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A&IL
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Accentual Meter? | Stressed rhythmic structure of poetic lines. |
| What does Agon mean? | In Greek, meaning "struggle"; found in protagonist and antagonist; in comedy, a formal debate. |
| What is Alexandrine? | A twelve-syllable line written in iambic hexameter |
| What does Allegorical mean? | A narrative that is extended metaphor; the elements of the narrative carry significance on a literal and a figurative level. |
| What is Alliteration? | Repetition of initial consonants in consecutive words or in words close to each other. Bilbo Baggins of Bag-End. |
| What is Allusion? | In a literary work, a reference to a person, place, or thing from another literary work or from history. |
| What is Anapest? | Metrical foot used in poetry consisting of two short syllables followed by a long syllable. |
| What is an Antagonist? | The one who struggles against or contends with the protagonist. Smaug: the antagonist. Bilbo: the Protagonist. |
| What is Apostrophe? | Direct Address to someone or something not present, such as an imaginary or an abstract quality; often introduced by the exclamation "O." |
| After the introduction, as story will have a (blank) which causes a problem for the rest of the novel. | Complication |
| (Blank) essays are usually autobiographical and describe an event or series of events. | Narrative |
| What do expository essays do? | Explain, clarify or describe ideas. |
| form poetry is that which is easily recognizable or identifiable based on the poem’s major structural elements such as its meter or rhyme scheme. | Closed |
| form poems are those whose form is not easily identifiable or recognizable and may not fall into one specific traditional poetic form | Open |
| What is Polysyndeton | Using conjunctions to connect words in sentences more often than is usually done: Frodo and Sam and Gollum went to Mount Doom in Mordor to destroy the One Ring |
| What is Asyndeton? | Leaving out conjunctions, but still staying grammatically correct: "We must walk, get away from here, hurry. My precious!" |
| What is a Bildungsroman story? | Where the main character's ideas are changed through the story: Bilbo Baggins' character changes from that of a normal hobbit as he goes on an adventure, and becomes courageous as he encounters dangers with the dwarves in The Hobbit. |
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