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Eng10H Literary 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| EPITHET | An adjective or term used to characterize a person or a thing, as in Jack the |
| ESSAY | any short prose work that discusses a point or attempts to persuade its readers |
| EXPOSITION | That part of the play or story in which essential background information is given to the reader or audience. |
| EUPHEMISM | a mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or |
| EUPHONY | A pleasant combination of sounds—“Round and round the spicy downs the |
| FABLE | a brief tale, often using animal characters, which illustrates some moral truth |
| FARCE | any comic play deriving its humor from ridiculous or improbable situation, one |
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | (also called figures of speech) the use of words apart |
| FLASHBACK | a scene inserted into a film, novel, story or play showing events which |
| FREE VERSE | Poetry which differs from conventional verse forms in being “free” |
| FUSTIAN | bombastic or pompously ornate language |
| FORESHADOWING | a device in which the author drops hints or otherwise prepares |
| GENRE | a specific literary type or class identified by form and treatment, such as epic, |
| HISTORICAL PRESENT | use of the present tense to describe past events |
| EPITHET | An adjective or term used to characterize a person or a thing, as in Jack the |
| ESSAY | any short prose work that discusses a point or attempts to persuade its readers |
| EXPOSITION | That part of the play or story in which essential background information is given to the reader or audience. |
| EUPHEMISM | a mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or |
| EUPHONY | A pleasant combination of sounds—“Round and round the spicy downs the |
| FABLE | a brief tale, often using animal characters, which illustrates some moral truth |
| FARCE | any comic play deriving its humor from ridiculous or improbable situation, one |
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | (also called figures of speech) the use of words apart |
| FLASHBACK | a scene inserted into a film, novel, story or play showing events which |
| FREE VERSE | Poetry which differs from conventional verse forms in being “free” |
| FUSTIAN | bombastic or pompously ornate language |
| FORESHADOWING | a device in which the author drops hints or otherwise prepares |
| GENRE | a specific literary type or class identified by form and treatment, such as epic, |
| HISTORICAL PRESENT | use of the present tense to describe past events |
| EPITHET | An adjective or term used to characterize a person or a thing, as in Jack the |
| ESSAY | any short prose work that discusses a point or attempts to persuade its readers |
| EXPOSITION | That part of the play or story in which essential background information is given to the reader or audience. |
| EUPHEMISM | a mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or |
| EUPHONY | A pleasant combination of sounds—“Round and round the spicy downs the |
| FABLE | a brief tale, often using animal characters, which illustrates some moral truth |
| FARCE | any comic play deriving its humor from ridiculous or improbable situation, one |
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | (also called figures of speech) the use of words apart |
| FLASHBACK | a scene inserted into a film, novel, story or play showing events which |
| FREE VERSE | Poetry which differs from conventional verse forms in being “free” |
| FUSTIAN | bombastic or pompously ornate language |
| FORESHADOWING | a device in which the author drops hints or otherwise prepares |
| GENRE | a specific literary type or class identified by form and treatment, such as epic, |
| HISTORICAL PRESENT | use of the present tense to describe past events |
| HOMILY | |
| HYPERBOLE | |
| IMAGERY | the sensory details in a literary work. Whether literal or figurative, an |
| INTERIOR MONOLOGUE | |
| INVERSION | |
| IRONY | |
| LITOTES | a form of understatement in which an idea is expressed by the denial of its |
| LYRIC | a poem, often short, presented by a single speaker expressing basics feelings or |
| MELODRAMA | a play based on a sensational, romantic plot with emphasis on |
| METAPHOR | a figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two |
| MIXED METAPHOR | a figure of speech in which one term is substituted for another |
| MOOD | the atmosphere or feeling developed in a literary work: light-hearted, romantic, |
| NARRATIVE POEM | a poem that tells story or relates a series of events |
| OMNISCIENT | “all-knowing” point of view in which the author shifts from the |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning; an effective |
| OXYMORON | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms |
| PARADOX | a statement which, though it seems self-contradictory, contains a basic |
| PARODY | a satirical imitation of the style of another written work |
| PATHETIC FALLACY | refers to the description of inanimate objects as though they |
| PERSONIFICATION | the attribution of human characteristics or feelings to nonhuman |
| PLEONASM | unnecessary repetition or needless addition of words to convey an idea— |
| QUATRAIN | any stanza of four lines, regardless of line length, meter, or rhyme pattern |
| RHYME | repetition of similar or identical sounds at regular intervals, usually the |
| SATIRE | the literary art of belittling a subject by making it seem ridiculous and evoking |
| SIMILE | a direct comparison between two essentially different items indicated by a |
| THEME | the central idea or thesis or a literary work |
| TONE | the attitude of the writer toward his subject and his audience, revealed through |
| TRAGIC FLAW | the defeat in the tragic hero which leads to his downfall |
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