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Praxis II Literary Terms c
Lit Terms
Question: Lit. portraying idealized country life.
Answer: Pastoral
Question: A detailed description of someone's life.
Answer: Biography
Question: A phrase not literal in meaning/implies something.
Answer: Figure of Speech
Question: Practice used to describe rhythimic patterns in a poem separating metrical feet/counting syllables/marking accents, etc.
Answer: Scansion
Question: Fictional story in prose involving animals/mythical creatures/forces of nature given human qualities teaching a moral lesson.
Answer: Fable
Lit Terms
Question: Prose narrative generally describing one event/tight series of events w/a beginning/middle/end.
Answer: Short Story
Question: Original pattern/model from which all things of same type are copied/based.
Answer: Archetype
Question: An exaggration/overstatement/not literal.
Answer: Hyperbole
Question: Movement of chorus/right to left across stage/division of a poem w/stanzas of varing length.
Answer: Strophe
Question: Poetry exhibiting high IQ/witty, subtle, fantastic/far fetched metaphors/similies. (Donne, Herbert, Marvell)
Answer: Metaphysical Poetry
Lit Terms
Question: Traditional story concerning history of early people/civilization explaining some natural phenomenon/supernatural beings/events.
Answer: Myth
Question: The associated/emotional meaning of words.
Answer: Connotation
Question: Collection of memories about specific events/moments from the author's life.
Answer: Memoir
Question: Figure of speech/term for a part of something referring to the whole of something. (Hired hands)
Answer: Synecdoche
Question: Literature creating an emotional response by word pattern producing a specific effect through rhythm/sound/meaning.
Answer: Poetry
Lit Terms
Question: A widely told story about the past may/may not have a foundation in fact.
Answer: Legend
Question: Excessive pride/elaborate metaphor.
Answer: Conceit
Question: Sequence of events in a literary work Plot=what we see at a time/Story=whole entire thing (Oedipus Rex)
Answer: Plot
Question: Story/poem/picture interpreted to reveal hidden meaning/moral/political.
Answer: Allegory
Question: Character opposing Protagonist.
Answer: Antagonist
Lit Terms
Question: Used to classify poems not clearly narrative/single speaker conveying a thought/emotion/sensory impression/meant to be sung.
Answer: Lyric
Question: A sudden/striking realization.
Answer: Epiphany
Question: A statement contradicting itself/is true/invalid logic for critical thinking.
Answer: Paradox
Question: Letter/poem in the form of an essay/elegant/formal.
Answer: Epistle
Question: A person/thing directly oppose of another person/thing.
Answer: Antithesis