Week 6

Question 1

Ad hominem

Answer 1

(adj.) An argument appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect. Attacking a person’s character rather than his position.

Question 2

Black Humor

Answer 2

Use of the morbid and the absurd for darkly comic purposes – sometimes called a tragic farce.

Question 3

Caesura (or Grammatical pause)

Answer 3

A pause or break occurring in a line of verse.

Question 4

Canon

Answer 4

Those works generally considered by scholars, critics, and professors to be the most important to read and study, which collectively constitute the “masterpieces” of literature

Question 5

Denouement (day-noo-mah)

Answer 5

The final unraveling of a plot – the solution to a mystery – an explanation or outcome

Question 6

Understatement

Answer 6

A figure of speech in which the literal sense of what is said falls detectably short of the magnitude of what is being talked about.