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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: Accent-Answer: When a syllable is given a greater amount of force in speaking than is given to another, also called a . Question: Alexandrine-Answer: In English verse a line of iambic hexameter, usually a caesura after the third foot. Question: Allegory-Answer: A narrative in either verse or pros in which characters, events, and in some cases, setting represent abstract concepts apart from the meaning of the story. Question: Alliteration-Answer: A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within them, in accented syllables. Question: Allusion-Answer: An indirect reference to a , place, or thing-fictitious, historical, or actual Question: -Answer: A comparison made between two objects, situations, or ideas that share something in common but are otherwise totally . Question: Anapest-Answer: A metrical foot of 3 syllables, 2 unaccented followed by 1 accented. Question: Anaphora-Answer: The of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses, verses, or paragraphs. Question: -Answer: A character in a or play that opposes the protagonist. Question: -Answer: A figure of speech in which a character or a narrator addresses an abstract concept, an inanimate object, or a person who is not present. Question: -Answer: the repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables or words; like alliteration, assonance may occur either initially or . Question: -Answer: A narrative song or poem passed on Question: Blank -Answer: Verse written in unrhymed iambic . Question: -Answer: A light but pause within a line of poetry. Question: Catharsis-Answer: the purification of emotions by experience, especially through drama. Question: -Answer: The used by an author to develop the personality of a character in a literary work. Question: -Answer: A rhetorical device in which words or phrases initially presented are restated in reverse order for example, "do not live to eat, but eat to Question: Answer: An ancient Greek , a group of actors who sang an danced in unison and provided commentary on the actions of the main characters. Question: Answer: A trite or hackneyed expression, idea, plot, development, ECT. Question: Answer: A decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot; a when the action changes course and begins to revolve itself in some manner. Question: Answer: A play written to amuse the audience, usually featuring a protagonist who's fortunes take a turn for the better. Question: ReliefAnswer: An amusing scene, incident, character, or speech to a tragic work to relieve tension. Question: Conceit Answer: An elaborate, extended, and often surprising made between two very dissimilar things that exhibits the authors ingenuity and cleverness; (from the Italian concetto, meaning concept, bright idea). Question: Concrete Answer: A poem in the visual arrangement of the letters and words suggests its meaning. Question: Answer: A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, play, novel, or narrative poem; a can be external or internal. 4 types: Person VS Person, Person VS Nature, Person VS Society, Person VS Self Question: Answer: The associations that surround a word, as opposed to its denotation. Question: ConsonanceAnswer: The repetition of consonant sounds that are by a different vowel. Question: CoupletAnswer: Two successive lines of verse that have the same and in many cases rhyme. Question: Answer: A three syllable metrical foot of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. Question: ActionAnswer: Action Question: DenouementAnswer: The resolution of a plot of a literary work; the final unraveling of the complications of a plot; the word denouement is unknotting or untying. Question: DenotationAnswer: The literal meaning of a word-its dictionary definition that doesn't take into account any other emotions or ideas the reader may with it. Question: Deus Ex Answer: a Latin term meaning the god from the machine, in ancient dramas, a god would rescue the protagonist from doom. At any event person or thing that comes in the knick of time to come to solve a difficulty. Also can refer to providential interposition. Question: DialectAnswer: Variety of language spoken by a social group or spoken in a certain locality that defers from the standard speech in pronunciation, vocabulary, and form. Question: DialogueAnswer: a conversation carried on between two or more people in a literary work; dialogue can serve many purposes, including characterization, of the plot, development of the theme(s) and creation of mood. Question: DictionAnswer: The author's choice of words and phrases; diction both connotation and denotation. Question: PoetryAnswer: whose purpose is to teach the reader some kind of lesson. Question: Dramatic Answer: A situation in which the author and the audience share by which they can recognize that the character's actions are inappropriate or that the character's words have a signifigance but these things are unknown to the character. Question: MonologueAnswer: A lyric poem in which the addresses someone whose replies are not recorded; the poet adopts the voice of a fictive or historical voice or some other persona. Question: Dramatic Answer: A situation that drives the plot of a drama that involves the relation between a character and a goal or objective and the obstacles that intervene between the character and the objective. Question: CharacterAnswer: A character that changes in some way- usually for the better- during the of the story. Question: ElegyAnswer: A lament or a sadly meditative poem, sometimes on the occasion of death; usually formal in the language and structure and solemn or melancholy in tone. Question: End Answer: Rhyming of words at the ends of of poetry. Question: End-Stopped Answer: A line of poetry that contains a complete thought, usually end with a period, colon, or semi-colon, and therefore ends in a full pause; the of a run-on line. Question: English or SonnetAnswer: A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of abab/cdcd/efef/gg; is usually presented in a 4 part structure in a theme or idea is developed in the 1st three quatrains and then is brought to a conclusion in a couplet. Question: Answer: The employment of run-on lines of poetry, whereby the meaning of the statement is on from one line to the next without a pause. Question: EPIC!!!!!!!Answer: A long narrative poem describing the of a great hero, great adventures, and matters of national or global significance and sometimes featuring supernatural forces. Question: Answer: A short poem that ends in a witty or ingenious turn of thought, to which the rest of the is intended to lead up. Question: EpigraphAnswer: a motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, poem, or that usually indicates its name. Question: EpiphanyAnswer: A moment of enlightenment in which the underlying truth or essential nature of something is revealed something or made clear to a character. Question: Answer: with letters or the writing of letters; for example, an epistolary poem is a letter written in verse. Question: Eye Answer: rhyme in which two or more words look the same and are spelled similarly but have different , for example, "have" and "grave"; also called sight rhyme. Question: ExpositionAnswer: In fiction, the narrative passages that establish the basic details of the story, including setting, time, and characters; in drama, scenes that introduce the main and introduce the dramatic situation. Question: Exposition;Answer: In some cases, the exposition will the audience with info on events that occurred prior to the point in time at which the work begins. Question: Falling Answer: In a , action that occurs after the climax and directly before the denouement or the resolution of the plot. Question: FarceAnswer: A highly comic, lighthearted drama, usually involving stack situations and characters and based on a far-fetched humorous . Question: EndingAnswer: An syllable at the end of line of poetry. Question: Feminine Answer: A in which the similarity of sound is in both of the last two syllables; for example,"weary" and "dreary". Question: Figurative Answer: Language used in a non-literal way; figurative language uses of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, synecdoche, etc. Question: Of Speech Answer: An expression in which words are used in a non-literal way to an effect beyond the range of ordinary language. Question: FlashbackAnswer: An interruption in the continuity of a by the betrayal of some earlier episode. Question: Flat Answer: A character that a single distinguishing and has not developed into a whole personality. Question: Answer: a person or thing that highlights the traits of a by contrast. Question: FootAnswer: A division of verse consisting of a number of syllables, one of that has the principal stress; the basic unit of meter in poetry. Question: Answer: The use of hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in a short story, novel, play, or poem Question: StoryAnswer: A narrative device whereby a story or group of stories is presented (often told by one of the ) within the framework of a larger narrative; Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales is an example of a framed story. Question: Free Answer: Poetry that does not have a meter of rhyme scheme. Question: HaikuAnswer: A Japanese poetic form that is comprised of three unrhymed of five, , and five syllables respectively. Question: Half-RhymeAnswer: Rhyme. Question: Hero/HeroineAnswer: The character in a work of fiction. Question: Heroic Answer: Two rhymed lines of iambic . Question: High Answer: Question: StoryAnswer: A narrative device whereby a story or group of stories is presented (often told by one of the characters) within the framework of a larger narrative; Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales is an example of a story. Question: Free Answer: Poetry that does not have a meter of rhyme scheme. Question: Answer: A Japanese poetic form that is of three unrhymed of five, seven, and five syllables respectively. Question: Half-RhymeAnswer: Slant . Question: Hero/HeroineAnswer: The character in a work of fiction. Question: CoupletAnswer: Two rhymed lines of pentameter. Question: High Answer: A comedy that appeals to the intellect using verbal wit, a clever plot, and visual elegance, usually having class characters. Question: HyperboleAnswer: A figure of speech in exaggeration or overstatement is used for special effect. Question: Answer: A metrical foot of two syllables, the first unaccented, the second accented. Question: Iambic Answer: Poetry consisting of a line of five iambs;the most common verse line in English poetry;a meter especially familiar because it in all blank verse, heroic couplets, and sonnets. Question: Answer: The details in a work of literature that to the senses of the reader, lend the work vividness, and tend to arouse an emotional response in the reader. Question: In Medias Answer: A Latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things", used in reference to that begin in the middle of the action. Question: Internal Answer: Rhyme that occurs a line of poetry. Question: Answer: The contrast between what appears to be and reality; see dramatic irony, situational irony, and irony. Question: Italian or Petrarchan Answer: A 14 line poem in two parts, an initial octet(eight lines) by a sestet( six lines), usually having a rhyme scheme of abbaabba/cdecde; the octet and sestet are usually played off of one another in some way. Question: LimerickAnswer: A five line verse form with a rhyme scheme of aabba, with the first, second, and fifth lines in tri-meter and the third and fourth in dimeter. Question: Answer: A type of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negation of its opposite; for ," this is no small problem". Question: Low Answer: |
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