Vocab #3

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

Relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form

Question 2

Caesura

Answer 2

Pause or interruption in a poem-opposite of enjambment

Question 3

Caricature

Answer 3

Portrait that exaggerates a human trait

Question 4

Catharsis

Answer 4

Emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy

Question 5

Conceit

Answer 5

Extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things

Question 6

Deus ex machina

Answer 6

Literally ‘god out of a machine’ sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer

Question 7

Magical realism

Answer 7

Combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements

Question 8

Pastoral

Answer 8

Work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature

Question 9

Persona

Answer 9

Narrator in a non-first-person novel

Question 10

Satire

Answer 10

Genre that ridicules it’s subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change