Vocab words

Question 1

Occasional Poems

Answer 1

poetry written to commemorate a particular event or public figure

Question 2

Dream Allegory

Answer 2

A Popular Medieval narrative where the narrator falls asleep and is led through a dream by a guide (Pilgrim’s Progress)

Question 3

Didactic Literature

Answer 3

Intended to teach or convey moral instruction

Question 4

Aptronym

Answer 4

When a name aptly fits a character

Question 5

Satire

Answer 5

holding a subject to ridicule or scorn (i.e. laughter as a weapon)

Question 6

Horatian Satire

Answer 6

indulgent witty tone ridicules absurdities or follies to produce humor

Question 7

Juvenalian Satire

Answer 7

Attacks vice and error with contempt or moral indignation

Question 8

Parody

Answer 8

Ridiculous imitation

Question 9

Irony

Answer 9

inconsistency between statement and context

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

identification of one thing with another (not literal)

Question 11

Blank Verse

Answer 11

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 12

Periphrasis

Answer 12

roundabout elaborate way of saying something

Question 13

Georgic

Answer 13

Countryside as a place of productive labor

Question 14

Britannia

Answer 14

national personification of Britain as a female warrior