The purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according to Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama.
What is catharis.
100
The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information.
What is exposition.
100
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
What is meter.
100
Repetition that occurs at the end of successive sentences or clauses.
What is epistrophe.
100
A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.
What is satire.
200
A type of drama in which characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better.
What is comedy.
200
A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
What is a foil.
200
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse.
200
Repetition that occurs at both the beginning and end of the same sentence, clause, or line.
What is epinelepsis.
200
A coming-of-age novel in which the author presents the psychological, moral, and social shaping of the personality of a character, usually the protagonist.
What is bildingsroman.
300
The resolution of the plot of a literary work.
What is denouement
300
A form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole or the whole for a part.
What is synecdoche.
300
An stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one
What is a trochee (trochaic meter).
300
A rhetorical trope formed by repeating the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next.
What is anadiplosis.
300
The new emphasis in the Renaissance on human culture, education, and reason sparked by a revival for interest in classical Greek and Roman literature, culture, and language.
What is humanism.
400
The idea that a play should be limited to a specific time, place, and story line.
Bonus (100 pts): Which play did Aristotle argue was the perfect play for embodying this idea?
What are unities.
400
A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.
What is peripeteia.
400
An ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimlar things.
What is a conceit.
400
A figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.
What is apostrophe.
400
An episodic, often autobiographical novel about a rogue or picaro (person of low social degree) wandering around and living off his wits.
What is picaresque.
500
In medieval physiology, four liquids in the human body affecting behavior. Each was associated with one of the four elements of nature.
What are humours.
500
Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against a person, cause, idea, or system. It employs a heavy use of negative emotive language.
What is invective.
500
The father of the Italian sonnet and an early Renaissance humanist.
Who is Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca).
500
A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentense or ideas--a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic purposes.
What is antithesis.
500
A humorous mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic.