Question 1

Propaganda

Accepted Answer

Work that aims to influence an audience about a debatable position, not through rational or supported appeals but through: emotional manipulation, the selective use/omission of facts, spin, or any fallacious techniques. Negative connotations.

Question 2

Prose poem

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A blending of prose and poetry, usually resembling prose in its use of sentences without line breaks, and poetry in its use of quintessentially poetic devices such as figurative language. A prose poem makes traditional genre distinctions problematic.

Question 3

Protagonist

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The main character in a work; often a hero or heroine, but not always.

Question 4

Pun

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A play on words that derives its humor from the replacement of one word with another that has a similar pronunciation or spelling but a different meaning. It can also derive humor from the use of a single word that has more than one meaning.Earnest/Ernest

Question 5

Quatrain

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A four-line stanza.
example:
Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.

Question 6

Realism

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Describing a literary technique, the goal of which is to render work that feels true, immediate, natural, and realistic.
example:
Realism characterizes Hemingway’s technique in “Soldier’s Home” (p. 1447)

Question 7

Refrain

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A line, lines, or a stanza in a poem that repeat(s) at intervals.
example:
“’twas a famous victory”
This refrain appears, slightly modified each time, in Robert Southey’s “The Battle of
Blenheim” (p. 1417).

Question 8

Resolution

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The working out of a plot’s conflicts, following the climax.

Question 9

Reversal

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When, in a narrative, the protagonist’s fortunes take an unforeseen turn.
example:
In Antigone, Creon’s reversal of fortune begins when his son, Haemon, commits suicide upon hearing of Antigone’s death (p. 1362).

Question 10

Rhetorical Question

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A question asked for stylistic effect and emphasis to make a point
rather than to solicit an answer.
example:
Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?

Question 11

End Rhyme

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A rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry is called an end rhyme.
End rhyme:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
— William Wordsworth, “London, 1802” p. 1099

Question 12

Internal Rhyme

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A rhyme that occurs within a line is called an internal rhyme.
Internal rhyme:
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the
tingling strings.
— D. H. Lawrence, “Piano,” p. 1111

Question 13

Near or Slant Rhyme

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A rhyme that pairs sounds that are similar but not exactly the same is called a near rhyme or a slant rhyme.
Near rhyme or slant rhyme:
The alphabet is searched for letters soft,
To try a word before it can be wrought.

Question 14

Eye Rhyme

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A rhyme that only works because the words look the same is called an eye rhyme or a sight rhyme.
Eye rhyme:
“Sisters and brothers, little Maid,
How many may you be?”
“How many? Seven in all,” she said,
And wondering looked at me.

Question 15

Rhyme

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The repetition of the same (or similar) vowel or consonant sounds or constructions. Rhyme often follows a pattern, called a rhyme scheme.

Question 16

Rhythm

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The general pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 17

YOU WILL DO AMAZING!!!

Accepted Answer

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE AMAZING!!!

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