Literary/rhetorical vocabulary week#1

Tone in literature

• A writers attitude about a subject/topic. It can be serious/comical;informal/formal;sarcastic.
• A writer's intuition about their writing.
• A short buzzing noise.
• A writer's feelings about the reader. It can be comical, sarcastic, ironic, formal, or informal.

Chiasmus

• A literary or rhetorical phrase that is modified to create dramatic repitition.
• A literary or rhetorical figure in which words, grammatical constructions are repeated in reverse order.
• A literary or rhetorical figure that uses iambic pentameter and cacophonic phrasing.
• A literary or rhetorical figure that resembles a haiku.

Parody

• A work that closely imitates the style of 18th century European literature.
• A work that closely imitates the style and content of dramtic irony.
• A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect or ridicule.
• A show on Netflix

Meiosis

• A trope employing deliberate ironic effect for a sarcastic tone.
• A trope employing deliberate sarcasm for comic or ironic effect.
• cell division
• A trope employing deliberate understantement ususally for comic or ironic effect.

Which one of these is NOT a pun

• I've been to the dentist many times, so I know the drill.
• A chicken farmer's favorite car is a coupe.
• She had a photographic memory but never developed it.
• It's raining cats and dogs.

Euphony

• The occurance of metrical sounds
• The occurance of pleasant sounds
• The occurance of harsh sounds
• The occurance of popular sounds

Which of the following is not an example of alliteration?

• Johny just joked because he is the class jester.

• Five easy pieces, four difficult parts.

• The wind whispered wontonly and called a whispy, willowy song.

• "Dang it Desi!" "You're a delightful doofus of a delectable kind!"

idiom

• a structure or building meant to house farm animals

• an expression of sarcasm meant to be humorous or deragoatory

• an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of its constituent elements

• an expression whose meaning is totally predictable and cliche

Dilemna

• A situation in which a character has to choose between two equally good or two equally bad things.
• A situation in which a character has to choose between love and loyalty.
• A situation in which a character has to choose between tow equally ironic situations.
• A piece of paper that you get when you graduate.

Apostrophe

• A figure of speech in which a thing, place, idea, or absent/dead person is addressed as if in a Shakespearean sonnet
• A figure of speech in which a thing, place, idea, or absent/dead person is addressed as if present
• A figure of speech in which a thing, place, idea, or absent/dead person is addressed as if still dead
• A figure of speech in which a thing, place, idea, or absent/dead person is addressed as if they were the cause of dramatic irony