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HL3 Exam Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| mock epic | form of satire that adopts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject |
| Shakespearean sonnet | consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables in iambic pentameter. abab, cdcd, efef, gg. |
| lyric | poet expresses an emotion or illuminates some life principle |
| kenning | figurative compound expression in place of a name or thing in Old English poetry. |
| allegory | a story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings |
| metaphysical | based on speculative or abstract reasoning, abstract or theoretical, abstruse |
| mystery play | medieval drama based on scriptural events especially in life of Jesus |
| pun | a play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time. |
| riddle | question/statement requiring thought to answer/understand; conundrum |
| frame story | narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales |
| caesura | pause or break in poetry or music |
| essay | short, literary composition on a single-subject, usually presenting the author's personal view |
| image | a mental picture of something that is not real or present |
| foreshadowing | method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come |
| refrain | a phrase; verse, group of verse repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza |
| epic | major work dealing with an important theme; in poetry, a long work dealing with the actions of gods and heroes. |
| paradox | situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not. |
| Italian sonnet | verse form that typically refers to a concept of unattainable love (Petrachan sonnet) |
| soliloquy | character alone speaks his or her thoughts out loud. |
| end rhyme | rhyme occurring at ends of verse lines |
| scop | bard, poet, Old English poet |
| sonnet | lyric poem of 14 lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed |
| conceit | a far-fetched simile or metaphor that occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things. |
| morality play | drama in the 15th and 16th centuries using allegorical characters to portray the soul's struggle to achieve salvation. |
| alliteration | repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a group |
| iambic pentameter | metrical pattern of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (iambic) with five iambic feet in a row |
| satire | literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work, arouses contempt |
| miracle play | medieval drama portraying events in the lives of saints and martyrs. |
| epigrammatic | like an epigram, clever or amusing |
| romance | medieval age tale of exciting adventures written in the vernacular (French) instead of Latin, tales of chivalry or amorous adventure. |
| blank verse | poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| simile | comparison between two unlike things |
| ballad | a story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung. |
| alexandrine | line of English verse composed in iambic pentameter, usually with a caesura after the third foot. |
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