UCLR 100E-002

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of an initial consonant sound in a series of words or phrases

Question 2

assonance

Answer 2

the repetition of vowel sounds

Question 3

consonance

Answer 3

repetition of ending consonants

Question 4

repetitions

Answer 4

alliteration, assonance, consonance

Question 5

meter

Answer 5

basic rhythmic structure of a poem

Question 6

stanza

Answer 6

unit in poetry formed by two or more lines set off by spaces

Question 7

stanza break

Answer 7

refers to where the stanza ends

Question 8

enjambment

Answer 8

a breaking of a line of poetry midstream in the middle of a sentence, phrase or clause.

Question 9

metaphor

Answer 9

comparison in which a person, place, or thing is described as being something else

Question 10

simile

Answer 10

comparisons that use the words like or as- call attention to the act of comparing

Question 11

connotative meaning

Answer 11

emotional or cultural meanings of a word

Question 12

denotative meaning

Answer 12

literal meaning of a word

Question 13

rhyme

Answer 13

the repetition of syllables, technically at the end of a verse line.

Question 14

rhyme scheme

Answer 14

the pattern of end rhymes in a stanza

Question 15

end rhyme

Answer 15

rhyming of the final syllables of a line

Question 16

half rhyme

Answer 16

rhyming of the ending consonant sounds in a word

Question 17

eye rhymes

Answer 17

rhyme only when spelled not pronounced

Question 18

identical rhymes

Answer 18

employ the same word, identically in sound and in sense, twice in rhyming positions

Question 19

internal rhymes

Answer 19

rhyme within a single line of verse when a word from the middle of a line is rhymed with a word at the end of the line

Question 20

end-stopped

Answer 20

a metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break- such as a dash or closing parenthesis- or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period.

Question 21

personification

Answer 21

poet describes an abstraction, a thing or a nonhuman form as if it were a person

Question 22

allusion

Answer 22

a brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.

Question 23

apostrophe

Answer 23

an address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present

Question 24

dramatic monologue

Answer 24

a poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader.

Question 25

character description

Answer 25

information presented about the people who appear in literary texts

Question 26

setting

Answer 26

describes the time, place, and social environment of the world of the text

Question 27

context

Answer 27

environment in which the text was written

Question 28

perspective

Answer 28

viewpoint from which the story is told

Question 29

allegory

Answer 29

extended comparison in which people and events in a text represent specific ideas or concepts

Question 30

situational irony

Answer 30

tensions between what we expect and what actually happen

Question 31

dramatic irony

Answer 31

when there is an incongruity between what the audience knows and what a character believes.

Question 32

verbal irony

Answer 32

when the literal meaning of a word or phrase conflicts with an implied or underlying meaning

Question 33

plot

Answer 33

the plan, design, scheme, or pattern of events in a play, poem, or work of fiction. the organization of incident and character in such a way as to induce curiosity and suspense in the reader.

Question 34

conflict

Answer 34

a struggle between two opposing forces. can be internal (w/in a character) or external (b/w a character and an outside force).

Question 35

rising action

Answer 35

series of events in a narrative that create suspense or tension

Question 36

climax

Answer 36

particular point in a narrative where the conflict becomes most intense

Question 37

falling action

Answer 37

the point in a plot where the main conflict resolves.

Question 38

resolution/ denouement

Answer 38

the clearing up of the complications in a play or story

Question 39

complication

Answer 39

an intensification of the conflict in a story or play

Question 40

recognition

Answer 40

the point in the plot at which a character understands their situation as it really is

Question 41

sub-plot

Answer 41

a subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play that coexists with the main plot

Question 42

frame story

Answer 42

narrative that contains either another tale or a story within a story

Question 43

dialogue

Answer 43

the speech of characters in any kind of narrative, story or play
-direct speech: the exact words quoted
-reported speech: paraphrase of what someone said

Question 44

dialect

Answer 44

refers to the spelling, sounds, grammar, and pronunciation used by a particular group of characters, and it distinguishes them from “normative” speakers.

Question 45

first person narrative

Answer 45

story told from the perspective of one of the characters using the pronoun ‘I”

Question 46

third person narrative

Answer 46

the narrator is not a character in the story

Question 47

reliable narrator

Answer 47

narrator whose accounts and perspective we trust

Question 48

unreliable narrator

Answer 48

narrator whose accounts and perspective we do not trust

Question 49

omniscient perspective

Answer 49

all knowing narrator

Question 50

limited perspective

Answer 50

only able to see events through the eyesof a particular character