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*CR Lit Terms Test 7
Words for Literary Terms Test #7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| parody | comical inimation of a serious piece with the intent of ridiculing the author or his work |
| pastoral | a poem, play, or story that celebrates and idealizes the simple life of shephers and sheperdesses. |
| pathos | the quality of a literary work that appeals to the reader's or viewer's emotions--especially pity, compassion, and sympathy. |
| personification | the attribution of human characteristics to an animal or to an inanimate object |
| point of view | perspective of the speaker or narrator in a literary work |
| protagonist | the main or principal character in a work; often considered the hero or heroine. |
| pun | humorous play on words that have several meanings or words that sound the same but have different meanings |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using the word like, as, or so |
| soliloquy | a character's speech to the audience, in which emotions and ideas are revealed |
| sonnet, English or Shakespearean | fourteen-line love poem in iambic pentameter. rhyme scheme is abab, cdcde, efef, gg |
| stanza | grouping of poetic lines; a deliberate arrangement of lines of poetry |
| stock character | a stereotypical character; a type. the audience expects the character to have certain characteristics |
| stream of consciousness | form of writing which replicates the way the human mind works. |
| structure | a particular way in which parts of a written work are combined |
| style | the way a writer uses language. takes into account word choice, diction, figures of speech, and so on. |
| symbol | a concrete object, scene, or actin which has a deeper significance because it is associated with something else, often an important idea of theme in the work. |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech where one part represents the entire object, or vice versa |
| syntax | the way in which words, phrases, and sentences are ordered and connected |
| theme | the central idea of a literary work |
| tone | refers to the author's attitude toward the subject |
| tongue in cheek | expressing a thought in a way that appears to be sincere, but is actually joking |
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