Week 6

Question 1

Dramatic soliloquy

Answer 1

When a character in a dramatic work speaks directly to the audience, expressing their inner thoughts

Question 2

Prosody

Answer 2

Study of meter, intonation, and rhythm of a poetic work.

Question 3

Rhetorical appeals

Answer 3

Methods of persuading someone in an argument (Ethos, Logos, Pathos)

Question 4

Thematic patterning

Answer 4

The insertion of a recurring motif in a narrative

Question 5

Parallelism (parallel syntax) (a structural feature)

Answer 5

A rhetorical device that consists of repetition among adjacent sentences or clauses

Question 6

Idiom

Answer 6

A saying or expression where the figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning

Question 7

Analogy

Answer 7

A figure of speech that creates a comparison by showing how two seemingly different entities are alike, along with illustrating a larger point due to their commonalities

Question 8

Analogy

Answer 8

A figure of speech that creates a comparison by showing how two seemingly different entities are alike, along with illustrating a larger point due to their commonalities
Phrasing is generally ‘(first word) is to (second word) as (third word) is to (fourth word)’

Question 9

Verbal irony

Answer 9

When a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say subtly