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English Vocab Review
For Units 9-12 of APENG
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is the rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work? | Meter |
| "The pen is mightier than the sword." What is that an example of? | Metonymy |
| What do you call it when is just one person speaking for a long time? | Monologue |
| What is an element or idea that recurs throughout a work of literature? | Motif |
| That judgy voice telling the story in Pride and Prejudice | Narrator |
| When something is said but it doesn't really fit in the conversation | Non Sequitur |
| A verse with eight lines | Octave |
| That one TV show you watched about the house that kept receiving creepy leter. An - to a house. | Ode |
| The little "sound effects" in the comics | Onomatopeia |
| "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!" | Oxymoron |
| Contradictory to common sense but still with some truth | Paradox |
| what is it called when two or more elements in a sentence or series of sentences have the same grammatical structure? | Parallel |
| What is the juicy part of a story? | Plot |
| What is it called when the style or work of an author is imitated for laughs and giggles? | Parody |
| Is a poem or story that uses the shepherd life to contrast it with the corruptive city life | Pastoral |
| What is it called when you use emotions and feelings to convey something? | Pathos |
| What is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet? | Pentameter |
| When you give people attributes to inanimate things | Personification |
| Someone's perspective | Point of View |
| What is the repetition of conjunctions in close succession? | Polysyndeton |
| Introduction to a literary work called? | Prologue |
| Who is the main character in a story? | Protagonist |
| George Orwell isn't his real name, that is a - | Pseudonym |
| When you use a word intended to have double meaning for comical purposes | Pun |
| What is a unit or group of four lines of verse? | Quatrain |
| What's it called when a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation? | Rhapsody |
| Can you imagine a life without ice cream? | Rhetorical Question |
| What is the name of the way rhymes are arranged in a poem? | Rhyme Scheme |
| An ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech. | Rhythm |
| What's the name of the literary movement which focused on inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual? | Romanticism |
| What's the name of a novel in which real persons or actual events figure under disguise? | Roman a Clef |
| What's it called when a literary work is made to ridicule or scorn? | Satire |
| Thirty-nine-line poem featuring the repetition of end-words in six stanzas | Sestina |
| What is a stanza or poem with six lines? | Sestet |
| Oceania is the - in 1984 | Setting |
| When you compare two things that are nothing alike using words such as "like" or "as" | Simile |
| Hamlet speaking to himself for Lord knows how long, what is that called? | Soliloquy |
| A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme. | Sonnet |
| What is the transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words called? | Spoonerism |
| What are the directions or descriptions written in a play called? | Stage Directions |
| What's it called an author assumes a character in a written work? | Persona |
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