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A rhetorical question:
does not anticipate an answer
is personal
expects a negative answer
presumes an erroneous answer
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masculine rhyme is
rhyme of one syllable
slant rhyme
rhyme of two syllables
approximate rhyme
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Genre of poetry characterized by short lyric poems by courtiers with a theme of "carpe diem."
Beat
Metaphysical
Cavalier
Romantic
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A six line stanza is a:
sestina
sestet
septet
spondee
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A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.
masculine rhyme
caeusura
epistrophe
heroic couplet
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Genre is which characters experience reality differently from what we term the objective world.
romanticism
magical realism
realism
Parable
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"You can take the girl out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the girl" is a
Caesura
paradox
juxtaposition
chiasmus
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Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:
stage direction
monologue
soliloquy
aside
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Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality such as an ode.
free verse
narrative
epic
lyric
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All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:
emotions
rationalism
the sublime
the individual
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Half
a league,
half
a league/
Half
a league
on
ward contains what kind of metric foot?
trochee
iamb
dactyl
anapest
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A quotation placed at the beginning of a novel or other document.
epigram
non sequitur
parable
epigraph
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Scansion
highly structured poetic form of 39 lines
A direct comparison
Analysis of a poem's rhyme and meter
the grammatical structure of prose
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The word "faithful" mimics the beat of what metrical foot?
dactyl
trochee
iamb
spondee
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A type of poem which extols the virtues of and ideal place or time.
Idyll
Pastoral
ballad
dramatic monologue
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"When she saw the monster she was putrified" contains an example of:
hyperbole
metaphor
spoonerism
malapropism
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figure of speech- replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it
simile
synedoche
symbol
metonymy
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Highly structured poem: six stanzas-five tercets, a quatrain and repeating first and third line
elegy
villanelle
sonnet
ballad
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The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life-a heartbeat.
iamb
dactyl
trochee
anapest
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Antimetabole is a literary device in which a phrase is repeated but in reverse order. Same as:
chiasmus
vignette
onomatopoeia
parody
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Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge
epiphany
epithet
climax
epistrophe
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antecedent
an abrupt, disappointing end
the deliberate choice of a style of language
a reference in literature a work of art or other writing
the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers
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"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "s:he was no saint" are examples of
epigram
metaphors
litotes
metonomy
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"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats
anapest
apostrophe
anaphora
aubade
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A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.
paradox
parody
pathos
parable
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A poem that laments the dead or a loss-
sonnet
elegy
ballad
lyric
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Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
hyperbole
cacophony
euphony
connotation
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How now brown cow is an example of:
feminine rhyme
consonance
assonance
alliteration
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A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abcd
ballad
free verse
villanelle
dramatic monologue
30
"Get your butt over here" is an example of
paraphrase
synecdoche
metonomy
parallelism
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A kind of comedy that relies on exaggerated or improbable situations or sexual innuendo.
parody
relief
farce
satire
32
Quality of being intentionally unclear.
oxymoron
ambiguity
paradox
allusion
33
According to Aristotle, the release of emotions that the audience of a tragedy experiences.
catharsis
Epic
consonance
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A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson is a:
magical realism
parable
parody
paradox
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The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:
volta
reverse
shiftinio
spaghetti
36
Ridiculing writing , criticizing the corruption or foolishness of society, intended to improve.
tongue-in-cheek
Parody
Satire
analogy
37
Background information in a literary work.
rising action
exciting force
exposition
prologue
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Poetry characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.
Lyric
Victorian
Romantic
Metaphysical
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"Little strokes/Fell great oaks" is an example of an:
epigram
epigraph
euphony
epistrophe
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
consonance
poetry
blank verse
Haiku
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Like the downward smoke, the slender stream/Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem
euphemism
slant rhyme
cacophony
euphony
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An anapest is:
An accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable
An unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable
Two accented syllables followed by an unaccented syllable.
Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
43
A soliloquy in a Shakespearean play is an example of a/an:
cacophony
cadence
conflict
convention
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A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved.
sonnet
villanelle
aubade
ode
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Understatement is the opposite of
satire
hyperbole
irony
comic relief