Terms Used in Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

story where people,things, and events have another meaning

Question 2

apostrophe

Answer 2

address to someone or something not present or unable to respond (except God)

Question 3

convention

Answer 3

standard for particular time period

Question 4

didactic

Answer 4

teaching a moral lesson

Question 5

epigram

Answer 5

short statement using contrast

Question 6

grotesque

Answer 6

characterized by severe distortion of reality

Question 7

jargon

Answer 7

language specific to a field

Question 8

lyrical

Answer 8

songlike, emotional and subjective

Question 9

parable

Answer 9

story with a moral lesson

Question 10

parody

Answer 10

piece that mocks by imitation

Question 11

reliability

Answer 11

how much a reader than trust a character

Question 12

soliloquy

Answer 12

speech where a lone character speaks his or her thoughts aloud

Question 13

syllogism

Answer 13

a form of reasoning where two statements are made and conclusion is drawn from them

Question 14

alliteration

Answer 14

repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 15

ballad meter

Answer 15

4-line stanzas where 2nd and 4th line rhyme

Question 16

dactyl

Answer 16

metrical foot with stress unstressed unstressed

Question 17

end-stopped

Answer 17

a line with a punctuation that pauses at the end of a line

Question 18

free verse

Answer 18

poetry not in traditional meter but still rhythmical

Question 19

hexameter

Answer 19

a line with 6 feet

Question 20

internal rhyme

Answer 20

rhyme that occurs within a line

Question 21

pentameter

Answer 21

a line with 5 feet

Question 22

sonnet

Answer 22

14 line iambic pentameter poem

Question 23

terza rima

Answer 23

3 line stanza

Question 24

antecedent

Answer 24

noun that a pronoun refers to

Question 25

ellipsis

Answer 25

omission of words (...)

Question 26

modify

Answer 26

describe

Question 27

periodic sentence

Answer 27

sentence that is complete only at the end

Question 28

ambiguity

Answer 28

unclear with more than one meaning

Question 29

connotation

Answer 29

implied meaning of a word

Question 30

denotation

Answer 30

actual meaning of a word

Question 31

digression

Answer 31

going off topic in literature

Question 32

euphemism

Answer 32

using softer sounding words to avoid bluntness

Question 33

literal

Answer 33

not figurative

Question 34

oxymoron

Answer 34

2 word paradox

Question 35

paradox

Answer 35

a statements that seems contradictory but true

Question 36

personification

Answer 36

use of language that gives nonhumans human characterstics

Question 37

rhetorical question

Answer 37

question asked for effect

Question 38

stereotype

Answer 38

conventional pattern

Question 39

thesis

Answer 39

position a writer proves

Question 40

assonance

Answer 40

repetition of vowel sounds

Question 41

blank verse

Answer 41

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 42

heroic couplet

Answer 42

2 end-stopped iambic pentameter lines that rhyme

Question 43

iamb

Answer 43

foot with unstressed followed by stressed

Question 44

onomatopoeia

Answer 44

words whose sound suggest their meaning

Question 45

rhyme royal

Answer 45

7 line stanza

Question 46

stanza

Answer 46

repeated grouping of lines with same meter and rhyme scheme

Question 47

tetrameter

Answer 47

a line of four feet

Question 48

clause

Answer 48

group of words that contains a subject and its verb

Question 49

imperative

Answer 49

command sentence

Question 50

parallel structure

Answer 50

similar grammatical structure within a sentence of paragraph

Question 51

syntax

Answer 51

sentence structure

Question 52

hyperbole

Answer 52

overstatement