Vocab

Question 1

Paradox

Answer 1

Has a universal truth, but sounds absurd or contradictory

Question 2

Situational irony

Answer 2

What you think will happen but the opposite happens

Question 3

Shift

Answer 3

A change in mood or tone

Question 4

Dramatic irony

Answer 4

The reader knows something the character doesn’t

Question 5

Allegory

Answer 5

A story with a meaning behind it

Question 6

Allusion

Answer 6

A reference to something without meaning

Question 7

Paradox

Answer 7

Has a universal truth, but sounds obsurd or condradictory.

Question 8

Synesthesia

Answer 8

Mix two senses together to describe something

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

An exaggeration of something

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

Words that are repeated throughout the text, quotes

Question 11

Apostrophe

Answer 11

Something that is mentioned but is not there

Question 12

Conciet

Answer 12

A long extended metaphor

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

An exaggeration of something

Question 14

Euphemism

Answer 14

A more nicer way of saying something

Question 15

Metonomy

Answer 15

Substitution of that word with a word close to that word

Question 16

Antaclasis

Answer 16

The same word that is used two different ways in a sentence

Question 17

Synecdoche

Answer 17

That substitute word is part of the other word

Question 18

Epitet

Answer 18

A description that describes the quality of someone

Question 19

Masculine rhyme

Answer 19

A single stressed syllable

Question 20

Feminine rhyme

Answer 20

2 syllables, one unstressed

Question 21

Ode

Answer 21

A poem that speaks to exaulting or and enthusiastic

Question 22

Alimeric

Answer 22

A short humorous poem with 5 lines

Question 23

Sestete

Answer 23

Has 6 lines

Question 24

Juxtaposition

Answer 24

A contrast between when you place to concepts in close proximity

Question 25

Pathos

Answer 25

Appeals to emotion

Question 26

Logos

Answer 26

Appeals to logic

Question 27

Ethics

Answer 27

Appeals to ethics

Question 28

Injament

Answer 28

When the sentence finishes on another line

Question 29

Asynetan

Answer 29

The ommission of conjunctions

Question 30

Polysydenton

Answer 30

Stretching the Asyneton

Question 31

Epitaph

Answer 31

The writing on a tomb

Question 32

Elegy

Answer 32

A funeral song

Question 33

Epistrophe

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Repetition of words of succeeding clauses

Question 34

Satire

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Make something funny about something serious

Question 35

Idyll

Answer 35

A peaceful calm setting

Question 36

Scansion

Answer 36

To determine a meter of a poem by looking at lines and syllables

Question 37

Ballad

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A poem that tells a story, such as the night before Christmas

Question 38

Cacophony

Answer 38

A harsh mixture of sounds

Question 39

Caesura

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A grammatical break

Question 40

Epic

Answer 40

A hero

Question 41

Ehiasmus

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A phrase followed by the converse of the phrase

Question 42

Verbal Irony

Answer 42

Sarcasim

Question 43

Etymology

Answer 43

Origin of a word

Question 44

Diction

Answer 44

Word choice

Question 45

Similie

Answer 45

Using like or as

Question 46

Metaphor

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Comparison not using like or as

Question 47

Rhetorical question

Answer 47

A question that asks itself

Question 48

Foot

Answer 48

a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.”

Question 49

Antithesis

Answer 49

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Question 50

Paralliesm

Answer 50

Similar sentence structure

Question 51

Tomswifty

Answer 51

A pun

Question 52

Iamb

Answer 52

unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Question 53

Iambic pentameter

Answer 53

Consists of 10 syllables

Question 54

Anapest

Answer 54

consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable

Question 55

Meter

Answer 55

basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry

Question 56

Stanza

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A certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme

Question 57

Assonance

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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

Question 58

consonance

Answer 58

agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.

Question 59

Blank Verse

Answer 59

Blank verse is unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines.

Question 60

Personification

Answer 60

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman