Tues

Question 1

Farce

Answer 1

Literary work characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slap stick or other physical humor

Question 2

Feminine ending

Answer 2

A line of verse having an unstressed verse

Question 3

Figures of speech

Answer 3

Any word or phrase that create a “figure” in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or order of words

Question 4

Flashback

Answer 4

Plot structuring device whereby a scene from the fictional past is inserted into the fictional present

Question 5

Foil

Answer 5

Character that serves as a contrast to another

Question 6

Foreshadowing

Answer 6

Hint or clue about what will happen at a later moment in the plot

Question 7

Formal diction

Answer 7

Speech that is impersonal and dignified

Question 8

Formula fiction

Answer 8

Type of fiction where multiple books or fictional worlds share many common elements, to the point of being predictable

Question 9

Free verse

Answer 9

Poetry characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non rhyming lines

Question 10

Genre

Answer 10

A type of category of works sharing particular formal or textual features

Question 11

Haiku

Answer 11

Poetic form that consists of 17 syllables arranged in 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 8 syllables respectively

Question 12

Heroic couplet

Answer 12

Consisting of 2 rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

Question 13

History play

Answer 13

Drama with a theme from history consisting loosely connected episodes chronologically arranged

Question 14

Hubris

Answer 14

Extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that brings about his downfall

Question 15

Hyperbole

Answer 15

Exaggerated language to highlight a significance

Question 16

Iambic meter

Answer 16

Metrical form in ehich each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Question 17

In medias res

Answer 17

Story that starts in the mist of action

Question 18

Irony

Answer 18

Situation or statement that is completely different that was was expected

Question 19

Jargon

Answer 19

Use of specific phrases or words by writers in a particular situation

Question 20

Limerick

Answer 20

Humorous verse form consisting of mainly anapestic lines

Question 21

Lyric

Answer 21

Originally a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a Lyne

Question 22

Melodrama

Answer 22

Drama in a play that has exaggerated meaning

Question 23

Meter

Answer 23

The none or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Question 24

Miracle play

Answer 24

Medieval drama from dealing with religious subjects such as biblical stones or saint’s lives

Question 25

Naive character

Answer 25

Character within a story whose voice is used to check a sense of ironic observation through their own inexperience or innocence

Question 26

Naturalism

Answer 26

A manner or technique of threating subject matter they presents through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human nature

Question 27

Objective point of view

Answer 27

The writers tells what is happening with out stating more than can be inferred from the story’s action and dialogue

Question 28

Octave

Answer 28

Eight lines of verse lined by a pattern of end rhymes, especially the first eight lines of an Italian

Question 29

Falling action

Answer 29

The 4th of the 5 plots in which the conflict moves toward the resolution