Quiz 4: Literary Criticism Terminology

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables, followed by different consonant sounds in proximate words

• Assonance
• Anachronism
• Anthropomorphism
• Conceit
• Enjambment

Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution.

• Invective
• Motif

• Pathos

• Satire

• Trite

Something outside of its proper historical time period.

• Anachronism
• Anthropomorphism
• Assonance
• Conceit
• Enjambment

Not interesting or effective because of being used too often: not fresh or original.

• Invective

• Motif

• Pathos

• Satire

• Trite

A quality in a work or a portion thereof that makes the reader experience pity, sorrow, or tenderness.

• Invective

• Motif

• Pathos

• Satire

• Trite

A literary genre or mode that uses irony, wit, and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity’s vices and foibles.

• Invective

• Motif

• Pathos

• Satire

• Trite

Attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being.

• Anthropomorphism
• Anachronism
• Assonance
• Conceit
• Enjambment

A poetic statement that spans more than one line.

• Enjambment
• Anachronism
• Anthropomorphism
• Assonance
• Conceit

A recurrent, unifying element in an artistic work, such as an image, symbol, character type, action, idea, object, or phrase.

• Invective

• Motif

• Pathos

• Satire

• Trite

A figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor.

• Conceit
• Anachronism
• Anthropomorphism
• Assonance
• Enjambment