Vocab- Week 8

Question 1

The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts

Answer 1

Parallel structure

Question 2

A work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing content of the original

Answer 2

Parody

Question 3

A work that describes the simple life of countryfolk, usually shepherds who live a timeless painless life in a world full of beauty, music, and love

Answer 3

Pastoral

Question 4

A sentence which is not grammatically complete until the end

Answer 4

Periodic sentence

Question 5

The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author

Answer 5

Persona

Question 6

Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities

Answer 6

Personification

Question 7

A sonnet form that divides the poem into one section of eight lines and a second section of six lines, usually following the abba abba cde cde rhyme scheme through the sestets rhyme varies

Answer 7

Petrarchan sonnet

Question 8

The arrangement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of the events

Answer 8

Plot

Question 9

The main character in the work, who may or may not be heroic

Answer 9

Protagonist

Question 10

A poetic stanza of four lines

Answer 10

Quatrain