Words To Know

Question 1

Define “allegory”?

Answer 1

Allegory is a story, picture or poem with a hidden meaning that can also be a moral.

Question 2

Define “alliteration”? Give an example.

Answer 2

Alliteration is the repeating of the beginning letter or sound in a word. An example could be “Professor Goodwin granted me a good grade in Geography”.

Question 3

Define “allusion”?

Answer 3

Allusion is an indirect reference to something else, or an not-so-obvious expression to make you think of something else.

Question 4

Define “analogy”?

Answer 4

Analogy is a comparison between two things made in order to explain or clarify.

Question 5

Define “Anti-Climax”?

Answer 5

An Anti-Climax is when a story is very exciting and intriguing, but has a very disappointing ending.

Question 6

What is iambic pentameter? Use an example and indicate how it is properly said/written.

Answer 6

Iambic pentameter is a rhythm used in poetry that includes 5 groups of unstressed and stressed syllables.
An example could include, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”.

Question 7

Define “antithesis”?

Answer 7

A person/thing that is a direct opposite of another usually in the form of a written poetry line.

Question 8

Define “anecdotal evidence”?

Answer 8

Evidence that is not scientific, as it is one person’s own experience.

Question 9

Define “aside”?

Answer 9

When a character says something only the audience can hear, similar to a monologue but shorter.

Question 10

Define “assonance?”

Answer 10

Words in a sentence with repeated vowel sounds. Example: At the alarming sound, the hound pounds at the brown door. (The repeated vowel sound is “OW”)

Question 11

Define “ballad stanza”?

Answer 11

A stanza in iambic pentameter that is in a ballad.

Question 12

Define “cacophony”?

Answer 12

An unpleasant sound.

Question 13

What is character foil?

Answer 13

A character who contrasts another character is order to create an effect and to be able to notice both characters traits.

Question 14

Define “colloquialism”?

Answer 14

Colloquialism is the use of modern words and language and does not come across as LITERAL or FORMAL.

Question 15

What is comic relief?

Answer 15

Comic relief is when a play/story/poem has a serious or dramatic part followed by a comedic part to try to revoke feelings of sadness in the reader. TLDR: To relieve the reader of sad feelings.

Question 16

Define “consonance”?

Answer 16

The repetition of similar sounds in close proximity. Harder to identify then assonance. For example: “blooded ruin about the glade in a frail agony of grace she trailed her rags” indicates a long A sound.

Question 17

Define “denotation”?

Answer 17

The literal definition of a word.

Question 18

Define “diction”?

Answer 18

Diction is the choice of words and phrases used in speech or writing. I.e: For my romantic poem, my diction consisted of flowing, soft and gentle words.

Question 19

What is a didactic (novel)?

Answer 19

A didactic is used to teach morals within a (novel) or other kinds of writing/speech. Basically is just the TYPE of (novel/poem/speech) that includes a positive moral.

Question 20

What is a direct presentation?
What is an indirect presentation?
Show examples of both.

Answer 20

Direct presentation: A character is described out loud by the other, main character or other characters.
Example: “Emily had long brown and brown eyes”.

Indirect presentation: A character is not described but a reader can be made aware of what the character looks/is like by the way the author writes the book.
Example: “Emily pushed her long brown hair out of her face. She rubbed her tired hazel-coloured eyes”.

Question 21

Define “dissonance”?

Answer 21

A lack of musical harmony, a bad sound.

Question 22

Define “epigram”?

Answer 22

An epigram is a short satirical poem that includes some sort of genius or witty ending.

Question 23

Define “epitaph”?

Answer 23

An epitaph is a phrase that is written on tombstones to commemorate the dead.

Question 24

What is euphony? What is it’s opposite?

Answer 24

Euphony is a pleasant sound. The opposite of euphony is cacophony; an unpleasant sound.

Question 25

What is an expository essay? How do you write one?

Answer 25

An expository essay is an essay in which a student is expected to analyze, examine and come to conclusions about a certain topic. An expository can be written in a variety of way. Most successful expository essays rebuttal or agree with the essay with specific reasoning and evidence.

Question 26

What is an extended metaphor? How does it differ from a normal metaphor?

Answer 26

An extended metaphor is a single metaphor used multiple times. A normal metaphor is just a randomly used metaphor and isn’t repeated.

Example of extended: School was hell for me. I walked past demons everyday. The high ruling Devil, Mrs.Johnson, only made purgatory worse.

Example of normal: The clouds were mashed potatoes.

Question 27

What is falling action?

Answer 27

Falling action is action that occurs right after the climax and comes before the very end of a story/play.

Question 28

What is a farce?

Answer 28

A farce is similar to slapstick comedy, which often includes crude characterization and often uses buffoonery and horseplay.

Question 29

What is a frame story? What is an example?

Answer 29

A frame story is a story that is within a story.
For example, in the story, “The Kite Runner”, we often see the main character reading stories to his friend who can’t read.

Question 30

What is an idiom? Give an example.

Answer 30

An idiom is an unusual or outrageous expression. An example could be “It’s raining cats and dogs”.

Question 31

What is melodrama?

Answer 31

Melodrama is a form of writing/speech that is dramatic yet has exciting elements that appeal to the audience. The difference between that and just plain “drama” is that melodrama has exciting parts.

Question 32

Describe objective (in the form of language tone)?

Answer 32

Something written in objective language form is an unbiased, unemotional and factual piece of writing.

Question 33

What is a paradox?

Answer 33

A paradox is something that contradicts itself.

An example could include someone who says, “I always lie”. Are they lying?

Question 34

What is parallelism?

Answer 34

Parallelism in poetry/prose is successful structure, sound or metre that is parallel.

Question 35

What is a passive voice?

Answer 35

The opposite of an active voice (The boy threw the ball)… for a passive voice you would say “The ball was thrown by the boy. “

Question 36

What is pathos?

Answer 36

Pathos is literature that is written to evoke sadness.

Question 37

What is a stanza?

Answer 37

A stanza is a group of lines that form a basic metrical unit in a poem.

Question 38

Define a stream of consciousness?

Answer 38

A stream of consciousness is the same as an interior monologue.