Midterm

Question 0

Allegory

Answer 0

Story to reveal a hidden moral.

Question 1

Synechdoche

Answer 1

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

Question 2

Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 3

Ambiguity

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Uncertainty in meaning

Question 4

Anaphora

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A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated (usually in the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.

Question 5

Anecdote

Answer 5

A short account of an incident in someone’s life

Question 6

Antithesis

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Direct opposite compared with parallelism

Question 7

Anthropomorphism

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Assigning human characteristics to nonhuman beings or things.

Question 8

Apostrophe

Answer 8

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

Question 9

Blank Verse

Answer 9

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 10

Cacophony

Answer 10

Harsh sounding words.

Question 11

Caesura

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A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

Question 12

Caricature

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A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a singular facet of someone’s personality.

Question 13

Chaismus

Answer 13

Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses

Question 14

colloquialism

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Slang terminology.

Question 15

Conciet

Answer 15

A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between unlike objects

Question 16

couplet

Answer 16

A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.

Question 17

Didactic

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Tone word emphasizing teaching or instruction.

Question 18

Elegy

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A lyrical poem that laments the dead.

Question 19

Epigraph

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A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.

Question 20

Epigram

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A brief witty poem, often satirical.

Question 21

Epistrophe

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A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.

Question 22

Epithet

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Descriptive title.

Question 23

Euphony

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Sweet sounding words

Question 24

Idiom

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A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

Question 25

Inversion

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A reversal of the usual order of words

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Juxtaposition

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Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast

Question 27

Litotes

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Positive understatement expressed by a double negative.

Question 28

Memoir

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A type if autobiography that covers a short period of time

Question 29

Meter

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A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line if poetry

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it

Question 31

Oxymoron

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A figure if speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase

Question 32

parable

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(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message

Question 33

Quatrain

Answer 33

4 line stanza

Question 34

Synesthesia

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Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another

Question 35

Syntax

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Set of rules in a language

Question 36

Vernacular

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Everyday language

Question 37

Conceited

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Having an excessively favorable opinion in ones abilities.

Question 38

Capricious

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Changing one's mind quickly and often

Question 39

Supercilious

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Arrogant

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Duplicitous

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Deceitful

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Vindictively

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Vengefully

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Scathing

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Harshly critical

Question 43

Ascetic

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Self denial