Literature Terms Adapted by MLS

A six line stanza is a:

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

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

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scansion

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

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

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

masculine rhyme is

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

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

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

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

How now brown cow is an example of:

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

A rhetorical question:

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

Background information in a literary work.

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

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

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

antecedent

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

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

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

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

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

An anapest is:

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Understatement is the opposite of

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

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

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