American Literature

Question 1

Local Color

Answer 1

Distinctive, sometimes pictures, characteristics or peculiarities of a place or period as represented in literature or drama or as observed in reality.

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

A comparison in which human qualities are given to it in an inanimate object or an animal.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of vowels sounds.

Question 4

Symbol

Answer 4

Something which has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself.

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

Words addressed to an inanimate object as if it were alive or to an absent person as if he were present.

Question 6

Simile

Answer 6

An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used.

Question 7

Imagery

Answer 7

The use of words that appeal to our senses(sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste).

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

The repetition of final consonant sounds

Question 9

Approximate Rhyme

Answer 9

Sound similarities that occur between words which are not true rhymes.

Question 10

Refrain

Answer 10

A phrase or sentence, which is repeated at intervals, usually at the end of a stanza.

Question 11

Rhyme

Answer 11

The correspondence of sounds.

Question 12

Dialect

Answer 12

A variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially

Question 13

Alliteration

Answer 13

An approximate rhyme in which beginning constant sounds are the same.

Question 14

Metaphor

Answer 14

An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.

Question 15

End Rhyme

Answer 15

The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

Uses words which sound like what they mean(growl, hiss, pop).

Question 17

Dialogue

Answer 17

Conversation between two or more persons.

Question 18

Free verse

Answer 18

Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.

Question 19

Tone

Answer 19

The writers or speaker’s attitude toward his subject. The Tone of a work may be formal, informal, ironic, sarcastic, somber, playful, solemn, light, condescending, intimate, or detached.

Question 20

Allusion

Answer 20

A reference to mythology, history, literature, or the Bible.

Question 21

Feminine rhyme

Answer 21

Rhyme involving two or more syllables.

Question 22

Cacography

Answer 22

Bad handwriting or spelling.

Question 23

Psuedonym

Answer 23

A fictitious name used especially by an author to conceal their Identity; Pen name.

Question 24

Internal Rhyme

Answer 24

Rhyme that occurs within the line.

Question 25

Plot

Answer 25

Main events of a play, novel, movie.

Question 26

Satire

Answer 26

The use of Irony, sarcasm, ridicule or the like, to expose, denounce, or deride the folly or corruption of institutions, people, or social structures.

Question 27

Masculine Rhyme

Answer 27

Rhyme involving only one syllable.