test 1

Question 0

Allitteration

Answer 0

repetitive initial sounds

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one (refers to the entire piece of work)

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Reference to literary or historical event, person, or place

Question 3

Anapestic

Answer 3

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed (ex. Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house/Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse”

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses

Question 5

Anecdote

Answer 5

a brief story/tale told by a character in a piece of literature

Question 6

Antagonist

Answer 6

any force that opposes the main character/protagonist

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

Question 8

Apostrophe

Answer 8

to address something inanimate

Question 9

Archetype

Answer 9

recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images (stereotypes)

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

Conjunctions omitted “i came, i saw, i conquered”

Question 11

Assonance

Answer 11

repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

Question 12

Attitude

Answer 12

sense expressed by tone of voice/mood of piece of writing

Question 13

Ballad

Answer 13

a narrative poem that is/was originally meant to be sung

Question 14

Ballad stanza

Answer 14

stanza consisting of a quatrain (4 lines) alternates 4 beats and 3 beat lines (1 and 3 are unrhymed - iambic tetrameter; 2 and 4 rhyme - iambic trimeter)

Question 15

Blank verse

Answer 15

verse form that most resembles common speech, consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter

Question 16

Caesura

Answer 16

a pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns

Question 17

Caricature

Answer 17

depiction of character’s characteristics - exaggerated

Question 18

Chiamus

Answer 18

figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second “pleasure’s a sin and sometimes sin’s a pleasure

Question 19

Colloquial

Answer 19

Variations of the same word (bubbler, water fountain)

Question 20

Conceit

Answer 20

extended metaphor throughout a piece of literature/poem

Question 21

Connotation

Answer 21

ideas suggested by words