Unit 1 Liteary Terms

Question 0

Imagery

Answer 0

sensory details that make a work vivid- bring it alive- details that appeal to the sense.

(peered into the darkness)
(furtive silver glintings)
(water flowed slowly)
(indolent gurgle)

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”, “then,” or “resembles”

(like mourning weeds, dark festoons of seagrass slimily swept to and fro over the name with every hearselike roll of the hull.)

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

implied or stated comparison between two unlike things– one thing is the other

(a comparison between the plan of life and a sheet)

Question 3

Extended Metaphor

Answer 3

a comparison used throughout the work

Mary is really referencing marijuana

Question 4

Implied Metaphor

Answer 4

does not directly state that one thing is another

(“Upon the Burning of Our House” implies that heaven is a beautiful house above built by the mightiest architect-God-but it is never directly stated)

Question 5

Dead Metaphor

Answer 5

a comparison has become so commonplace that it seems literal rather than figurative

(foot of a hill)
(head of a class)

Question 6

Mixed Metaphor

Answer 6

use of two or more inconsistent metaphors in one expression (makes no sense if taken literary

(the storm of protest was nipped in the butt)

Question 7

Allusion

Answer 7

a brief reference to person, event or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.

(a cartoon using a caricature of the Mona Lisa)
(a short story set in the present makes a reference to the Coliseum)

Question 8

Satire

Answer 8

Employs wit to ridicule a subject

(a cartoon in which people visiting an art museum are admiring what they think is a modern painting (a vent) while two men stand to the side, one saying “I’m not going to be the one to tell ‘em its a ventilator cover.)

Question 9

Paradox

Answer 9

something that seems self contradictory but which has valid meaning.

(In death there there is life)

Question 10

Rhyme

Answer 10

exact repetition of sounds of two or more words.

Question 11

Couplet

Answer 11

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

“The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray”

Question 12

Tone

Answer 12

authors attitude toward a subject

Question 13

Style

Answer 13

distinctive handling of language

Question 14

Conceit

Answer 14

a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two STARTLINGLY different things

comparison between cloth-making and God’s granting of graces

Question 15

Diction

Answer 15

a writers choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision.

Question 16

Iamb

Answer 16

a poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

(within this tomb a Patriot lies)

Question 17

Tall Tale

Answer 17

a humorous story that is outlandishly exaggerated

“Pecos Bill” and “Paul Bunyan”

Question 18

Heroic Couplet

Answer 18

Pair of rhymed verse lines in iambic pentameter.

“Upon what base was fixed the lathe wherein
He turned this globe and rigolled it so trim”

Question 19

Symbolism

Answer 19

Emotionally powerful symbols are used to suggest meaning and mood.