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literary terms 102
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complimentary in structure or in meaning. | parallelism |
| The humorous imitation of a work of literature, art, or music. | Parody |
| The quality in a work of literature that arouses a feeling of pity or compassion in the reader | Pathos |
| a figure of speech in which somthing non-human is given human qualities. | personification |
| The vantage point from which a narrative is told. | Point of view |
| The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. | Protagonist |
| The use of a word or phrase to suggest 2 or more meanings at the same time, or the use of 2 different words or phrases that sound alike. | Pun |
| Usually a stanza or poem of four lines | Quatrain |
| The attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without sentimentalizing or idealizing it. | realism |
| A work, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza. | Refrain |
| A prayer, poem, or song for the repose of the dead. | requiem |
| The art of using language for persuasion | rhetoric |
| The repitition of sounds in 2 or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in the poem. | Rhyme |
| The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern. | Rhythm |
| A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in western culture during most of the 19nth century, beggining as a revolt against Classicism. | Romanticism |
| A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanities in general | Satire |
| The analysis of verse in terms of meter. | Scansion |
| A 6-line poem or stanza | Sestet |
| A figure of speech comparing 2 essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison, such as like or as or than, or ressembles. | Similie |
| An autobiographical accoutn written by a former slave | Slave narrative |
| An extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage. | Sililoque |
| a lyric poem of 14 lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. | Sonnet |
| A folk song, usually on a religious matter. | Spiritual |
| A unit of poem that is longer than a single line. | Stanza |
| The style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a characters thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them. | Stream of conciousness |
| A writers characteristic way of writing, determined by the choice of words, the arrangement of words in sentences, and the relationship of the sentences to one another. | Style |
| Any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for somthing larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value. | Symbol |
| a figure of speech in which part of a thing is used to stand for or suggest the whole. | Synecdoche |
| the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to convey in a literary work. | theme |
| A phiolosophy which holds that basic truths can be reached through intuition rather than throguh reason. | transcendentlism |
| A poetic foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. | Trochee |
| a restrained statement in which less is said than is meant. | understatement |
| A type of novel which arose from the technilogical revolution preceding world war I, depiciting a perfect society acheived through science. | Utopian Novel |
| The everyday spoken language of people in a particular locality | vernacular. |
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