Unit 3

Question 0

Instruction in literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should have two purposes; to delight and to teach

Answer 0

Didacticism

Question 1

A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns

Answer 1

Sonnet

Question 2

The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

Read and understand the full d finite on given in your textbook glossary

Answer 2

Meter

Question 3

Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases

Answer 3

Rhyme

Question 4

A four line stanza, one of the most common stance forms in English poetry

Answer 4

Quatrain

Question 5

The addressing of some nonpersonal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply (“O,Death, where is thy sting.”

Answer 5

Apostrophe

Question 6

Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated of implied equivalence of Two things (“I am the bread of life.”

Answer 6

Metaphor

Question 7

A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. It’s major theme is its main point, similar to the thesis of an essay. It may explicit (stated outright) or implicit (it’s concept must be inferred)

Answer 7

Theme

Question 8

A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail

Answer 8

Conceit

Question 9

Unrhymed iambic-pentameter

Answer 9

Blank verse