Unit 2 Set 2 Lit Terms

Question 1

Your personal feelings about: “Friendship”
“Sports”
“Edgar Allan Poe”

Answer 1

Personal Essay

Question 2

a short, witty statement, often in couplet form

Answer 2

Epigram

Question 3

He knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.”
~Anonymous

Answer 3

Epigram

Question 4

words used apart from their ordinary, literal meanings in such a way as to add freshness, conciseness, and vitality to them—-figures of speech.

Answer 4

Figurative Language

Question 5

direct address of a person not living or present, of inanimate objects, or of abstract qualities.

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Apostrophe

Question 6

Beware, O asparagus, you’ve stalked my last meal. You look like a snake and slip down like an eel. I’d prefer drinking a bottle of turpentine,
Rather than eating a tidbit so serpentine.
~Wanda Fergus, “Vegetables I Hate”

Answer 6

Apostrophe

Question 7

a hint given to the reader of what is to come.

Answer 7

Foreshadowing

Question 8

the sounds of words are similar but not identical

Answer 8

Slant rhyme/off rhyme/half rhyme

Question 9

heard / roared

Answer 9

Slant rhyme/off rhyme/half rhyme

Question 10

a short narrative that draws a moral lesson or illustrates a religious truth. It resembles an allegory in having an obvious moral intention. Unlike an allegory, however, a parable need not have characters or objects that stand for abstract qualities.

Answer 10

Parable

Question 11

Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”

Answer 11

Parable

Question 12

a very short story that is told to make a point. Many anecdotes are humorous; some are serious. Ben Franklin tells several anecdotes in his Autobiography, and Mark Twain tells several amusing ones in his Life on the Mississippi.

Answer 12

Anecdote

Question 13

a prayer, song, or poem for the repose of the dead.

Answer 13

Requiem

Question 14

Melville’s poem, “Shiloh: A Requiem”

Answer 14

Requiem

Question 15

a poem or part of a poem that describes and idealizes country life.

Answer 15

Idyll

Question 16

Whittier’s poem, “Snowbound”

Answer 16

Idyll

Question 17

a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them.

Answer 17

Analogy

Question 18

Longfellow’s poem, “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”—in this poem Longfellow draws an analogy for the sake of illustration where he compares the repeated rise and fall of the tide to the passage of time and human life.

Answer 18

Analogy

Question 19

a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. The Italian sonnet has two parts, an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines. It is usually rhymed abbaabba cdecde. The two parts of the Italian sonnet play off each other in a variety of ways. Sometimes the octave raises a question which the sestet answers. Sometimes the sestet opposes what the octave says or extends it.

Answer 19

Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

Question 20

Longfellow’s poem, “Nature”

Answer 20

Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

Question 21

a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean sonnet, a form made famous by William Shakespeare, consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a concluding couplet (two rhyming lines), with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. In a typical Shakespearean sonnet, each quatrain is a variant of the basic idea and the couplet draws a conclusion about it.

Answer 21

Shakespearean (English) Sonnet

Question 22

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Sonnet III” from Second April 1921.

Answer 22

Shakespearean (English) Sonnet

Question 23

a four-line stanza.

Answer 23

Quatrain

Question 24

an eight-line stanza.

Answer 24

Octave

Question 25

a six-line stanza.

Answer 25

Sestet

Question 26

the basic unit of meter in poetry. A foot is made up of one stressed syllable and, usually, one or more unstressed syllables.

Answer 26

Poetic Foot

Question 27

a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, as in the word “around”

Answer 27

Iamb

Question 28

a foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in the word “broken.”

Answer 28

Trochee

Question 29

a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable, as in the phrase “in a flash.”

Answer 29

Anapest

Question 30

a foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in the word “argument.”

Answer 30

Dactyl

Question 31

The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. This pattern is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line.

Answer 31

Meter

Question 32

Scansion is the process of analyzing a poem’s metrical pattern. When a poem is scanned, its stressed and unstressed syllables are marked to show what poetic feet are used and how many feet appear in each line.

Answer 32

Scansion

Question 33

The last two lines of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore” may be scanned as follows: But I / shall find / the sul / len rocks / and skies Unchanged / from what / they were / when I / was young.

Answer 33

Scansion

Question 34

verse written in five-foot lines:

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Pentameter

Question 35

I doubt / not God / is good, / well-mean / ing, kind, And did / He stoop ? to quib / ble could / tell why The lit / tle bur / ied mole / contin / ues blind ~”Yet Do I Marvel,” Countee Cullen

Answer 35

Pentameter

Question 36

verse written in one-foot lines

Answer 36

Monomer ear

Question 37

Evil Begets Evil | ~Anonymous

Answer 37

Monometer

Question 38

verse written in two-foot lines

Answer 38

Dimeter

Question 39

This is / the time Of the trag / ic man ~”Visits to St. Elizabeth’s,” Elizabeth Bishop

Answer 39

Dimeter

Question 40

verse written in three-foot lines:

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Trimeter

Question 41

Over / the win / ter glaciers I see / the sum / mer glow, And through / the wild- / piled snowdrift The warm / rosebuds / below. ~”Beyond Winter,” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 41

Trimeter

Question 42

verse written in four-foot lines:

Answer 42

Tetrameter

Question 43

The sun / that brief / Decem / ber day | Rose cheer / less ov / er hills / of gray. ~”Snowbound,” Whittier

Answer 43

Tetrameter

Question 44

verse written in six-foot lines:

Answer 44

Hexameter

Question 45

This is the / forest pri / meval. The / murmuring / pines and the / hemlocks ~”Evangeline,” Longfellow

Answer 45

Hexameter

Question 46

a foot in which the last syllable is accented as in the Iamb or the Anapest.

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Rising Meter/Rhythm

Question 47

Iam / bics march / from short / to long. With a leap / and a bound / the swift An / apests throng. ~Samuel Coleridge (English Author), from his poem on poetic feet.

Answer 47

Rising Meter

Question 48

a foot in which the first syllable is accented, as in a Trochee or Dactyl.

Answer 48

Falling Meter

Question 49

Trochee / is in / falling / double, | Dactyl is / falling, like--- / Tripoli. ~Samuel Coleridge (English Author), from his poem on poetic feet.

Answer 49

Falling Meter

Question 50

atmosphere---the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Elements that can influence the mood of a work include its setting, tone, and events.

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Mood

Question 51

the use in a literary work of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area. It can be created by the use of dialect and by descriptions of customs, clothing, manners, attitudes, and landscape. Local Color authors include Bret Harte and Mark Twain.

Answer 51

Local Color

Question 52

a section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of eventstorelateaneventfromanearliertime. Awritermaypresentaflashbackasacharacter’s memory or recollection, as part of an account or story told by a character, as a dream or a daydream, or simply by having the narrator switch to a time in the past.

Answer 52

Flashback

Question 53

a poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent listener.

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Dramatic Monologue

Question 54

T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Answer 54

Dramatic Monologue

Question 55

explores the meaning of an important experience in the writer’s life. In this kind of expressive writing, specific narrative and descriptive details help to make the experience seem real to the reader.

Answer 55

Personal Essay