Literature Terms Adapted by MLS

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

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

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

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

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

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

masculine rhyme is

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

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

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

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

Scansion

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

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

A six line stanza is a:

How now brown cow is an example of:

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

An anapest is:

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

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

Background information in a literary work.

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

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

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

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

Which of the following works had a parallel plot?

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

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

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

A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.

Understatement is the opposite of

All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:

A rhetorical question:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

antecedent

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

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

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

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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