Vocab 1.3 (literary terms)

Question 1

allusion

Answer 1

a reference to another work that the author expects the reader is familiar with

Question 2

anaphora

Answer 2

repetition of a word or sequence of words at the beginning of clauses, phrases, or sentences

Question 3

apostrophe

Answer 3

the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object

Question 4

archetypes

Answer 4

an idea, symbol, pattern, or character type that appears over and over in a story (universal across all cultures)

Question 5

bildungsroman

Answer 5

“story of education”

story that follow the moral and psychological growth of the protagonist

Question 6

denouement

Answer 6

conclusion after climax in which the plot is unraveled and conflicts are resolved

Question 7

dramatic irony

Answer 7

the audience knows more than the character

Question 8

epistolary

Answer 8

works of fiction written in the form of letters or documents

Question 9

flashback

Answer 9

a scene that takes the story back in time from the current point

Question 10

foreshadowing

Answer 10

gives an indication or hint of what is coming later in the story

Question 11

motif

Answer 11

a repeated pattern (image, word, sound, symbol)

Question 11

narrative frame

Answer 11

a story within a story

Question 12

overstatement

Answer 12

use of language to exaggerate intended meaning (hyperbole)

Question 13

paradox

Answer 13

a statement that contradicts itself

Question 14

romanticism

Answer 14

focus on individuality and appreciation of nature

Question 15

understatement

Answer 15

a quality, object, emotion, or situation is downplayed as being less than what is true to the situation

Question 16

unreliable narrator

Answer 16

a narrator that is not trustworthy and deceptive (typically first person)

Question 16

verbal irony

Answer 16

a speakers words do not match their true meaning