Poetry
Prose
Drama
Stylistic Devices
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100
Which foot of the following pattern: Unstressed-unstressed-stressed?
anapaest
100
Name three characteristic features of the short story
narrative economy, careful selection, reduction and compression, in the presentation of characters and the spactial and temporal frame, concentration on depiction of individual events/scenes, tendency towards stylistic brevity and allusive prose
100
What are the two types of drama?
Comedy and Tragedy
100
Identify one stylistic device in the following sentence: Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
Alliteration
100
What is a motif?
A recurring element that has symbolic significance in the story.
200
Determine the meter: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Iambic pentameter
200
In Genette's theoretical framework, what do you call a narrative situation in which the narrator is not part of the story?
Heterodiegetic
200
What is the technical term for all literary characters who appear in a play?
dramatis personae
200
What do you call the repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses or lines of verse? E.g. “My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”
Anaphora
200
Name three features that are characteristic of poetry.
Relative shortness, density, subjective perspective of speaker, musicality (rhyme scheme, meter, rhythm, recurring structures), tendency towards artistic self-referentiality, deviation from everyday language, ...
300
Determine the meter: For the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
anapaestic dimeter
300
What is Roland Barthes' suggestion for a term to replace 'author'?
scripteur
300
What do you call the fourth part in the five-part structure of a play?
Moment of delay
300
What do you call the salient features that are shared/ linked together in a metaphor?
tertium comparationis
300
What do you call the following rhyme scheme: aab ccb?
tail rhyme
400
What do you call a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion in a sonnet?
A volta
400
What are the two ways in which a narrator can be unreliable?
Sincerety, competence
400
What is included in the secondary text of a drama? Name two things.
Everything that is not part of the dialogue (Stage directions, demarcation of acts/scenes, title, dedications, preface, list of dramatis personae)
400
What do you call the repetition by replacement of one word with another of the same meaning? e.g.: For thee I watch, whilst thou dost elsewhere wake
Synonymy
400
What do you call the reversal of the logical succession of events? E.g.: I die! I faint! I fail!
Hysteron proteron
500
What do you call it when sentences or syntactic units extend beyond the end of a line? e.g.: Policemen look suspicious to normal Murderers. To the mature paedophile A child's incurious glance is a leer
enjambment
500
What are the three elements in Stanzel's model of narrative situations ?
mode, person, perspective
500
What is the difference between a monologue and soliloquy?
Soliloquy: When a character is alone on stage or is regardless of hearers. Monologue: When a character speaks alone but in the explicit presence of others.
500
What do you call the abrupt cessation before the end of the utterance? E.g.: His dying words - but when I reached That tenderest strain of all the ditty,
Aposiopesis
500
What do you call it when an idea that would usually be expressed by a single noun phrase is represented by two words joined by a conjunction? E.g.: From rest and sleep
Hendiadys
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