Week 2 Terms

Question 1

Archetype

Answer 1

Patterns that recur in legends, ceremonies, and stories

Question 2

Argument

Answer 2

(1) a spoken, written or visual text that expresses a point of view; (2) the use of evidence and reason to discover some version of the truth, as distinct from persuasion, the attempt to change someone else’s point of view

Question 3

Aside

Answer 3

Short soliloquy

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

Style where conjunctions are omitted (x, y, z as opposed to x, y, and z)

Question 6

Atmosphere

Answer 6

Emotional feeling created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author’s choice of objects that are described (even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere)

Question 7

Attitude

Answer 7

Tone, voice, mood of writing

Question 8

Balance

Answer 8

A situation in which all parts of the presentation are equal, whether in sentences or paragraphs or sections of a longer work

Question 9

Bandwagon

Answer 9

See “ad populum fallacy” (appeal to the people)

Question 10

Cacophony

Answer 10

Harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage

Question 11

Canon

Answer 11

That which has been accepted as authentic

Question 12

Caricature

Answer 12

A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person’s distinctive physical features or other characteristics

Question 13

Round character

Answer 13

Character that has many traits

Question 14

Flat character

Answer 14

Character that has 1 or 2 traits

Question 15

Static character

Answer 15

Character that doesn’t change as a result of the story

Question 16

Dynamic character

Answer 16

Character that changes as a result of the story

Question 17

Direct characterization

Answer 17

The writer tells us directly what the character is like through description and dialogue

Question 18

Indirect characterization

Answer 18

The reader has to figure out what a character is like, just as we do in real life when we are getting to know someone

Question 19

Chiasmus

Answer 19

Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (not to be mistaken with antimetabole, in which identical words are repeated and inverted)

Question 20

Circular reasoning

Answer 20

Fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence

Question 21

Begging the question

Answer 21

Fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt (“begs” question whether the support itself is sound)