Unit 2 Set 1

Question 0

inverted word order for emphasis, rhyme, or rhythm

Answer 0

Anastrophe

Question 1

conventional character, plot, or setting—predictable

Answer 1

Stereotype

Question 2

figurative language in which a part is used for the whole or the whole is used for a part

Answer 2

Synecdoche

Question 3

the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

Answer 3

Rhythm

Question 4

the term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is.

Answer 4

Irony

Question 5

when a character says one thing but means something else.

Answer 5

Verbal Irony

Question 6

an occurrence that is different from what is expected

Answer 6

Irony of Situation

Question 7

when there is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows to be true.

Answer 7

Dramatic Irony

Question 8

a fact is expressed less emphatically than it could be

Answer 8

Understatement

Question 9

method used to describe characters by revealing physical traits and personality.

Answer 9

Characterization

Question 10

repetition of initial consonant sounds

Answer 10

Alliteration

Question 11

repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds

Answer 11

Assonance

Question 12

repetition of consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds

Answer 12

Consonance

Question 13

words whose sounds imitate the natural sounds of an object or animal

Answer 13

Onomatopoeia

Question 14

a movement or tendency in art, literature, and music reflecting the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome. It emphasizes the traditional and the universal, placing value on reason, clarity, balance, order.

Answer 14

Classicism

Question 15

a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. It essentially upholds feeling and the imagination over reason and fact. It favors the picturesque, the emotional, the exotic, and the mysterious.

Answer 15

Romanticism

Question 16

verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 16

Blank Verse

Question 17

unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern

Answer 17

Free Verse

Question 18

a break or pause in a line of poetry which contributes to the rhythm of the poem.

Answer 18

Caesura

Question 19

rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry.

Answer 19

Internal Rhyme

Question 20

a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities—has two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Answer 20

Allegory

Question 21

any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.

Answer 21

Symbol

Question 22

a word or expression that is not meant to be interpreted in a literal sense (more than 200 types).

Answer 22

Figure of Speech

Question 23

a figure of speech using exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect.

Answer 23

Hyperbole

Question 24

a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself.

Answer 24

Metonymy

Question 25

a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas

Answer 25

Oxymoron

Question 26

traditional songs, myths, legends, fables, fairy tales, proverbs, and riddles composed anonymously and either written or passed down orally

Answer 26

Folklore

Question 27

a struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.

Answer 27

Conflict

Question 28

between two persons, between a person and society, between a person and nature

Answer 28

External Conflict

Question 29

between two elements struggling for mastery within a person

Answer 29

Internal Conflict

Question 30

the representation of an inanimate object, animal, or idea as a human being by giving it human qualities

Answer 30

Personification