Comp 2 (Wheeler) Pre/Post-Test – Flashcards
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A writer's diction refers to his or her
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choice of words
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The passages from A Doll's House demonstrates what?
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Torvald treats Nora like a child.
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The narrator in the short story "Cathedral" by Carver changed his attitude about the blind man when they drink together. True or false?
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False
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The passage from "Barbie Doll" is an example of commentary of...
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Society
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The character who is struggling agaainst the main character or hero or who appears to be the main one causing havoc in the complication is called the...
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Antagonist
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Characters who are designed to possess certain typical characteristics of a group or social class/state. Often there characters are called stock characters, but the more common name for them is...
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Stereotype Characters
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The author's attitude or feelings towards a certain subject
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Tone
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Which statement defines magical realism?
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A literary style that uses supernatural or fantastic elements
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"Water, water, everywhere And all the boards did shrink' Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink."
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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"Here Captain! Dear Father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, you've falled cold and dead."
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O Captain! My Captain!
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"The mother smiled to know her child was in a scared place, but the smile was the last smile to come upon her face".
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Ballad of Birmingham
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"How strongly does my passion flow, divided equally twixt two? Damon had ne'ev subdued my heart had not Alexis took his part"
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On Her Loving two Equally
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"Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a big nose and fat legs."
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Barbie Doll
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"Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new"
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Dover Beach
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"In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, and strangled her. No pain felt she"
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Porphyria's Lover
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"Half a league, half a league, half a league, onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred".
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The Charge of Light Brigade
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"Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes."
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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"Go ahead, Bub. Draw. Draw. You'll see. I'll follow along with you".
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The Blindman
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"He was desperate to be good people."
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Lane Dean, Jr.
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"My Dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking today"
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Montressor
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"It has been so often called to imagine it might be so".
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Georgiana
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"Free! Body and soul free!"
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Mrs. Mallard
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"He is an angel. He must have been coming for the child"
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Pelayo's neighbor woman
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"They look like white elephants"
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Jig
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"See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson!"
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Miss Emily Grierson
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"I've got out at last in spite of you and Jane!"
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The narrator
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"He has the face of someone called Esteban"
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The oldest woman in the village
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The implied meaning of a word
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Connotation
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To create effective imagery, writers primarily use
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Sensory Details
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The high point of action in the plot of a play is the...
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Climax
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When a character in a play speaks directly to the audience but other characters onstage cannot "hear" him or her speaking, he/she is using a special kind of line a called a...
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Aside
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The passage from "The Birthmark" is an example of...
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Symbolism
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A writer uses allusions primarily to
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connect his or her work to well-known people, events, and places
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The central idea in a literary work is called its
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theme
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In literary works, tone refers mainly to
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how the author feels about the subject matter or audience
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The timeand place of a story are both
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elements of setting
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When a play contains prose writing between lines that include the directions that an author builds in for the actors so that they know where to go and what actions to perform on stage, those directions are called?
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Stage Directions
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Which of the following is NOT an elements of plot?
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Stage Directions
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The tone of an essay or story reflects
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the author's attitude toward the subject and his.her audience
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The phrase "Carpe Diem" means
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"Seize the day"
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A poem that expresses a story and usually has a refrain like a song
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Ballad
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The musical quality of poetry
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Rhythm
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In an external conflict, the main character may struggle against
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another character
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Giving human-like characteristics to an inanimate object
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Personification
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When writing about literature, you always use which tense?
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Present
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In an ode, the writer
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praises something or someone
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What kind of characterization is used when the author tells us directly what a charcter is using precise words and images?
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Direct characterization
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Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" is an example of
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a lyric poem
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The leading struggleror character who is the focus of the complication in a play is called the...
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Protagonist
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Words that pronounce sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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The passage from "The Cask of Amontillado" is an example of..
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Indirect characterization
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The final part of a story where all the conflicts are resolved and we know what happens to all of the important characters. This is a French term which literally means the unravelling of the knot.
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Denouement
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A direct or indirect reference to something outside the work
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Allusion
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A character with many different character traits, which sometimes contradict another
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Round
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A character with only one or two traits, a character with no depth
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Flat
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A character who changes throughout the story
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Dynamic
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A character who does not change throughout a story
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Static
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Man vs Self
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Internal Conflict
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Man vs Man, Man vs Society, Man vs Nature, Man vs Fate
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External Conflict
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A selection of words`
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Diction
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A recollection of a earlier incident or period
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Flashback
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The use of clues and hints at events that will occur later in a plot
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Foreshadowing
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A concrete, sensual representation of an object or perception; may be literal or figurative
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Imagery
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A contrast between what appears to be true and what's actually true
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Irony
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Contrast between what is said and what is meant
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Verbal Irony
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Contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
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Situational Irony
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When the audience or reader knows something the characters in the story do not
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Dramatic Irony
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The feeling the reader gets from a piece of literature
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Mood
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The voice telling the story
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Narrator
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A contradiction of meaning
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Paradox
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A character that tells the story from a later time
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1st person detached
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A character that doesn't understand the significance of the story
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1st person subjective
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A character that is only incidentally involved in the story and is neither the antagonist or the protagonist
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1st person observer
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A comparison not using like or as
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Metaphor
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A comparison using like or as
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Simile
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Giving life-like qualities to something non-human
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Personification
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Organization of the story
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Structure
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A literary device used by the author to throw the reader off the direction of the true plot
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Red Herring
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A story which resembles the situations of everyday life
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Realistic
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The author's description of a character in the story; appearance, speech, behavior, thoughts
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Characterization
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A unique form of speech
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Dialect
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A conversation between 2+ people
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Dialog
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Something which lacks individualizing characteristics and so represents its class
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Stereotype
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Verse of a poem
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Stanza
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2-line rhyming stanza
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Couplet
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4-line stanza
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Quatrain
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6-line Stanza
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Sestet
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8-line stanza
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Octave/Octet
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14 lines; Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; two parts; 3 quatrains
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English/Shakespearean Sonnet
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Narrative about life/people; quatrain in iambic pentameter (usually), some form of rhyme
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Ballad
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No regular rhyme/rhythm, stresses speech-like rhythm and pattern, emphasis through long pauses, line length=importance
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Free Verse
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Variable in form; a tribute; talks to the thing
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Ode
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Expresses author's feelings, song-like, highly variable in form
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Lyric poem
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Form/shape matches meaning, uncommon
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Concrete poem
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Follows rules of syntax and seeks accuracy of expression Ex: "She is a professional entomologist."
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High Diction
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Correct language/grammar but less elaborate words Ex: "She studies bugs."
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Middle Diction
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Relaxed expressions, slang Ex: "She thinks bugs are bae."
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Low/Colloquial Diction
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Expressions not meant to be taken literally
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Idiom
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Informal diction
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Slang
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Special words and expressions to fit needs and circumstances
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Jargon
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Words and subjects that should be appropriate for a given situation
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Decorum
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Refers to word order and sentence structure
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Syntax
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The duplication of forms and word order
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Parallelism
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Dictionary Definition
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Denotation
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How the word is interpreted
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Connotation
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Addressing an absent/imaginary character or object
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Apostrophe
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A word is replaces by another word closely associated with
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Metonymy
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Part refers to the whole
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Synechdoche
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Appealing to all senses through words
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Synesthesia
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The pronunciations of a sound or poem
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Prosody
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Act of scanning for a metrical pattern
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Scansion
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Punctuation is in the middle of a line
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Enjambment
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Repetition of identical consonants in beginning of words/syllables
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Alliteration
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Repetition of identical vowel sounds in words
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Assonance
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Repetition of consonants not beginning words/syllables
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Consonance
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Similar but not identical sounds
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Inexact/Slant Rhyme
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Identical sounds
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Exact Rhyme
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Identical spelling, different pronunciation
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Eye/Sight Rhyme
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One and two syllable words where the accent falls on the second syllable
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Masculine Rhyme
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2+ syllable words of heavy stress plus light syllables
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Feminine Rhyme
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Pattern of rhyme in poem
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Rhyme Scheme
