Terms

Question 0

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

Question 1

A tale, verse or prose in where the characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities

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Allegory

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Reference to the bible, history, or art in literature

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Allusion

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Comparison between two objects for the purpose of finding similarities

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Analogy

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Poetic foot of two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable

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Anapest

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A noun or pronoun that explains another noun or pronoun

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Appositive

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The character opposing the protagonist, causing the conflict

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Antagonist

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The balancing of two contrasting words or phrases

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Antithesis

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Poetic device in which the writer directly addresses a person, place, or thing as if it were present

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Apostrophe

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A speech in plays which is intended for the audience only and not for the other characters onstage

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Aside

Question 10

Repetition of vowl sounds in a line of poetry

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Assonance

Question 11

Poem that tells a story, four line stanzas, 2nd and 4th lines rhyme

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Balled

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Earliest ballads that have no known author

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Folk ballad

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Story of a persons life

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Biography

Question 14

Poetic verse of unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

Question 15

A break or pause in a line of poetry

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Caesura

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A section or division of a poem

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Canto

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Decisive moment in a story where the reader knows the outcome

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Climax

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Protagonist extricates himself from his obstacle

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Comedy

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Sophisticated humor that appeals to the sophisticated society, comedy stems from the breaking the rules of society

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Comedy of manner

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The struggle the protagonist faces, the plot revolves around this

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Conflict

Question 21

Repetition of consonance sounds in a line of poetry

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Consonance

Question 22

A poetic foot with stressed followed by two unstressed

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Dactyl

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A brief witty pointed content, often a brief poem

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Epigram

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A short poem in memory of someone who has died (usually on a tombstone)

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Epitaph

Question 25

a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter

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Elizabethan Sonnet

Question 29

Non fiction, expressing a point if view Formal-dignified, instruct persuade Informal-relaxed,conversational, any topic

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Essay

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After the climax

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Denouement/ falling action

Question 31

A tale which uses animals with human characteristics to provide a moral message

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Fable

Question 32

Departs from the literal to achieve special effect

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Figurative language

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Permits a writer to say one thing but mean another

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Figures of speech

Question 34

Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplet

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A verse line if six feet

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Hexameter

Question 36

Overstatement of fact used for serious or humorous effect

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Hyperbole

Question 37

Unstressed followed by a stress

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Iamb

Question 38

Five lines of iamb

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Iambic pentameter

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Rhyme scheme composed of, A-B-A-B-C-B

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Interlocking rhyme

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Rhyme within a line of poetry

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Internal rhyme

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Figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or between them

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Metaphor

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A metaphor that compares two startlingly similar things

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Metaphysical Conceit

Question 43

A regular pattern of rhythm in poetry

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Meter

Question 44

Work that deals with a trivial topic and treated humorously that still has the components of an epic

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Mock epic

Question 45

Eight lines of a sonnet

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Octave

Question 46

Serious dignified lyric poem written for a special occasion, in honor of a person or abstract idea

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Ode

Question 47

Word that sound suggests the meaning

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Onomatopoeia

Question 48

Poem mourning the death of someone

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Elegy

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A sermon at a funeral

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Eulogy

Question 50

A poem that has 14 lines

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Sonnet

Question 51

Variable meter that involves stressed following a varying amount of unstressed

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Sprung rhythm

Question 52

A technique that imitates the characters thoughts

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Stream of consciousness

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Authors characteristic way of writing word choice, arrangement of words, relation to words and sentences

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Style

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Word that stands for an idea

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Symbol

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Literary movement where no direct statements only symbols to suggest any meaning and create a mood

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Symbolism

Question 56

A poetic line of 4 feet

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Tetrameter

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A poetic line of 3 feet

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Trimeter

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Hero does not solve his problem

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Tragedy

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The way of writing, the way words are arranged, and put together and make constitutes

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Syntax

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Stressed followed by one unstressed

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Trochee

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Itricaly pattern French poem, number of three line stanzas, last stanza is four lines, first and third lines are used as refrains, refrain is the end of the poem, only has two rhymes in whole poem

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Villanelle