Brit Lit Final - WBT

Question 1

A line spoken to self or other character, not meant for others on the stage

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Aside

Question 2

Uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning

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Verbal Irony

Question 3

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions w/i one character

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Internal Conflict

Question 4

A descriptive phrase that is regularly used to describe a person or place

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Kenning

Question 5

A reference to something from literature, history, religion, etc.

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Allusion

Question 6

Poems written in the trenches at the Front of WWI

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Trench Poetry

Question 7

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

Question 8

Includes rhyme, rhythm/meter, alliteration, and assonance

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Word Music

Question 9

Repetition of consonant sounds, usually and the beginning of words

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Alliteration

Question 10

A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as

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Metaphor

Question 11

NOT the same as author

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Narrator

Question 12

Divided into an octave and a sestet

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Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet

Question 13

A character who acts as a contrast to another character

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Foil

Question 14

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

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Simile

Question 15

A poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener

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Dramatic Monologue

Question 16

A fourteen-line poem with a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme

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Sonnet

Question 17

Signifies shift in focus or thought

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The Turn

Question 18

A long speech expressing the private thoughts of a character alone on stage

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Soliloquy

Question 19

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

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Elegy

Question 20

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

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Tone

Question 21

Uses elevated language, addressed to a particular person, object, or event

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Ode

Question 22

Consists of three quatrains and a couplet

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English Sonnet (Shakespearean)

Question 23

A regularly repeated word, line, or group of lines

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Refrain

Question 24

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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Epiphany

Question 25

A long speech made by one actor to or or more silent listeners

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Monologue

Question 26

Phrases/sent. of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side

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Parallelism

Question 27

Use of humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize vices to bring about change

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Satire

Question 28

A stanza of four lines

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Quatrain

Question 29

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

Question 30

A narrative describing the adventures of a knight on a quest

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Romance

Question 31

A person, place, thing, etc. that stands for itself and for something else

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Symbol

Question 32

A narrative poem uses simple language & contains tragic subject matter

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Ballad

Question 33

A contrast between expectation and reality

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Irony

Question 34

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

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Assonance

Question 35

Means shepherd

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Pastoral

Question 36

Ends happily, hero/heroine overcomes obstacles, usually ends in marriage

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Comedy

Question 37

Serious events, unhappy ending, downfall of the main character

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Tragedy

Question 38

Norman conquest of England

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1066

Question 39

Long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero

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Epic

Question 40

Central idea or insight of a work of literature

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Theme

Question 41

Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

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Personification

Question 42

A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true

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Paradox

Question 43

Seize the day; live life to the fullest

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Carpe Diem

Question 44

recurs again and again in literature from many cultures and time periods

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Archetype

Question 45

Problem between a character and someone/thing outside of the character

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External Conflict

Question 46

Describing one thing in terms of another and not literally true

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Figure of Speech

Brit Lit Final - WBT

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Brit Lit Final - WBT

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