literary terms quiz #2
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- exposition
- the kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information
- figurative language
- language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense
- flashback
- a scene in a short story, a novel, a narrative poem, or a play that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier
- foot
- a unit used to measure the meter of a line of poetry
- foreshadowing
- the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come
- frame story
- a narrative that contains another narrative
- free verse
- unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern
- Gothic
- a term that describes the use in fiction of grotesque, gloomy settings and mysterious, violent, and supernatural occurrences to create suspense and awe
- haiku
- a Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables
- Harlem Renaissance
- a flowering of black writing, art, and music in the 1920s
- hyperbole
- a figure of speech using exaggeration for special effect
- iamb
- a poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- iambic pentameter
- the most common verse line in English and American poetry; it consists of five feet, with each foot an iamb
- imagery
- words of phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind
- Imagism
- a movement in American and English poetry begun in 1912 by the American poet Ezra Pound; uses direct concentration on the precise image
- irony
- a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
- verbal irony
- the writer or speaker says one thing but means another
- dramatic irony
- the reader or audience perceives something that a character in the story or play doesn't know
- irony of situation
- the writer shows a discrepancy between the expected result of some action or situation and its actual result
- local color
- the use of specific details describing dialect, dress, customs, and scenery associated with a particular region or section of the country
- lyric
- a poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which are basically dissimilar
- meter
- a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- metonymy
- a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself
- mood
- the prevailing feeling or emotional climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part, through descriptions of setting
- motif
- a recurring feature (such as a name, an image, or a phrase) in a work of literature
- narrative poem
- a poem that tells a story
- Naturalism
- an extreme form of realism in which the character is controlled by his heredity or environment
- octave
- an eight-line poem or stanza
- ode
- a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject
- onomatopoeia
- the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
- oxymoron
- a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms, as in "sweet sorrow," "wise fool," "living death," and "honest thief"
- paradox
- a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be contradictory or untrue