Week 1-8

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, places, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings outside the narrative itself

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

A repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words

Question 3

Allusion

Answer 3

Figure of speech which makes brief references to a historical or literary figure,event, or object (commonly the Bible)

Question 4

Anachronism

Answer 4

Assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence

Question 5

Analogy

Answer 5

A comparison of two things that are alike in certain aspects. Often use to use something familiar to explain the unfamiliar ( _is to _) (as is to).

Question 6

Antithesis

Answer 6

A figure is speech characterized by strongly contrasting words,clauses, sentences, or ideas. The balancing of one term against another.

Question 7

Archetype

Answer 7

A detail, plot pattern or character type that occurs frequently

Question 8

Asyndeton

Answer 8

Omission of connecting words in a list (run on)

Question 9

Anaphora

Answer 9

The same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines

Question 10

Apostrophe

Answer 10

The speaker addresses a dead person or an abstraction or inanimate object in provides the speaker an opportunity to think aloud

Question 11

Verse

Answer 11

Metrical language writing without a meter, the opposite of prose

Question 12

Meter

Answer 12

The measurable repetition of unaccented and accented syllables in poetry.

Question 13

Prose

Answer 13

The ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure; not poetry

Question 14

Structure

Answer 14

The internal organization of a poem.

Question 15

Form

Answer 15

The external shape or pattern of a poem

Question 16

Blank verse

Answer 16

An unrhymed or otherwise regular verse

Question 17

Free verse

Answer 17

Non-metrical poetry that does not follow establish norms

Question 18

Characterization

Answer 18

The creation of imaginary persons by another sad they seem lifelike

Question 19

Direct characterization

Answer 19

The writer shows the reader what a character is like through his/her dialogue and/or actions or through other characters

Question 20

Colloquialism

Answer 20

Slang words lmao

Question 21

Satire

Answer 21

Mode of writing that exposes the failing of individuals institutions or societies to ridicule and scorn (sarcastic) 

Question 22

Simile

Answer 22

I figure of speech in which a similarity between two objects is directly Expressed (uses like and as)

Question 23

Understatement

Answer 23

To represent restraint to say less than is meant (intentionally) 

Question 24

Run-on line (enjambement)

Answer 24

A line that has no natural speech pause at the end, a lot of sense afloat uninterruptedly into the succeeding line 

Question 25

Stanza

Answer 25

A group of lines his metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem

Question 26

Refrain

Answer 26

I repeated word phrase a line a group of clients normally at a fix position in the poem.

Question 27

Rhyme

Answer 27

If you don’t know what this is get some help

Question 28

End rhyme

Answer 28

Rhyme at the end of a line 

Question 29

Internal rhyme

Answer 29

Rhyme with one or both of rhyme words within the same line 

Question 30

Rhyme scheme

Answer 30

A fixed pattern of rhymes

Question 31

Couplet

Answer 31

To successive lines of poetry usually of the same meter linked by rhyme 

Question 32

End stopped rhyme

Answer 32

A line that ends with a natural speech pause usually marked by punctuation

Question 33

Epigram

Answer 33

A pithy (short, witty) saying

Question 34

Epigraph

Answer 34

A quotation or motto place at the beginning of a book chapter or poem

Question 35

Epithet

Answer 35

A word that points out a characteristic of a poem or thing that is used like a nickname (like a kenning)

Question 36

Dialect

Answer 36

A variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciation. Often associated with a particular geographical region

Question 37

Dramatic irony

Answer 37

When the audience knows more about a character’s situation than the character.

Question 38

Extended metaphor

Answer 38

A metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout an entire work.

Question 39

Foil

Answer 39

A character who, through contrast, underscores the characteristics of another (sidekick)

Question 40

Genre

Answer 40

A category or literary composition

Question 41

Idiom

Answer 41

Use of words peculiar to a given language, an expression that cannot be translated literally.

Question 42

Imagery

Answer 42

The technique by which the author creates images

Question 43

Metaphor

Answer 43

An analogy that identifies one object with another

Question 44

Motif

Answer 44

Reoccurring images, words/objects/ actions etc, that unify works of literature (love, death, etc)

Question 45

Lyric poetry

Answer 45

A brief subjective poem marked by imagination, melody, and emotion. Creating a single unified event (similar to music it has a “tune” to it)

Question 46

Ode

Answer 46

A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse directed to a single purpose with one theme (usually love or romance)

Question 47

Sonnet

Answer 47

A fixed form of 14 lines, iambic pentameter, with rhyme scheme of one of two types Italian or English.

Question 48

English (Shakespearean) sonnet

Answer 48

A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg ending with a sonnet (gg) with a shift usually after line 8

Question 49

Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet

Answer 49

Octave rhyming abbaabbaa and a sestet using any arrangement of two/three additional rhymes. With a shift at line 8