Quiz 3

Question 1

Adage

Answer 1

a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

ex: look before you leap, penny saved is a penny earned

Question 2

alliteration

Answer 2

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August

Question 3

Aside

Answer 3

a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).

Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.

Question 5

Caesura

Answer 5

a break between words within a metrical foot.
(in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.
any interruption or break.

Question 6

Consonance

Answer 6

the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody).

Mike likes his new bike

Question 7

Soliloquy

Answer 7

an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play