College of the Desert - Lit 1B Test 1
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| show | A recurring character type, plot, symbol, or theme of seemingly universal significance.
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| Paraphrasing. | show 🗑
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| show | An indirect reference to some character or event in literature, history, or mythology that enriches the meaning of the passage.
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| show | The person created by the writer to be the speaker of the poem or story. The persona is not usually identical to the writer.
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| show | Involves a major discrepancy between the words spoken or written and the intended meaning.
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| show | An explanation of a literary work developed by analyzing details images, meanings and comparisons derived from a close reading of the text.
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| Analysis. | show 🗑
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| show | The attitude a writer conveys toward his or her subject and audience. In poetry, this attitude is sometimes called the voice.
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| Irony. | show 🗑
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| Epiphany. | show 🗑
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| Connotation. | show 🗑
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| Denotation. | show 🗑
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| show | An imaginative comparison that makes use of the connotative values of words.
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| show | A verbal comparison in which a similarity is expressed directly, using like or as.
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| Personification. | show 🗑
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| Imagery. | show 🗑
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| show | An image that becomes so suggestive that it takes on much more meaning than its descriptive value.
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| Paradox. | show 🗑
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| show | An extreme paradox in which two words having opposite meanings are juxtaposed, as in "deafening silence" or "elaborately simple."
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| Comparing/Contrasting. | show 🗑
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| show | The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables in a regular pattern.
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| show | Similar or identical sounds between words, usually the end sounds in lines of verse.
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| show | Recurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. The unit is referred to as a foot.
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| Iambic. | show 🗑
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| show | One of the four basic patterns of stress--which consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.(Funny, double)
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| Anapest. | show 🗑
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| show | One of the four basic patterns of stress--which consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones (merrily, syllable)
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| Alliteration. | show 🗑
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| Assonance. | show 🗑
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| show | Close repetition of the same consonant sounds followed by different vowel sounds. At the end of lines of poetry, this pattern produces a half-rhyme.
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| Closed-Form. | show 🗑
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| show | Using lines of varying length and avoids prescribed patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
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| show | Two rhymed lines of poetry.
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| Quatrain. | show 🗑
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| Sonnet. | show 🗑
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| show | A poem generally has no rhyme scheme and no basic meter for the entire selection. Rhyme and rhythm do occur, of course, but not in fixed patterns that are required of stanzas and sonnets.
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| show | Poems that convey meaning by the way they look on the page; also called shaped poetry.
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| Inexact Synonyms. | show 🗑
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| show | Words that have the same pronunciation but a different meaning and spelling.
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| Imprecise Adjectives. | show 🗑
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| Malapropisms. | show 🗑
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| show | Sentences can be disconcerting if all the words do not have the same emotional association.
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| show | True.
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| show | True.
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| show | False.
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| Understanding the literal meaning is less important than the ability to interpret a poem's meaning. | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| show | True.
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| Learning to understand poetry involves asking questions and then speculating/researching until you come up with satisfying answers. | show 🗑
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| show | False.
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| The tone of a piece of writing often differs from the tone of the voice speaking. | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| In no other form of literature are words so important as in poetry. | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| The most common figures of speech--metaphor, simile, and personification--appear in our everyday language. | show 🗑
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| A metaphor is defines by its connective words, "like" and "as" | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| When a human thing is made to sound non-human, it is personification. | show 🗑
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| show | False.
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| show | True.
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| Two words that have the opposite juxtaposed meanings is an example of an oxymoron. | show 🗑
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| show | False.
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| Poetic forms can be divided into those that use sound effects, those that involve length and organization of lines and those that have artistically manipulated word order. | show 🗑
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| show | True.
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| show | True.
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| show | True.
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| show | True.
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| show | False.
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| show | True.
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| Figurative language describes writers manipulating the war the words are arranged into sentences. | show 🗑
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| show | False.
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