Lit Terms

Question 1

Climax

Answer 1

Most intense part of story

Question 2

Denotation

Answer 2

Dictionary definition

Question 3

Character

Answer 3

Person in story

Question 4

Couplet

Answer 4

2 lines of poetry that rhyme

Question 5

Carpe diem

Answer 5

seize the day, theme of lots of literature

Question 6

Connotation

Answer 6

Feeling a word invokes

Question 7

Caesura

Answer 7

Natural break in poetry (To be-Or not to be)

Question 8

Conflict

Answer 8

Struggle between opposing forces

Question 9

Catharsis

Answer 9

Tragedy, cleansing of emotions, radical change/reinvention

Question 10

Denouement

Answer 10

Outcome/solution of story

Question 11

Chiasms

Answer 11

Parts of a sentence are reversed (we forget what we want to remember and remember what we want to forget)

Question 12

Conceit

Answer 12

Surprising analogy (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?)

Question 13

Characterization

Answer 13

Writer reveals personality of character (She is kind/She performed a kind act)

Question 14

Dialogue

Answer 14

Conversation between characters

Question 15

Cliche

Answer 15

Overused expression (diamond in the rough)

Question 16

Allegory

Answer 16

Story interpreted to reveal a moral/political meaning (Tortoise and the Hare)

Question 17

Cacophony

Answer 17

Harsh/discordant mixture of sound (cold chasm is deep and dry)

Question 18

Blank Verse

Answer 18

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 19

Ballad

Answer 19

Poem/song narrating a story

Question 20

Atmosphere

Answer 20

Feeling created by environment

Question 21

Asyndeton

Answer 21

Taking out a conjunction (dog bound, lept, raced through town)

Question 22

Assonance

Answer 22

Repetition of vowel sounds (claps hands and stamps feet)

Question 23

Aside

Answer 23

Spoken by actor, intended for audience

Question 24

Apostrophe

Answer 24

Addressing the dead/not human (O happy dagger!)

Question 25

Antagonist

Answer 25

At conflict with main character (Chase Andrews)

Question 26

Anaphora

Answer 26

Repetition of word/phrase to create an effect (We shall fight)

Question 27

Analogy

Answer 27

Comparison of 2 things, similar in some way (Juliet is a rose)

Question 28

Archetype

Answer 28

An idea/character/circumstance common in literature, universal theme (The Hero, Call to Adventure)

Question 29

Allusion

Answer 29

Reference to another literature/person/event

Question 30

Alliteration

Answer 30

Repeats first consonant letters

Question 31

Free Verse

Answer 31

Poetry with no rhyme or meter (blank verse has meter)

Question 32

Euphemism

Answer 32

A substitute word that's less harsh (downsize instead of cut)

Question 33

Diction

Answer 33

Author's word choice

Question 34

Foot

Answer 34

A group of syllables in poetry with one accented and the other not (seen from above)

Question 35

Enjambment

Answer 35

A continuation of a sentence from one line of poetry to the next

Question 36

Euphony

Answer 36

Pleasing combination of words (leisure, nanny, eerie)

Question 37

Dramatic Monologue

Answer 37

Poem in which the speaker carries on alone

Question 38

Flashback

Answer 38

An interruption in the narrative to show previous events

Question 39

Exposition

Answer 39

Opening scene in which the characters/setting/theme can be introduced

Question 40

Elegy

Answer 40

Mourning poem of lament

Question 41

Foreshadowing

Answer 41

A hint of what's to come

Question 42

Hamartia

Answer 42

A tragic flaw that comes from one's strengths

Question 43

Dramatic Irony

Answer 43

Reader/audience know something the character doesn't

Question 44

Epistrophe

Answer 44

Repitition of concluding words/word endings (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil)

Question 45

Epiphany

Answer 45

Deep realization

Question 46

Juxtaposition

Answer 46

Two opposites placed together (it was the best of times it was the worst of times)

Question 47

Imagery

Answer 47

Visually descriptive/figurative language

Question 48

Hyperbole

Answer 48

An extreme exaggeration

Question 48

Hyperbole

Answer 48

An extreme exaggeration

Question 49

Motif

Answer 49

A repeated theme/phrase

Question 50

Metonymy

Answer 50

Replacing a word with one that means something similar (calling a car "wheels")

Question 51

Narrator

Answer 51

Person telling the story

Question 52

Onomatopoeia

Answer 52

A word that sounds like a noise

Question 53

Litotes

Answer 53

Negating a positive (not bad, you're not wrong)