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Half
a league,
half
a league/
Half
a league
on
ward contains what kind of metric foot?
dactyl
anapest
trochee
iamb
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"When she saw the monster she was putrified" contains an example of:
malapropism
metaphor
spoonerism
hyperbole
3
A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, written in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abcd
free verse
villanelle
ballad
dramatic monologue
4
The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:
reverse
spaghetti
shiftinio
volta
5
All of the following are stressed in Romanticism except:
the sublime
rationalism
the individual
emotions
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A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.
epistrophe
heroic couplet
caeusura
masculine rhyme
7
Ridiculing writing , criticizing the corruption or foolishness of society, intended to improve.
tongue-in-cheek
Parody
Satire
analogy
8
A soliloquy in a Shakespearean play is an example of a/an:
cadence
cacophony
conflict
convention
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masculine rhyme is
rhyme of one syllable
slant rhyme
approximate rhyme
rhyme of two syllables
10
Poetry characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.
Romantic
Metaphysical
Lyric
Victorian
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Understatement is the opposite of
irony
satire
comic relief
hyperbole
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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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A six line stanza is a:
sestet
sestina
septet
spondee
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According to Aristotle, the release of emotions that the audience of a tragedy experiences.
Epic
consonance
catharsis
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
consonance
Haiku
blank verse
poetry
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A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson is a:
magical realism
parody
paradox
parable
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Background information in a literary work.
prologue
exciting force
rising action
exposition
18
"Get your butt over here" is an example of
parallelism
metonomy
synecdoche
paraphrase
19
Quality of being intentionally unclear.
paradox
ambiguity
allusion
oxymoron
20
Antimetabole is a literary device in which a phrase is repeated but in reverse order. Same as:
onomatopoeia
vignette
parody
chiasmus
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A comic imitation of a work that ridicules the original.
paradox
parody
parable
pathos
22
The word "faithful" mimics the beat of what metrical foot?
spondee
dactyl
iamb
trochee
23
A kind of comedy that relies on exaggerated or improbable situations or sexual innuendo.
parody
farce
satire
relief
24
An anapest is:
An accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable
Two accented syllables followed by an unaccented syllable.
Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
An unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable
25
A rhetorical question:
does not anticipate an answer
expects a negative answer
presumes an erroneous answer
is personal
26
A quotation placed at the beginning of a novel or other document.
parable
epigraph
non sequitur
epigram
27
Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality such as an ode.
lyric
epic
free verse
narrative
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Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:
aside
soliloquy
stage direction
monologue
29
Moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge
epithet
epiphany
climax
epistrophe
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Like the downward smoke, the slender stream/Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem
slant rhyme
euphony
euphemism
cacophony
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A love poem set at dawn which bids farewell to the beloved.
ode
sonnet
aubade
villanelle
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A poem that laments the dead or a loss-
ballad
lyric
elegy
sonnet
33
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
hyperbole
cacophony
euphony
connotation
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Scansion
A direct comparison
Analysis of a poem's rhyme and meter
the grammatical structure of prose
highly structured poetic form of 39 lines
35
How now brown cow is an example of:
feminine rhyme
assonance
alliteration
consonance
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"Little strokes/Fell great oaks" is an example of an:
euphony
epigraph
epigram
epistrophe
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figure of speech- replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it
metonymy
symbol
simile
synedoche
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antecedent
an abrupt, disappointing end
a reference in literature a work of art or other writing
the deliberate choice of a style of language
the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers
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The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life-a heartbeat.
anapest
trochee
dactyl
iamb
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Genre of poetry characterized by short lyric poems by courtiers with a theme of "carpe diem."
Romantic
Cavalier
Metaphysical
Beat
41
Highly structured poem: six stanzas-five tercets, a quatrain and repeating first and third line
villanelle
sonnet
ballad
elegy
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"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats
anaphora
aubade
anapest
apostrophe
43
"You can take the girl out of the country but you cannot take the country out of the girl" is a
juxtaposition
Caesura
paradox
chiasmus
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A type of poem which extols the virtues of and ideal place or time.
Pastoral
dramatic monologue
ballad
Idyll
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"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "s:he was no saint" are examples of
epigram
litotes
metaphors
metonomy