world lit finals literary terms

Question 1

ALLITERATION

Answer 1

Repeated consonant sounds

Question 2

ASIDE

Answer 2

Actor is not alone on stage and addresses the audience

Question 3

COMEDY

Answer 3

the style or genre represented by comedy films, plays, and broadcast programs

Question 4

COMIC RELIEF

Answer 4

an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action

Question 5

CONFLICT

Answer 5

a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one, OR be incompatible or
at variance; clash

Question 6

CONNOTATION

Answer 6

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
(deeper than the direct/definition meaning)

Question 7

COUPLET

Answer 7

little rhyme in poetry containing 2 lines with the same idea

ex: today is a good day I can go outside and play

Question 8

DENOTATION

Answer 8

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the
word suggests (dictionary definition)

Question 9

DUMB SHOW

Answer 9

gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech, mime

Question 10

ELIZABETHAN

Answer 10

relating to or characteristic of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, OR a person, especially a writer, of the time of Queen Elizabeth I

Question 11

EPIC

Answer 11

a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation

Question 12

EPILOGUE

Answer 12

a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened

Question 13

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Answer 13

departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical

Question 14

FOOT

Answer 14

a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Question 15

GLOBE THEATER

Answer 15

a theater in London associated with William Shakespeare

Question 16

GREEK HOSPITALITY

Answer 16

guest-friendship’ or ‘ritualized friendship’. It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity

Question 17

GROUNDLINGS

Answer 17

lower class people during Shakespearean days that did not get a cushion and stood on thee ground floor of the theater

Question 18

HEROIC EPITHET

Answer 18

Epithets serve as a kind of shorthand to immediately identify the hero or thing being described (son of aegeus)

Question 19

HEROIC SIMILE

Answer 19

a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that are many lines in length

Question 20

HEROISM/HEROIC JOURNEY

Answer 20

the call to adventure, refusal of the call, meeting the mentor, crossing the threshold, tests, allies, and enemies, the approach, the ordeal, the reward, the road back, the resurrection, the return, and the freedom to live

Question 21

HIGH/LOW COMEDY

Answer 21

High humor tends to be verbal while low humor is focused on physicality

Question 22

IAMB

Answer 22

a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

Question 23

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

Answer 23

a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.

Question 24

IN MEDIA RES

Answer 24

Technical term for the epic convention of beginning “in the middle of things,”
rather than at the very start of the story

Question 25

METAPHOR

Answer 25

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Question 26

MONOLOGUE

Answer 26

a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program

Question 27

PARAPHRASE

Answer 27

rendering of the same text in different words without losing the meaning of the text itself

Question 28

PROLOGUE

Answer 28

a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work

Question 29

SIMILE

Answer 29

a comparison between two things, usually using the words ‘like’ and ‘as’

Question 30

SOLILOQUY

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an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

Question 31

SONNET

Answer 31

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line

Question 32

SYMBOL

Answer 32

a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or
process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in
musical notation

Question 33

TRAGEDY

Answer 33

a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character

Question 34

VERSE

Answer 34

Rhyming, poetry

Question 35

BLANK VERSE

Answer 35

Non Rhyming poetry