Unit 2 Set 1 Definitions

Question 1

Conventional character, plot, or setting—predictable

Answer 1

stereotype

Question 2

Inverted word order for emphasis, rhyme, or rhythm

Answer 2

anastrophe

Question 3

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

Answer 3

synecdoche

Question 4

The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

Answer 4

rhythm

Question 5

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

Answer 5

irony

Question 6

When a character says one thing but means something else

Answer 6

verbal irony

Question 7

An occurrence that is different from what is expected

Answer 7

irony of situation

Question 8

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

Answer 8

dramatic irony

Question 9

A fact is expressed less emphatically than it could be

Answer 9

understatement

Question 10

Method used to describe characters by revealing physical traits and personality

Answer 10

characterization

Question 11

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Answer 11

alliteration

Question 12

Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds

Answer 12

assonance

Question 13

Repetition of consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds

Answer 13

consonance

Question 14

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

Answer 14

onomatopoeia

Question 15

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 15

classicism

Question 16

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 16

romanticism

Question 17

Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 17

blank verse

Question 18

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

Answer 18

free verse

Question 19

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

Answer 19

caesura

Question 20

Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry

Answer 20

internal rhyme

Question 21

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 21

allegory

Question 22

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 22

symbol

Question 23

A word or expression that is not meant to be interpreted in a literal sense

Answer 23

figures of speech

Question 24

A figure of speech using exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect

Answer 24

hyperbole

Question 25

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

Answer 25

metonymy

Question 26

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas

Answer 26

oxymoron

Question 27

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

Answer 27

folklore

Question 28

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

Answer 28

conflict

Question 29

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

Answer 29

external conflict

Question 30

Between two elements struggling for mastery within a person

Answer 30

internal conflict

Question 31

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

Answer 31

personification