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ENGLISH EXAM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the three classical forms of literature? | poetry, prose, and drama |
| Fiction, horror, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, biography, essays, and nonfiction are all… | genres of prose literature |
| Sonnets, ballads, haikus, odes, and elegy are all… | genres (forms) of poetry |
| Typically we refer to a specific type of prose literature as a… | genre |
| Typically we refer to a specific type of poetry as a… | form of poetry |
| Poetry is written in… | verse |
| gives a poem structure through the means of grouping lines together; separated from one another by an empty line | stanzas |
| the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem | rhyme scheme |
| Each rhyme gets its own what? | letter |
| the use of words that rhyme exactly the same, generally appearing at the end of the line | True Rhyme |
| when the sound of words are similar but not the same | Slant Rhyme/ Half Rhyme |
| occurs in the middle of a line | Internal Rhyme |
| a recognizable rhythm in a line of verse; a pattern of regularly recurring stressed and unstressed syllables | meter |
| a measuring unit in poetry which measures the syllabic meter | foot |
| one standard type of foot in poetry; has two syllables and the inflection pattern of those two syllables is unstressed, stressed | iamb |
| one of the most common forms of meter; each line of poetry has five iambs (a total of 10 syllables per line) uses the iamb inflection pattern of recurring unstressed, stressed | iambic pentameter |
| any poetry that does have a metrical pattern (usually iambic pentameter), but does NOT have rhyme | blank verse |
| patterns that have common meaning for an entire culture, sometimes the entire human race; can be a characterization, a symbol, a situation, or a setting | archetypes |
| using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful, figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and allusions, go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new insights | figurative language |
| makes a comparison showing similarities between two unlike things with the help of the words "like" or "as" or "than | simile |
| makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics | metaphor |
| a thing, an idea or an animal given human attributes | personification |
| an exaggeration | hyperbole |
| reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | allusion |
| a direct address to a thing as though it were a listening person, or a direct address to an absent person as if they were present | apostrophe |
| a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | metonymy |
| the yoking together of incongruous or contradictory terms | oxymoron |
| a statement that appears to be contradictory but reveals a kind of truth | paradox |
| a figure of speech in which a part represents a whole | synecdoche |
| What are the five types of imagery? | Visual Imagery (Sight), Auditory Imagery (Sound), Tactile Imagery (Touch), Olfactory Imagery (Smell), and Gustatory Imagery (Taste) |
| using a person, object, situation, or action to stand for something different or it is; a symbol may be read both literally and metaphorically | symbolism |
| literary devices used to engage one's sense of hearing | sound devices |
| the repetition of the same sound, usually a consonant, at the beginning of a word | alliteration |
| repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in nearby words, such as the "ee" sound in easy to please | assonance |
| repetition of consonant sounds in two or more successive words | consonance |
| words derived from sounds that suggest sounds | onomatopoeia |
| repeating the same words or phrases or sounds to emphasize an idea | repetition |
| harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds; the use of words with the consonants b, k, and p, for example, produce harsher sounds | cacophonous |
| pleasant sounding; the use of consonants f and v, or the more liquid I, m, and n helps create euphonious words | euphonious |
| the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line | enjambment |
| attitude of the writer toward a subject or audience | tone |
| the atmosphere of a literary piece; emotional situation that surrounds the reader | mood |
| language appealing to any of the five senses | imagery |
| main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly | theme |
| the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter | parallelism |
| a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings | pun |
| the close association of an image or sensation perceived by one of the senses with that received by another | synesthesia |
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