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Literature Major and Minor Final
Literature Major and Minor Final
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A comparison using like or as
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Paradox
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What is an end-stopped line?
A poetic line with a stop sign picture at the end
A poetic line with a pause at the end
The last line of a poetic stanza
A line that cuts off the poetic thought
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The apparent attitude of a writer towards the reader or something in their work
Tone
Allusion
Poetic Diction
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What is a line said to the audience that other characters on stage can't hear?
Aside
Soliloquy
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When a body part is used to describe an entire person, like "all hands on deck"
Personification
Synechdoche
Metaphor
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What is rhythm?
The beats per minute of a poem
The use of a drum by scopes
When the ending of words sounds similar
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed sounds
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When an inanimate object is treated as a human
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
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What is a foot in poetry?
The last line in a stanza
A line in poetry
A way to measure rhythm
A stressed syllable and 1 or 2 unstressed syllables
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The direct meaning of a word
Dennotation
Connotation
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Rhyme that is close but not quiet rhyming. example: Home and Same
Internal Rhyme
Off rhyme
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What is a couplet?
last two lines of a poem
two lines that usually have the same rhyme and meter
four lines that usually have the same rhyme and meter
The last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet
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A play that was meant to be read and not performed
Closet Drama
Morality Play
Miracle play
Mystery Play
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When word choice is elevated for effect. Aka: no one talks how the writer writes.
Allusion
Tone
Poetic Diction
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Parallel phrases that mirror each other but make a point
Metonymy
Chiasmus
Antithesis
Anaphora
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What is an enjambment?
When the characters of a poem must choose between two bad choices
When the characters of a poem reach a conflict
When the poetic sentence runs on to the next line
When a writer purposely deltes the spaces between words
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The associations that go with a word
Connotation
Dennotation
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Two contrasting words or phrases that balance each other out
Chiasmus
Anaphora
Antithesis
Metonymy
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When words or phrases evoke physical or emotional senses
Theme
Syntax
Imagery
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A play that is about saints
Mystery Play
Morality Play
Miracle Play
Closet Drama
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The overall message of a piece of literature
Theme
Syntax
Imagery
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A statement that seems contradicting but is actually true
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Paradox
Simile
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The repetition of an internal vowel sound. "Going Home" is an example
Personification
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
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When a word or phrase is used to represent a similar word or phrase. For example, the crown meaning royalty.
Metonymy
Antithesis
Chiasmus
Anaphora
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Euphony is
Easy to pronounce and flows well
Hard to pronounce and sounds awkward
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An exaggeration in literature
Hyperbole
Paradox
Simile
Metaphor
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A play about biblical stories, like the Resurrection Jesus
Miracle Play
Morality Play
Closet Drama
Mystery Play
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The repetition of a consonant, usually at the front of words or on a stressed syllable
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
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The starting speech in a Shakespearean play
The first speech
The silencing of cell-phones
The prologue
The preparation
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A pyramidal pattern is
Plot that starts in medias res
Plot with rising action, climax, and then falling action
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Stage directions are notes that describe the set or blocking for a play
True
False
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Which poem would be an elegy?
A poem a student that didn't get into their top college
A poem of a grandparent that died
A poem of a puppy that lost his ball
A poem of a person that losses their job
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When the writer or poet includes a reference to another work or history
Tone
Allusion
Poetic Diction
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When two contradictory words appear together to describe something
Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold"
Paradox
Oxymoron
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Rhyme that occurs within the same line of poetry
Internal Rhyme
Off rhyme
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An implied comparison without using like or as
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Paradox
Simile
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Cacophony is...
Hard to pronounce and sounds awkward
Easy to pronounce, and flows beautifully
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A word that means a sound, such as "Pop", "Bang" or "POW"
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Personification
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A play with an emphasized morals and characters that personify abstract qualities
Miracle Play
Closet Drama
Morality Play
Mystery Play
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What is a line spoken by one actor alone onstage
Aside
Soliloquy
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Another word for dangerous pride...
Super Pride
Humor
Hubris
Cat
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The repetition of a word or phrase in two sentences or phrases
Chiasmus
Anaphora
Metonymy
Antithesis
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Deus ex Machina is
A plot where gods destroy machines
A plot where technology is the way to defeat the antagonist
A plot where the resolution is "too easy". God as a machine of resolution
A plot where the dangers of technology are shown
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An apostrophe in literature is when a person talks to an abstract thing.
False
True
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Sentence structure of a piece
Theme
Imagery
Syntax
