POETRY
PROSE
THEATRE
LITERARY CRITICISM
GENERAL
100
A unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; frequently a rhyming couplet
What is a Distich
100
An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
What is Juxtaposition
100
The indirect presentation of a contradiction or a gap in knowledge between an action or expression and the context it which it occurs
What is Irony
100
Complete the quotation: "I always said that his Pegasus was a gaseous __________
What is Horse
200
A poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines of verses
What is meter
200
Any literary of rhetorical device, such as metaphor, metonym, alliteration or irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense
What is Trope
200
The underlying or implicit meaning of dialogue within a play
What is Subtext
200
Critical approval from all or most literary critics
What is literary acclaim
200
A Visual effect for conveying a characteristic mostly used in Greek drama
What is a Mask
300
The Science or study of poetic meters and versification
What is Prosody
300
A figure of speech in which a pert is used for the whole or th whole for a part, the special for the general, or the general for the special
What is Synecdoche
300
The critical moment of recognition or discovery
What is Anagnorisis
300
An enthusiastic expression of approval, such as a standing ovation for a play
What is a Plaudit
300
Another word for a quotation or a quoted statement of knowledge
What is a Gobbet
400
In classical prosody, noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter
What is elegiac verse
400
The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
What is Syntax
400
The final resolution of the intricacies of a plot as of a drama of a play
What is Denouement
400
A word used by IB synonymous with literary criticism
What is Commentary
400
A method for conveying a meaning or message in an implicit or barely discernable fashion existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness
What is Subliminal
500
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme.
What is Assonance
500
Also known as "lexis" and "word choice," the term refers to the words selected for use in any oral, written, or literary expression. Diction often centers on opening a great array of lexical possibilities with the connotation of words by maintaining first the denotation of words.
What is Diction
500
Where whole sections of other texts are lifted into a collage that is often trying to parody, and pay homage to, the originals.
What is Pastiche
500
A form of paradox in which contradictory words are used next to each other
What is Oxymoron
500
Author of Totilla Flat and the famous quote: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Who is John Steinbeck
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