This Greek philosopher argued that art imitates life.
Who is Aristotle?
100
"I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous." - Yogi Berra
What is a paradox?
100
The minor Greek goddesses are said to inspire artists, such as Patty and Robert
What are Muses?
100
This type of stanza always has four lines.
What is a quatrain?
100
This term refers to a word or group of words that suggest a sensory experience.
What is an image?
200
This occurs when a character attempts to do good but inadvertently causes harm.
What is reversal?
200
"Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes." - Lady Macbeth
What is apostrophe?
200
This Italian form of these were originally devised by Petrarch, to bemoan his unrequited love of Laura.
What are sonnets?
200
This is the fourth act in Freytag's 5-act structure of tragedy.
What is denouement / unraveling?
200
To deceive without lying, as in the witches' telling Macbeth to "fear not, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane."
What is equivocation?
300
At this stage in a tragedy, according to Freytag, equilibrium is upset and conflicts begin.
What is exposition?
300
"When I backed into his sculpture and scraped my ankle, Eli told my I just had to grin and bear it."
What is a pun?
300
Spoken by the witches of Macbeth, the phrase "finger of birth-strangled babe" is an example of this type or sound effect.
What is cacophony?
300
In the Italian sonnet there are two groups of four-line stanzas, called the octave, but this is the number of four-line groups in the English sonnet.
What are three?
300
This is the artistic medium for which Robert Mapplethorpe would become most famous.
What is photography?
400
This quality, according to Aristotle, is part of a tragic hero's nature and contributes to his downfall.
What is hamartia (tragic flaw)?
400
"Various heads of state gathered in Geneva this weekend for a nuclear energy conference."
What is synecdoche / metonymy?
400
"Ya never know she could be earnin' her man / and learnin' her man / and at the same time burn' her man" is an example of this type of rhyme.
What is feminine rhyme?
400
These are the four levels of diction.
What are vulgate, colloquial, general, and formal.
400
This term refers to diction that is not the abstract language of ideas, feelings, and concepts;l in short, you can see it.
What is concrete diction?
500
After this point in a tragedy, according to Freytag, the hero's downfall seems inevitable.
What is the climax?
500
"Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely?" - Lady Macbeth
What is personification?
500
Marje is an example of this narrative point of view.
What is first person point of view?
500
This term describes the repetition of sound that follows: "the emperor perceives the problem precisely."
What is alliteration (initial and internal)?
500
This is the grade I'm going to earn on tomorrow's final exam.