A paradox is...

__________________ is overstatement for effect.

_________________ is understatement for effect.

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work is known as...

What is a caesura?

Considered an "impure rhyme," _________________ is the counterpart of assonance; the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. Example: shadow meadow; pressed, passed, sipped, supped.

Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize is known as...

When a writer uses personification, they are...

What the heck is synaesthesia?

"The deep green sea is the place for me" is an example of...

The sequence of events that occur through a work to produce a coherent narrative or story is known as the ___________________.

__________________ is a mode of writing in which the author traces his or her thoughts verbatim into the text. Typically, this style offers a representation of the author’s exact thoughts throughout the writing process and can be used to convey a variety of different emotions or as a form of pre-writing.

________________ is a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

__________________, a form of chiasmus, is the reversal of the same words in a grammatical structure. Example: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. Example: You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Exposition is...

__________________ is a comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. Example: The teacher is God.

A _____________ that is a direct comparison between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison is specifically, a ________________. Example: The teacher is like God.

A figure of speech that substitutes one aspect or attribute for the whole itself is known as ____________________. For instance, referring to a woman as “a skirt” or the sea as “the deep.” Doing so can not only evoke a specific tone (determined by the attribute being emphasized or the thing to which it refers), but also comments on the importance of the specific element that is doing the substituting.

Buzz, slurp, chomp, slam, slap, pop, boom, and crash are all examples of ________________.

When you are discussing a story or poem's syntax, you are discussing its...

Wordsworth--"Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee."

When a speaker addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person, this is an example of ___________________. Example:

When writers reference, hint at, or down right steal from their predecessors or peers, they are committing an act of _________________________.

The five main things Western writers tend to think of when using intertextuality are...

Figures like antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, simile are all species of _____________.

The ways individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text that includes descriptions of the characters’ physical appearances, personalities, actions, interactions, and dialogue is known as __________________.

Bildungsroman is...

Epistolary is

An essay is

A novella is

Word choice, or the specific language an author, narrator, or speaker uses to describe events and interact with other characters is known as ________________.

_______________________ diction is characterized by proper, elevated, elaborate, and often polysyllabic language.

________________ diction is characterized by correct language characterized by directness and simplicity.

_____________________ is characterized by relaxed, conversational and familiar language.

Writers often use an object or element incorporated into a narrative to represent another concept or concern, broadly, representing one thing with another. ________________ typically recur throughout a narrative and offer critical, though often overlooked, information about events, characters, and the author’s primary concerns in telling the story.

P.O.V stands for...

___________ person POV occurs when a story is told from the perspective of one character who uses the word "I." This means that readers “see” or experience events in the story through the narrator’s eyes.

______________ person POV occurs in a narrative when it is told from the perspective of an outside figure who does not participate directly in the events of a story. This mode uses “he,” “she,” and “it” to describe events and characters.

_______________ person POV is a narrative perspective that typically addresses that audience using “you.” This mode can help authors address readers and invest them in the story. Traditionally, "you" participate in the story. "You" are the one doing the actions and speaking.

Irony...

Verbal, Socratic, Cosmic, Situational, Dramatic, and Historical are all types of what?

_________________ is often referred to as sarcasm.

In the movie Shrek, it was expected that “love’s true form” for Fiona would be human when in reality it was an ogre because Shrek loved her ogre form. What type of irony is this?

The most famous example of this in Romeo & Juliet when the audience knows that Juliet has taken a potion to merely appear dead, while Romeo only sees her dead body and proceeds to kill himself.

In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Lord Voldemort’s motivation throughout all the books is to kill Harry and in the end, that’s what destroys him. What sort of irony is this?

The juxtaposition between a historical event and what has happened since to contradict it is known as ________________. Leading up to its departure in 1912, the Titanic was declared unsinkable – and then it sunk on its maiden voyage.

Your professor asks you to read something and you come in the next day with questions about the reading that they claim they do not know the answers to. So they in turn ask you question after question about the reading that you answer, eventually figuring everything out on your own. You've just become the victim of ___________________.

___________________ is an elaborate and extended metaphor that links two apparently unrelated fields or subjects in an unusual and surprising conjunction of ideas. The term is commonly applied to the metaphorical language of a number of early seventeenth-century poets, particularly John Donne. Example: stiff twin compasses//the joining together of lovers like legs of a compass. See "To His Coy Mistress"

A refrain is a...

In prose, writers use paragraphs, in poetry, poets use ________________ to group like ideas together.

__________________ emphasizes the idea of contrast by parallel structures of the contrasted phrases or clauses. The structures of phrases and clauses are similar, in order to draw the attention of the listeners or readers. For example:

“Setting foot on the moon may be a small step for a man but a giant step for mankind.”

_______________ is a style of writing that mocks, ridicules, or pokes fun at a person, belief, or group of people in order to challenge them. Often, texts employing satire use sarcasm, irony, or exaggeration to assert their perspective.

Often at the beginning or conclusion of a text, the term ___________________ refers to an instance in which the author or narrator justifies his or her goals in producing the text.

A measured combination of heavy and light stresses. The numbers are: monometer (1), dimeter (2), trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter, or septenary (7). Also... a part of your body.

What type of poem, derived from the theater, has a speaker address an internal listener or the reader? In some, especially those by Robert Browning, the speaker may reveal his personality in unexpected and unflattering ways.

The _______________ is the primary character in a text, often positioned as “good” or the character with whom readers are expected to identify. They oppose an ________________.

Shakespeare's plays are, largely, written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, which is what sort of verse?

Shakespearean sonnets end with a stanza of two successive rhyming lines. What are these called?

What is a Heroic Couplet?

____________________ refers to words or phrases throughout a work or throughout the works of a writer or group of writers that appeal to the senses of taste, touch, sight, smell, sound.

What type of imagery gives a feeling of natural, or physical bodily movement or action (like a heartbeat, a pulse, and breathing)? It also refers to tension along with the movement.

A flying car in a story that takes place in the 1960s is an example of an ________________________.

___________________________ in literature refers to the practice of misusing words by substituting words with similar sounding words that have different, often unconnected meanings, and thus creating a situation of confusion, misunderstanding and amusement.

The number of feet within a line of traditional verse is considered the verse's ___________________.

_________________ is the repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Example: June--moon.

An _________________ protagonist of a story who embodies none of the qualities typically assigned to traditional heroes and heroines. Not to be confused with the antagonist of a story, this character is a protagonist whose failings are typically used to humanize him or her and convey a message about the reality of human existence.

__________ are narrative poems composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a. They may use refrains.

Any struggle between opposing forces is known as...

Conflict that pits one person against another is known as...

In this type of conflict, a character finds him or herself battling between two competing desires or selves, typically one good and one evil.

This type of conflict occurs when a character is trapped by an inevitable destiny; freedom and free will often seem impossible in these stories.

In this type of conflict, humankind comes up against nature, battling for survival against its inexorable and apathetic force. The hero may be forced to confront nature, or the protagonist may be seeking the conflict, trying to exert dominance over nature.

This conflict follows the storyline of an individual or a group fighting (sometimes successfully, sometimes not-so-successfully) against injustices within their society.

This is a common thread in science fiction and supernatural horror movies and books. In this type of conflict, the protagonist battles against an entity that isn't entirely known or comprehensible.

This type of conflict focuses on a person or group of people fighting to overcome unemotional and unsympathetic machinery that believes it no longer requires humanity.

Sometimes referred to as “a resonant figure of mythic importance," ____________________ help readers identify what a writer may posit as a universal truth.

Which type of sonnet has 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter that are divided into an octave (8) and sestet (6). There is a "volta," or "turning" of the subject matter between the octave and sestet.

Which type of sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg?

Which type of sonnet, invented by sixteenth century English poet, cribs its structure from the Shakespearean—three quatrains and a couplet—but employs a series of “couplet links” between quatrains, as revealed in the rhyme scheme: abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee?

A closed poetic form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter is known as a _____________________.

The "turning" point, or _________________, of a Petrarchan sonnet, usually occurring between the octave and the sestet.

“An ____________________ is an adjective, noun, or phase expressing some characteristic quality of a thing or person or a descriptive name applied to a person, as Richard the Lion-Hearted” (Taafe 58).

The _______________________ is the height of conflict and intrigue in a narrative. This is when events in the narrative and characters’ destinies are most unclear; it often appears as a decision the protagonist must make or a challenge they must overcome in order for the narrative to obtain resolution.

The _________________ is the “falling action” of a narrative, when the climax and central conflicts are resolved and a resolution is found. In a play, this is typically the last act and in a novel it might include the final chapters.

According to Taafe, “_____________________ literally in Latin means the ‘god from the machine’; a deity in Greek and Roman drama who was brought on by stage machinery to intervene in the action; hence, any character, event, or device suddenly introduced to resolve the conflict” (43).

A ___________________ is a story that an author encloses around the central narrative in order to provide background information and context. This is typically referred to as a “story within a story” or a “tale within a tale.” Frame stories are usually located in a distinct place and time from the narratives they surround.

_________________ is the term for beginning in “the middle of things,” or when an author begins a text in the midst of action. This often functions as a way to both incorporate the reader directly into the narrative and secure his or her interest in the narrative that follows.

An ________________ is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter. The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba.

There are 2 ways to end a line of poetry, either an _________________________ which is a line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. Or, an ____________________, which is a line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.

A stanza containing six lines is called a...

A ____________________ is a narrative work or writing style that mocks or mimics another genre or work. Typically, they exaggerate and emphasize elements from the original work in order to ridicule, comment on, or criticize their message.

The sequence of events that occur through a work to produce a coherent narrative or story is called the...

Two unstressed feet is known as an empty foot or a _________________________.

An exact rhyme, rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance, within a line of poetry, is known as a...

______________ may be defined as “a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s treatment of its subject-matter; or a topic recurring in a number or literary works” (Baldick 258). Themes in literature tend to differ depending on author, time period, genre, style, purpose, etc.

Comprised of an author’s diction, syntax, tone, characters, and other narrative techniques, _____________ is used to describe the way an author uses language to convey his or her ideas and purpose in writing. An author’s style can also be associated to the genre or mode of writing the author adopts, such as in the case of a satire or elegy with would adopt a satirical or elegiac style of writing.

_______________ is a way of communicating information (in writing, images, or sound) that conveys an attitude. Authors convey tone through a combination of word-choice, imagery, perspective, style, and subject matter. By adopting a specific one, authors can help readers accurately interpret meaning in a text.

Another word for a kind of literature is ________________.

The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry is called the ___________________________.

"Seize the day" Poetry is concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present.