Literary Process

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

use the same consonant at the beginning of each word

Question 2

assonance

Answer 2

repetition of similar vocals in successive words

Question 3

allusion

Answer 3

passing reference or indirect mention

Question 4

apostrophe

Answer 4

an address to an absent or imaginary person

Question 5

caesura

Answer 5

a break or pause in the middle of a verse

Question 6

consonance

Answer 6

repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words

Question 7

couplet

Answer 7

a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse

Question 8

enjambment

Answer 8

continuation from one line of verse into the next line

Question 9

hyperbole

Answer 9

extravagant exaggeration

Question 10

internal rhyme

Answer 10

rhyme between words in the same line

Question 11

litotes

Answer 11

understatement for rhetorical effect -> figure rhétorique et d’atténuation qui consiste à dire moins pour en dire davantage

Question 12

metaphor

Answer 12

a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity

Question 13

octave

Answer 13

a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse

Question 14

onomatopoeia

Answer 14

using word that imitate the sound they denote

Question 15

paradox

Answer 15

a statement that contradicts itself

Question 16

personification

Answer 16

attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

Question 17

anapest

Answer 17

a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables

Question 18

dactyl

Answer 18

a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

Question 19

spondee

Answer 19

metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables

Question 20

trochee

Answer 20

metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables

Question 21

iamb

Answer 21

metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables

Question 22

stressed syllable

Answer 22

syllable that is pronounced slightly louder with a slightly higher pitch

Question 23

unstressed syllables

Answer 23

syllable that isn’t as loud as the stressed syllable

Question 24

sestet

Answer 24

a group of six lines verse

Question 25

simile

Answer 25

figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things (it was like , she looks like etc)

Question 26

synaesthesia

Answer 26

mixing of senses (seeing colour when listening to music)

Question 27

a foot

Answer 27

combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 28

anthithesis

Answer 28

emploi de deux mots de sens contraire pour souligner une opposition

Question 29

accumulation

Answer 29

enumeration of words from the same nature, separated by a coma

Question 30

repetition

Answer 30

insist on a feeling

Question 31

graduation

Answer 31

accumulation jusqu'a exagération

Question 32

anaphora

Answer 32

repetion of a word in the beginning of sentences

Question 33

aphorism

Answer 33

formule résumant un point de science, de morale

Question 34

archetype

Answer 34

ensemble de mythes ayant de leur origine dans une vision collective

Question 35

aside

Answer 35

aparté , what an actor says for him/herself

Question 36

allegory

Answer 36

a story, pictures, with different levels of reading (literal and symbolic)

Question 37

analogy

Answer 37

comparison of two different things

Question 38

blank verse

Answer 38

poetry that does not rhyme

Question 39

foreshadowing

Answer 39

literacy device by Wich an author hints what is to come

Question 40

mise en abyme

Answer 40

terme très imagé. il faut imaginer se tenir entre deux miroir, le résultat de la reflection est infinie.