Literature Terms

"Little strokes/Fell great oaks" is an example of an:

A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved.

"Sofie was no ordinary Jesus" is an example of a _______________.

A _____________ is usually paired with an octave to make a Petrarchan sonnet.

Highly structured poem: six stanzas-five tercets, a quatrain and repeating first and third line

Genre is which characters experience reality differently from what we term the objective world.

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

masculine rhyme is

One might write a/an ________________for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, or your high school career.

Transparent language, lack of sentimentality, psychology, and objectivity.

The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life-a heartbeat.

Ridiculing writing , criticizing the corruption or foolishness of society, intended to improve.

Which of the following works point out the compromised position of women?

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Poetry characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.

A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abcd

Genre of poetry characterized by short lyric poems by courtiers with a theme of "carpe diem."

"When she saw the monster she was putrified" contains an example of:

"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "s:he was no saint" are examples of

Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality such as an ode.

The words, downtown, earthquake, and doorstop are all _________________

The rhetorical appeal that would inspire feelings of pity, sympathy, or sorrow would be ____.

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

The word "faithful" mimics the beat of what metrical foot?

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

"You can take the girl out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the girl" is a

Restraint, clarity, noble purpose, and objectivity are hallmarks of _________________.

antecedent

A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson is a:

According to Aristotle, the release of emotions that the audience of a tragedy experiences.

Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:

Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge

A literary movement that stressed "art for art's sake" and defied conventions was _____________

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

How now brown cow is an example of:

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

Hamlet is speaking in ________ when he says "I must be cruel only to be kind."

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

A rhetorical question:

Scansion

Like the downward smoke, the slender stream/Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem

A type of poem which extols the virtues of and ideal place or time.

A quotation placed at the beginning of a novel or other document.

The purpose of the rhetorical appeal of ethos is to __________________.

A six line stanza is a:

The literary movement that takes realism to the extreme and depicts man as an animal in society

A soliloquy in a Shakespearean play is an example of a/an:

A kind of comedy that relies on exaggerated or improbable situations or sexual innuendo.

Background information in a literary work.

An anapest is:

figure of speech- replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it

A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.

According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must have all of the following traits except _______.

"Goodbye Chris Hemsworth, I bid you adieu, as I tiptoe through the early morning dew"

Half a league, half a league/Half a league onward contains what kind of metric foot?

Understatement is the opposite of