test 3

Question 0

limited point of view

Answer 0

perspective confined to a single character

Question 1

juxtapostion

Answer 1

two items side by side reveals an attitude or accomplishes some purpose of the writer

Question 2

litote

Answer 2

emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement

Question 3

loose sentence

Answer 3

sentence grammatically complete, usually stating its main idea before the end

I went to the movie yesterday, but candy, and shocked at the mall

Question 4

lyric

Answer 4

poem meant to be sung

Question 5

message

Answer 5

central idea or statement of a story or area of inquiry or explanation NOT THEME

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

comparison without “like” or “as”

Question 7

meter

Answer 7

the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllablesin a line of poetry

Question 8

metonymy

Answer 8

when a commonly assoc feature is used to name or designate something else “pen is mightier than its sword”

Question 9

mood

Answer 9

a feeling resulting from the tone of the peice as well as the narrators attitude and point of view

Question 10

motif

Answer 10

reoccuring device, formula, situation- often a signal for the appearance of a character or event

Question 11

narrative structure

Answer 11

organization of narrative

Question 12

narrator

Answer 12

“charac” who tells the story (in poetry called persona)

Question 13

occasional poem

Answer 13

poem written about or for a specific occasion

Question 14

ode

Answer 14

lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, is elevated in style

Question 15

omniscient point of view

Answer 15

aka unlimited focus, perspective that can be seen from one characters view then another “godly”

Question 16

onomatopeia

Answer 16

word that sounds like what its like

Question 17

overstatemetn

Answer 17

exaggerated language aka hyperbole

Question 18

oxymoron

Answer 18

figure of speech that combines two condtradictory element (jumbo shrimp, tight slacks)

Question 19

parable

Answer 19

short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lession through use of analogy

Question 20

paradox

Answer 20

statement that seems contradictory but may be actually true (fight for peace)

Question 21

parallel structure

Answer 21

use of similar forms of writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts

Question 22

paraody

Answer 22

a work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing content of original

Question 23

pastoral

Answer 23

a work that describes the simple life of country folk (aka ecologue, bucolic, idyll)

Question 24

periodic sentence

Answer 24

sentence thats not grammatically complete until the end

Question 25

persona

Answer 25

the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author (ex nick carraway in great gatsby)

Question 26

personification

Answer 26

giving inanimate objects animate actions

Question 27

polysyndeton

Answer 27

use of a number of conjunctions in close succession (and.. and… and… )