Words Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
1
Q

Pause in line of verse

A

Caesura

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Line lengths and rhyme irregular

A

Free verse

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Appearance of word and phrase at the end of one clause then at beginning of another

A

Anadiplosis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Flashback

A

Analepsis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Flash forward

A

Prolepsis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Repetition of word at beginning of successive lines

A

Anaphora

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Novel that follows protagonist from childhood to adulthood through troubled quest of identity

A

Bildungsroman

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Speech as a character would say it

A

Free indirect style

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Exaggeration in speech that is not meant literally

A

Hyperbole

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Where a word is replaced by something closely associated with it (bottle for alcohol)

A

Metonymy

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Short saying or statement expressed memorably by considering much wisdom into few words

A

Aphorism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Pretentiously inflated or pompous language

A

Fustian

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Literary genre- life as it was

A

Realism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Literary genre- character victim of social force

A

Naturalism

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Style- personification and imagery

A

Poetic

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Style- moralistic tone

A

Essayist

17
Q

Style- mocks values of society

A

Satirist

18
Q

Dislikes, despises and strongly prejudices against women

A

Misogynistic

19
Q

Another word for sympathy

A

Pathos

20
Q

Uncaring

A

Callous

21
Q

Novels that attempt to unsettle the reader or make them examine the meaning

A

Postmodern

22
Q

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A

Blank verse