Week #15 literary/rhetorical vocabulary quiz

anapest

• The sister city of Budepest, Hungary.
• A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
• A metrical foot in poetry that consists of three stressed syllables followed by three stressed syllables.
• A metrical foot in poetry that consists of one stressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables.

Legend

• A story about a hero having a journey.
• A story, often exaggerated, handed down about an antihero or a place, often based on fiction.
• A story, often exaggerated, handed down about a hero or a place, often based on fact.
• 1990s sci-fi movie

non-sequitur

• A conclusion or statement that does not follow logically from the previous argument or statement.
• A conclusion or statement that follows logically from the previous argument or statement.
• Imaginary rings next to the equator.
• A conclusion or statement that follows from the original argument or statement.

refrain

• A phrase or line that recurs throughout a poem or a song.
• A phrase or line that ends with an exclamatory statement.
• A train that carries only referees.
• A phrase or line that occurs throughout a novel or a movie.

scapegoat

• In literature, a character made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
• In literature, a character made to create the blame for others or to stand in their place.
• A goat wearing a cape trying to flee.
• In literature, a character who blames others and then suffers in their place.

Stanza

• A group of lines in a poem.
• A group of lines in a novel.
• A group of lines in a screenplay.
• A group of lines standing on their own.

Trochee

• A rare breed of turkeys found only in April on the Himalayan Mountains.
• A metrical foot of poetry that consists of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.
• A metrical line of poetry that consists of two stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable.
• A metrical stanza of poetry that consists of three stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.

compound sentence

• A sentence containing two independent clauses joined by a comma, a conjunction, or a semicolon.
• A sentence containing one indepndent clause joined by an anapest.
• A sentence containing two dependent clauses joined by a comma, a conjunction, or a semicolon.
• A sentence with a really bad headache.

dramatic irony

• A situation where the reader or audience is unaware of something the character(s) are aware of too.
• Reciting shakespeare while ironing.
• A situation where the reader or audience is oblivious of something the character(s) are also unaware of.
• A situation where the reader or audience is aware of something the character(s) are not.

foot

• In poetry a rhythmic unit containing only stressed syllables.
• In poetry a rhythmic unit containing two or more syllables.
• That thing at the end of your leg.
• In poetry a rhythmic unit containing only unstressed syllables.