Vocab list 2

Question 0

Anagram

Answer 0

a word formed from another by rearranging its letters

Angel is an anagram of glean

Question 1

Anachronism

Answer 1

an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period which it does not belong
something that is not in the correct historical time

Question 2

Ballad

Answer 2

any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody

Question 3

Epigraph

Answer 3

an inscription, especially on a building or statue

Question 4

gothic

Answer 4

Pertaining to the architectural style originating in france in the 12th century and existing in western europe through the middle of the 16 century

Question 5

Motif

Answer 5

a recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary, artistic, or musical work

Question 6

Distortion

Answer 6

drama of the absurd

Question 7

Enjambment

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the running on of the thought from one line,, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break

Question 8

Pathos

Answer 8

he quality or power in a actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms

Question 9

Vernacular

Answer 9

native or indigenous

expressed or written in the native language

Question 10

Satire

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the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule or another such technique

Question 11

Syntax

Answer 11

the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language