Sestet

Question 35

Made up of three quatrains and a couplet and having a rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

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English or Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 36

A group of four lines.

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Quatrain

Question 37

The arrangement of incidents or events in a story or novel; the sequence of related actions. (It can usually be divided into a beginning, a middle, and an end.)

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Plot

Question 38

The false religious philosophy founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and practiced by Henery David Thoreau and others.

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Transendentalism

Question 39

Rhyme involving only one syllable.

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Masculine Rhyme

Question 40

A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, English or Italian.

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Sonnet

Question 41

An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used.

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Simile

Question 42

Something which has meaning in itself but also represents something beyound itself.

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Symbol

Question 43

Rhyme that occurs within the line.

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Internal Rhyme

Question 44

In American literature, the period between 1865 and 1900.

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Realistic Period

Question 45

The method of presenting the reader with the material of the story; the perspective from which the story is told.

Answer 45

Point of View

Question 46

A play on words, sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar meaning or sound of different words.

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Pun