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Hrs 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhymed words in a stanza or generalized throughout a poem, expressed in alphabetical terms. |
| rhythm | recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals, similar to meter. |
| rising action | part of a drama which begins with the exposition. |
| romance | Tales of exciting adventures written in the vernacular instead of Latin. |
| saga | a story of the exploits of a hero, or the story of a family told through several generations. |
| satire | a piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work. |
| scansion | a close, critical reading of a poem, examining the work for meter. |
| setting | the time and place in which a story unfolds. |
| short story | a short fictional narrative |
| simile | a figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found. |
| soliloquy | in drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud. |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of 14 lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed. |
| spondee | a metrical pattern characterized by to or more successively placed accented syllables. |
| stanza | a major subdivision in a poem |
| stereotype | an author's method of treating a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group |
| style | author's use of figurative language, diction, sound effects, and other literary devices. |
| suspense | The reader's identification with and concern for the welfare of a convincing and sympathetic character, and an anticipation of violence. |
| symbolism | a device in literature where an object represents an idea. |
| synecdoche | one sensory experience described in terms of another sensory experience. |
| theatre of the absurd | a drama based on an absurd situation. |
| theme | gives the literary work unity |
| tone | one expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject. |
| tragedy | a type of drama which is pre-eminently the story of one person, the hero. |
| trochee | a metrical pattern in a line of poetry characterized by one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. |
| understatement | a statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant. |
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