Week #7 literary and rhetorical vocab.quiz

Antagonist

• The angry neighbor that lives next door.
• The character pitted against the protagonist of a work.
• The character petrified by another main character.
• The character pitted against the foil of a work.

Caesura

• A pause in a line of poetry dictated by natural speaking rhythm.
• A pause in a line of prose dictated by natural speaking rhythm.
• A really good salad with parmesian cheese and croutons.
• A pause in a song allowing for breath.

Epiphany

• A sudden burst of color in an otherwise drab world.
• A sudden poetic discourse occuring between stanzas.
• A sudden revolting experience, or a work where nothing occurs.
• A sudden revelatory experience, or a work in which such an experience occurs.

Form

• Unique structure of a literary work, the categories according to which literary works are commonly classified
• The particular sub-categories of quntum physics.
• What a tennis player has or doesn't have.
• The common structure of work that makes it the same or similar.

Juxtaposition

• Two or more ideas, places, or characters, placed side by side in a literary work for the purpose of developing contrasts
• Two or more ideas, thoughts, or dreams, placed far from each other to create unity.
• Two or more characters placed near each other to simulate balance.
• Two or more ideas, thoughts, or characters, placed one on top the other.

Oxymoron

• a figure skater that wants to win the Olympics.
• a figure of speech in which like terms are given sympathetic feelings.
• a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
• a figure of speech in which apparently similar terms appear together.

Polysyndeton

• The use of a number of contractions in close progression.
• The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
• The use of a number of consonants in close proximity.
• The use of a number of contaminates.

Synechdote

• a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
• A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent an antedote.
• A figure of speech in which a whole is made to represent part of a metonomy.
• a figure of speech in which wholes are made into donuts.

Verisimilitude

• The appearance or semblance of a spiritual or godlike presence.
• The appearance of a military presence.
• The appearance or semblance of truth, likeliehood, probability.
• The appearance of semblance of lies, dishonesty, improbability.

Denotation

• The associations of a word.
• The illiterate meaning of a word.
• The literal meaning of a word.
• The opposite of the word.