ENGL 1011 - Literature and
Composition II TRU
Metaphor - Answer- A comparison without using like or as
Alliteration - Answer- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words.
stressed syllable within a word
ex. When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent THought
I Summon up remembrance of THings past
I Sigh the lack of many THing I Sought
And With old Woes new Wail my dear time's Waste
Similie - Answer- a comparison between two unlike things using like or as
Assonance - Answer- Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close
proximity
Consonance - Answer- Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in
close proximity.
Satire - Answer- A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices,
stupidities, and follies.
Hyperbole - Answer- exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken
literally.
Rhyme - Answer- Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following
them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rythym - Answer- A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Imagery - Answer- Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch,
taste)
Imagism - Answer- a movement in early 20th-century English and American poetry
that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images
Spondaic - Answer- Two stressed syllables. Example: heartbreak
End Rhyme & Internal Rhyme - Answer- The repetition of sounds at the ends of
words
Internal Rhyme- rhyme that occurs within the line of poetry
Rhetoric - Answer- the art of using language effectively and persuasively
Syntax - Answer- Sentence structure
Couplet - Answer- A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate
stanza in a poem.
Triplet - Answer- a tercet in which all three lines rhyme
Quatrain - Answer- A four line stanza
Villanelle - Answer- a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of
five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring
alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the
concluding quatrain.
Alienation Effect - Answer- keeps audience from getting lost in story so they think
critically not emotionally
Personification - Answer- giving human qualities to something that is not human
Foreshadowing - Answer- the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen
later in a plot
Diction - Answer- word choice
Symbolism - Answer- A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but
suggests other meanings as well
Epigraph - Answer- the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its
theme
Allegory - Answer- A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent
abstractions
Abstractions - Answer- Reducing information and detail to focus on essential
characteristics.
Motif - Answer- a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary
composition
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