Week #17 Literary/rhetorical vocabulary quiz

antecedent

• a word in a sentence which another word refers to.
• Married to my Uncle Cedent.
• an adjective in a sentence that comes after a verb.
• a verb phrase that appears at the beginning of a dramtaic play.

epic (in poetic terms)

• a short poem consisting of two stanzas with a rhyming couplet at the end.
• a long poem usually about a false deity that prays upon humankind full of grim metaphors.
• a short poem consisting of three stanzas of two unrhymed lines per stanza.
• a long poem written about a hero who is elevated to mythic proportions.

limited narrator (in literature)

• third person point of view where the narrator recounts the story through a single character.
• first person piint of view where the narrator inhabits the mind of many characters.
• a narrow minded person with minimal vision telling stories.
• second person point of view where the narrator tells the story through a deceased character.

rhetorical device

• techniques used by authors to show agony and defeat.
• techniques of parables that are used as propaganda.
• techniques of literature that are used to persuade.
• techniques that have no answer.

sentimentalism (in literature)

• works of literature that play convincingly on the personalities of the audience.
• In a rom com when they live "happily ever after".
• works of literature that play unconvincingly on the emotions of the audience.
• works of literature that are from the post modernist era that deal with chivalry and nobility.

meiosis

• deliberate understatement usually for comic effect
• cell division in bacterium resulting in twelve cells
• deliberate overstatement usually for dramatic effect.
• deliberate statemets that rally an audience for a cause.

litotes

• a type of overstatement that involves making a negative point about a positive statement.
• large bags used to carry groceries, shoes, or houshold objects.
• a type of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by negating its opposite.
• a type of oversimplification of the facts that employs comic timing and rhyming couplets.

structural irony

• when an architect designs a building and everyone knows how he is going to build it.
• a work that has a discrepency throughout the entire work; e.g an unreliable narrator.
• a work that has a tragic flaw throughout and and alwasy end in death and despair.
• a work that has disproportionate amount of adjectives, nouns, and verbs, to seem verbose and trite.

free verse (in poetic terms)

• poetry that lacks a regular rhythm, and uses very long rhymed ending words.
• poetry that lacks a regular meter, doesn't rhyme, and uses irregular line lengths.
• a hit song made popular in the 1970s by Lynard Skynard.
• poetry that lacks form, funtion, and regular stanzas.

continuous form

• a long s-shaped curve used as a template for freeways in America.
• in poetry lines are divided by theme, mood, or not at all and continue into each other without division.
• in poetry lines are divided by distinct stanzas with rhythm and meter.
• in poetry lines are unrhymed and grouped according to meter and rhythm.