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what is meter
How are folk tales passed down?
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How are folk tales passed down?
Strictly through plays and performances
Through drawings and paintings
Through writing and documentation
Through word of mouth
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what is meter
The pattern of the length of the lines in a poem
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
The pattern of how long the average stanza is in a poem
A unit of mathmatical measurement
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Which is an example of cacophony?
Crash !!!
Trombone
Vomit
Daisy
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What is an anecdote?
Something to create a humorous pause within a short story
The repetiton of a word or expression at the beginning of phrases
A short narrative used in a longer work to make a point (often humorous)
A short narrative in a longer work to further character developement
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What is a round character?
A character who is good at many things
A well developed and complex character
A character who gets along with a lot of the other characters
A dull character who is poorly developed and one dimensional
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What is denotation
The resolution after a climax
A dictionary definition of a word
annotations added by the author after a novel is completed
A word with multiple meanings
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What is an example of an antithesis
He promised wealth and provided riches
He promised wealth and provided poverty
He promised the world and delivered it
He promised to provide the poor with wealth
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What is a static character
A well developed and complex character
A secondary character that is in the background of a story
A character that stays the same throughout a story
A character that's different at the end of the story compared to the start
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What is a synecdoche?
Substition of a word for what it represents
A figure of speech were something stands for something else
A phrase that contradicts itself
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What is an archetype?
A character or plot element that carries over all cultures and time periods
Two characters with similar characteristics
A character that contrasts and reflects another character
A character or plot event specific to a specific culture
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What is anadiplosis?
Repetition of the last word of a line to begin the next
Repetition of the first word of a line to begin the next
Repetition of the middle word of a line to begin the next
The character who opposes the main character in a piece of literature
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What is colloquial?
Commonly used words or slang in everyday speech by most people
A certain attitude or behaviour within a sub-group of people
A formal writing technique
Informal expressions usually connected to a geographical area or group
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What is an allegory?
A work of literature with both a literal and a symbolic meaning
makes a reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object
Literature that conveys a theory
A work of literature with only a symbolic meaning
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What is anachronism?
Something out of its place in time or history
Something historically accurate
Something that can be interpreted with multiple meanings
Something slightly correct within historical reference
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What is an allusion?
A thing that is likely to be wrongly percieved by the senses
Makes reference to another book
Repitition of the beginning consonant sounds
makes reference to a historical or literary event, figure or object
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What is exposition?
An analysis of a piece of writing looking at facts
When words are switched around within a sentence
The final material that alters the tone and perception of characters
Introductory material that sets tone, gives setting, characters and facts
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What is a parable?
A graph in mathematics
A short story to prove a moral point
A short story meant to evoke emotion
A humorous short story
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What is an antecedent?
A pronoun that a noun refers back to in a sentence
A pronoun that is repeated over multple sentences
A noun that is repeated over multiple sentences
The noun that a pronoun refers back to in a sentence
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An arguement is based on opinions
False
True
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What is an analogy?
Makes reference to a historical or literary event
Comparison of two things without using like or as
Comparison of two things with the purpose of clarrifying an unfamiliar idea
Makes reference to a historical or literary figure
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What is denouement
When the conflict of a story has no resolution
When there's multiple resolutions to a conflict
When the conflict resolves itself
The resolution of a plot after the climax
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What is a polysyndeton
Repetiton of the same word close together
Repetition of multiple of conjunctions close together
Repetition of multiple of conjugations close together
Repetition of the same word over the course of a paragraph
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What is vernacular?
Language used to describe the sound of something
Language used to express intense emotions and feelings
A slang word that is commonly used
The way of speaking or expressing oneself within a group or class
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What's a farce?
A far fetched lie characters believe is factual
A fictional piece of literature
A light-hearted, ridiculous comedy
When a piece of literature is created by ghost-writing
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What is an ellipsis
The addition unnecessary words to add detail to writing
The ommision of unnecessary words that make the author seem pretentious
The ommision of necessary word(s) in construction but understood in context
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What is a conceit?
An elaborate comparison between two disimilar things
A character that is very self absorbed
Two unalike things beside each other in a sentence
A comparison between a person and an inanimate object
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What is an epithet
A nickame or appellation
A grouping of three clauses used to further plot
Words or a speech delivered at a funeral
An engraving on a tombstone
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What is chiasmus
Reversed repetition in successive clauses
When the first word of a sentence is reapeated in following sentences
The scientific name for repetition
When a phrase is repeated multiple times for dramatic effect
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What is a blank verse?
When a verse is cut short by another speaker
An unrhymed iambic pentameter
When there's a pause within a verse
A rhyming iambic pentameter
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Which is an example of an epanalepsis
Nothing can be created out of nothing
She sells seashells down by the seashore
If (it is) possible, (you) come early
When I was a child, I spoke as a child
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What is a crux?
The most crucial messages within a novel
Important words within a passage
The most crucial lines in a poem
When a piece of literature has multiple climaxes throughout it
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What is ambiguity
Expression of an idea that gives multiple meanings and leaves uncertainty
A work of literature that conveys determination
A vague expression
Expression of an idea with one solid meaning
