Week #14 literary/rhetorical terms quiz

allegory

• a poem specific to the Romantic era consisting of fourteen lines

• a sub-genre of horror films

• a concrete presentation of an abstract idea with at least two levels of meaning

• a concrete presentation of a concrete idea with at least two levels of meaning

dissonance

• the use of structured meter in a poem

• pleasing relaxing sounds

• a measure of distance

• harsh discordant sounds

complex sentence

• a sentence with one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses

• a sentence with two dependent clauses

• a sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause

• a sentence with two independent clauses

flat character

• character that lacks depth and complexity

• a character that has depth and complexity

• a character that has been hit by a train

• a character with hubris

jargon

• the use of vague words, phrases by a writer to a situation or profesion

• the use of metrical units in prose

• the use of specific words, phrases by a writer particular to a situation or profesion

• a two headed beast from The Hobbit

narrative

• the specific use of lines and stanzas

• an explanatory form of essay or poetry

• the story or the telling of a story, or an account of a situation or event

• non-fiction

quatrain

• four couplets

• a stanza containing four lines that may or may not rhyme

• a stanza containing eight lines that may or may not rhyme

• four stanzas of rhyming couplets

scansion

• a poetic term used to divide feet

• a type of mansion

• the analysis of prose meter using symbols

• the analysis of poetic meter using symbols

spondee

• a metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables

• a metrical foot that consists of two unstressed syllables

• a metrical foot that consists of four stressed syllables

• a rare mushroom fungi typically found in the roots of Ponderosa Pines.

topic

• A stringed instrument of the Medieval era

• the theme of a work of literature

• the subject that a work of literature deals with

• the tone of a work of literature