Vocab Quiz- Literary Terms 2

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

Types or classes of literature, marked by distinctive style, form, content

Question 2

Gothic novel

Answer 2

Type of prose fiction inaugurated by Horace Walpole’s “the castle of otranto “ which flourished in the early 19th century. Features include foreign or gloomy settings, a vulnerable heroine, w cruel villain, macabre or violent incidents and supernatural Elements

Question 3

Imagery

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Concrete, sensory details which contribute to themes/ideas of a work; types include visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, organic, kinesthetic

Question 4

Irony

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Situation or statement where truth is the opposite of appearance

Question 5

Local color

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Details of setting, dialect, customs, dress, and ways of thinking which are distinctive of a particular region

Question 6

Magical realism

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Prose that weaves together realism and fantastic, dreamlike elements as well as material from myth and fairytale

Question 7

Metafiction

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A literary device used to draw attention to a work’s status as an artifact which poses questions about the relationship of fiction and reality

Question 8

Metaphor/simile

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Figure of speech in which word or phrases that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison; a simile makes the comparison using “like” or “as”.

Question 9

Motif

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Conspicuous element, such as a type of event, device, reference or formula, which occurs frequently in a work

Question 10

Narrative

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Story involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do; includes short story and novel in prose fiction

Question 11

Narrator

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One who tells the story, not usually the same person as the author; participant- participates in the action of story, observer- indirectly involved, non participant- not involved at all, unreliable- one whose perceptions do not coincide with those implied by the author, which he/she expects the reader to share; naive- one who tells the story without knowing what will happen next

Question 12

Novel

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Extended works of prose fiction; types include epistolary, novel of manners, gothic historical, science fiction…

Question 13

Paradox

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Statement which seems on its face to be logically contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to be interpretable In a way that makes sense

Question 14

Parallelism

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Similar word order or structure

Question 15

Parody

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humorous imitation of a more serious work

Question 16

Personification

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Endowing non-human objects or creatures with human characteristics

Question 17

Plot

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Sequence of events or actions in narrative ; ordered to achieve particular artistic or emotional effects; a subplot is a second story introduced into main plot which broadens audiences perspective on main plot

Question 18

Point of view

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Signifies a way a story is told. Third person - someone outside the story. Omniscient- one who knows everything that is and going to happen. Objective- describes only what is seen (fly on the wall). Limited- knows only what is seen by a single character. First person- limits narrative to one person in the “I” voice

Question 19

Resolution

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Sorting out or unraveling of a Plot at the end of a drama

Question 20

Rising action

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Set of conflicts and crises that continue that part of a plays plot leading up to the climax

Question 21

Satire

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Literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking attitude of amusement, contempt, scorn; often proposes a corrective for human vice and folly

Question 22

Setting

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Place and time for a literary work

Question 23

Stream of consciousness

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Narrative method that represents unbroken flow of perceptions, memories, thoughts and feelings in a characters or narrators mind

Question 24

Symbol

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An object which is something in itself yet is used to represent something else as well

Question 25

Syntax

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Manner in which words are arranged into sentences; word order

Question 26

Theme

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Main ideas or concepts of literary work

Question 27

Tone

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Attitude of the writer, usually implied, toward subject and audience

Question 28

Romanticism

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Includes fascination with beauty, non-conformity, corruption of abusive systems, individual versus society, the power of nature, reaction against age of Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.

Question 29

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Is Mary Shelley’s mother who fought for equal rights Mary Shelley never knew her and purposely made the women in her book have domestic roles bc of it

Question 30

William Godwin

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Was Wollstonecraft’s husband who continued his wife’s feminist works and wrote about her after her death; she is characterized as a fallen woman

Question 31

George Gordon/ Lord Bryon

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Wrote “darkness” at the same time Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Both wanted to write ghost stories, and Shelleys was more famous.

Question 32

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Was Mary’s husband who helped her wrote Frankenstein bc he was a romantic poet

Question 33

Myth of Prometheus

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Prometheus stole from the gods and was punished while DR Frankenstein received a similar inner torture by obsessing over power and lightning and committing an act Known to only be done by gods, so it was a form of karma

Question 34

Faust

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Similar to how Frankenstein starved himself and drained himself of all energy for his creation, Faust gave his soul to the devil for intellect

Question 35

Pygmalion

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Created a statue so beautiful he considered himself God and married it. Similarly Frankenstein was so caught up in the beauty of creating such a breakthrough that he too considered himself a God, before running away

Question 36

The golem

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Was a creature constructed from nature or Clay similar to the monster. He too went on a violent rampage because he was deprived of love

Question 37

Paradise lost

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Victor who plays God resembles Saran from Paradise lost in which Saran is punished for his thirst for knowledge. Romantics such as Gordon Byron (Mary’s friend) and Percy Shelley (Mary’s husband) believe Satan to be a victim of tyranny. Monster compares himself with Satan and Adam

Question 38

Plutarch’s Lives

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Where Frankenstein learns abut high thoughts and discovers the idea of human society. It’s where he finds out about the vicious behavior of some men in public and comes to admire virtuous men and peaceful lawmakers

Question 39

Volleys “Ruins of Empire”

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Learns about the outside world and religions and the existence of war and murder. Humans are both magnificent and cruel

Question 40

Goethe “the Sorrows of young Werther “

Answer 40

It’s domestic settings appeal to the monsters experience with the Lacy family. He relates to the characters heights of happiness and d Otha of despair. Prompts him to ask questions about his own identity and destiny

Question 41

Mont Blanc and Chamonix

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Relate back to the sublime in romanticism and are associated with Nature and home for victor