Week 4 Lit Terms

Question 1

Fable

Answer 1

a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a “moral”), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

Question 2

Faulty parallelism

Question 3

Flashback

Answer 3

An action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding.

Question 4

Foil

Answer 4

a character that contrasts second character that highlights certain qualities of that first character

Question 5

Foreshadowing

Answer 5

aka “adumbrating”

is a literary device in which an author hints certain plot developments that perhaps will come to be later in the story

Question 6

Hyperbaton

Answer 6

Hyperbaton is a figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect. This kind of unnatural or rhetorical separation is possible to a much greater degree in highly inflected languages, where sentence meaning does not depend closely on word order. In Latin and Ancient Greek, the effect of hyperbaton is usually to emphasize the first word. It has been called “perhaps the most distinctively alien feature of Latin word order

Synonym of Anastrophe

Ex

One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day.

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally

Question 8

Imagery

Answer 8

in a literary text, occurs when an author uses an object that is not really there, in order to create a comparison between one that is, usually evoking a more meaningful visual experience for the reader.[1] It is useful as it allows an author to add depth and understanding to his work, like a sculptor adding layer and layer to his statue, building it up into a beautiful work of art, and so it should usually have more than one description

Question 9

Internal Rhyme

Question 10

Inversion

Answer 10

n is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance, that is, they invert. The most frequent type of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion, where an auxiliary verb changes places with its subject; this often occurs in questions, such as Are you coming?, where the subject you is switched with the auxiliary are.