Vocabulary

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

Example: to make a man to meet the moral need.

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge.
Example: Have you read “The Rise of the Coloured Empire” by this man Goddard? 

Question 3

Antagonist

Answer 3

The character who opposes the interest of the protagonist.

Example: The The lord of the rings, Tolkien creates Lord Sauron as the antagonist to Frodo.

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

The direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she/it is able to reply.
Example: O’ Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllabus of two or more adjacent words.
Example: Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies.

Question 6

Connotation

Answer 6

The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to it’s directly expressed “dictionary meaning”
Example: Home literally means one’s house, but implies feelings of family and security.

Question 7

Denotation

Answer 7

The “dictionary definition” of a word, in contrast to the connotation, or implied meaning.
Example: A house is literally a dwelling usually for a family. 

Question 8

Diction

Answer 8

Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, and denotative/connotative value.
Example: using “issue” instead of “problem”

Question 9

Dynamic Character

Answer 9

One who changes during the course of narrative.

Example Romeo is a dynamic character.

Question 10

Euphemism

Answer 10

An indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact.
Example: “Passed away” instead of “died” 

Question 11

Flat Character

Answer 11

A figure readily identifiable by memorable traits but not fully developed. 
Example: The evil stepmother in Cinderella

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

An exaggeration for affect

Example: I told you a billion times not to exaggerate 

Question 13

Irony

Answer 13

1. Verbal Irony: the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says
   Example: I can’t wait to read the seven hundred page report
2. Situational Irony: discrepancy between what is expected to happen what actually happens.
   Example: John buys a gun for protection, but someone uses that same gun to hurt him.
3. Dramatic Irony: When the audience is aware of something the characters are not.
   Example: Romeo and Juliet try to be together while the audience knows they are doomed

Question 14

Metaphor

Answer 14

An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as

Example: No man is an island 

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings

Example: O miserable abundance! O beggarly riches! 

Question 16

Parallelism

Answer 16

A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph.
Example: The dog ran, stumbled, and fell. 

Question 17

Protagonist

Answer 17

The major character in a piece of literature; the figure and the narrative who’s interest the reader is most concerned about in sympathetic toward.
Example: Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath 

Question 18

Simile

Answer 18

A type of comparison that uses the word like or as 

Example: Love is like a rose

Question 19

Static Character

Answer 19

A figure who remains the same from the beginning to the end of a narrative.
Example: Nick Caraway is essentially a static character in The Great Gatsby

Question 20

Symbol

Answer 20

In a text, an element that stands for more than itself and, therefore, helps to convey a theme to the text
Example: purple symbolizes royalty

Question 21

Theme

Answer 21

The message conveyed by a Literary Work

Example: “The American dream is in decline“ is a theme of The Great Gatsby

Question 22

Unreliable Narrator

Answer 22

An untrustworthy or naïve commentator on events and characters in a story.
Example: The people at Gatsbys parties like Jordan who spread rumors about Gatsby’s past. 

Question 23

Voice

Answer 23

The texturel features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writers or speakers persona. 
Example: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s voice is mysterious.

Question 24

Elegy

Answer 24

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Question 25

Ode

Answer 25

A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style and manor.

Question 26

Sonnet

Answer 26

A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically following iambic pentameter. 

Question 27

Villanelle

Answer 27

A nineteen line poem with two rhymes throughout. The first and third lines repeat throughout the poem. 

Question 28

Ballad

Answer 28

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. 

Question 29

Dramatic Monologue

Answer 29

A poem in the form of a speech or narrative in which the speaker reveals their character while describing a situation or series of events. 

Question 30

Epic

Answer 30

A long poem narrating the deeds in adventures of heroic or legendary figures

Question 31

Satire

Answer 31

The use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. Can be prose or poetry.