Vocab- Week 2

Question 1

A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity

Answer 1

Assonance

Question 2

A style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast-paced, more rapid prose

Answer 2

Asyndeton

Question 3

The sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or the mood of a piece of writing; the feelings the author holds towards his subject, the people in his narrative, the events, the setting or even the theme.

Answer 3

Attitude

Question 4

A narrative poem that is, or originally was, meant to be sung

Answer 4

Ballad

Question 5

A common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain that alternates four-beat and three beat lines: one and three are unrhymed iambic tetra meter, and two and four are rhymed iambic trimeter

Answer 5

Ballad stanza

Question 6

The verse form that most resembles common speech, it consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter.

Answer 6

Blank verse

Question 7

A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns due to metrical patterns

Answer 7

Caesura

Question 8

A depiction in which character’s characteristics of features are so deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd

Answer 8

Caricature

Question 9

A figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second

Answer 9

Chiasmus

Question 10

Ordinary language, the vernacular

Answer 10

Colloquial