Vocabulary

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables, as in “ lively lads and lasses.”

Question 3

Antagonist

Answer 3

opponent of protagonist or adversary of hero.

Question 4

Consonance

Answer 4

the recurrence of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables as in “ my love doth live”

Question 5

Ballad

Answer 5

A short simple narrative song

Question 6

Caesuras

Answer 6

a break or a pause between words within a metrical foot.

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

the recurrence of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables as in “ her fears and tears.”

Question 8

Dialect

Answer 8

the manner of speech characteristic of a certain area or class.

Question 9

Elegy

Answer 9

originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.

Question 10

End Rhyme

Answer 10

refers to rhymes at the end of lines.

Question 11

Fable

Answer 11

a brief tale with a moral point and generally with non human characters.

Question 12

Free verse

Answer 12

poetry without rhyme or meter.

Question 13

Genre

Answer 13

standard or category of literature

Question 14

Hyperbole

Answer 14

exaggeration : implies less than what is said.

Question 15

Imperfect rhyme

Answer 15

includes partial rhyme or eye rhyme.

Question 16

Metaphor

Answer 16

the expression of one thing in terms of another.

Question 17

Meter

Answer 17

the regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

Question 18

Occasional verse

Answer 18

poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally public and contemporary.

Question 19

Onomatopoeia

Answer 19

the use of words that sound like what they mean eg . Boom, hiss, moan, murmur.

Question 20

Paradox

Answer 20

a seeming contradiction eg. “ death, thou shalt die”

Question 21

Partial or slant rhyme

Answer 21

shows agreement in terminal consonant sounds but disagreement in the preceding vowel sounds.

Question 22

Perfect rhyme

Answer 22

agreement of sounds from the last stressed sound onwards with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.

Question 23

Personification

Answer 23

giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person.

Question 24

Plot

Answer 24

a connected series of incidents.

Question 25

Point of view

Answer 25

narrative perspective. The way a story is told.

Question 26

Protagonist

Answer 26

the chief or main character.

Question 27

Pun

Answer 27

the creation of a double meaning by the use of homonyms.

Question 28

Romanticism

Answer 28

European and American reaction to the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism.

Question 29

Satire

Answer 29

corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule.

Question 30

Setting

Answer 30

time and place in which a narrative takes place.

Question 31

Simile

Answer 31

a stated comparison of 2 things usually a linking word or phrase eg. Like, as, if.

Question 32

Sonnet

Answer 32

a lyre poem of 14 iambic pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to 1 of 2 patterns.

Question 33

Stanza

Answer 33

a group of lines constituting a section of a poem and usually distinguished in print by spacing.

Question 34

Stream of consciousness

Answer 34

random sequence of thoughts and sensations within the mind of the central character

Question 35

Style

Answer 35

the manner of expression in prose or verse, in written or oral discourse.

Question 36

Suspense

Answer 36

anticipation created in the reader because of authors withholding information about the nature or outcome of a situation while raising the readers curiosity or anxiety

Question 37

Symbol

Answer 37

an object that stands for something else as well as itself.

Question 38

Theme

Answer 38

a recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.

Question 39

Tone

Answer 39

the attitude of a work towards its subject.

Question 40

Verbal Irony

Answer 40

A contrast exists between the literal and impied levels of meaning of an expression or statement