Literature Final

Question 1

A reference within a work to something else, usually history or another artistic work

Answer 1

Allusion

Question 2

A force or character who struggles against the protagonist

Answer 2

Antagonist

Question 3

A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting means

Answer 3

Antithesis

Question 4

A speaker or writers directly addressing a absent person, abstraction, or inanimate object

Answer 4

Apostrophe

Question 5

Character types, plots patterns, or images that recur throughout world literature

Answer 5

Archetype

Question 6

A stage device in which a character briefly discloses his thoughts in the presence of other characters who by convention do not hear him

Answer 6

Aside

Question 7

The repetition of similar vowel sounds is a series of words

Answer 7

Assonance

Question 8

The mood or emotion that the reader is supposed to share with the characters

Answer 8

Atmosphere

Question 9

A narrative poem often derived from folklore and originally intended t be sung or recited

Answer 9

Ballad

Question 10

The most common kind f fable. The characters are animals

Answer 10

Beast fable

Question 11

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

Answer 11

Alliteration