Vocabulary Virtuosos
This term describes a feeling of unease or guilt.
What is compunction?
A complex French verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each.
What is a sestina?
A figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words like "as" or "like".
What is a simile?
Describes language that inflates the truth for a humorous effect.
What is a tall tale?
A term describing the rise and fall of voice produced by alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
A synonym for obesity, emphasizing fatness.
What is corpulence?
This term represents a 19th-century literary movement that aimed to portray life exactly as it was.
What is Naturalism?
A question asked for effect, not requiring an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
Art and literature movement aiming to express the unconscious mind.
What is Surrealism?
The act of modifying a noun or pronoun, often used to add information or detail.
What is an adjective?
Defined as stubbornness and a refusal to change one's opinion.
What is obduracy?
A style that emerged in the 20th century, known for experimental styles and forms in the arts.
What is Modernism?
The ability to create a variety of sentence structures, complex and simple.
What is syntactic fluency?
A fixed idea that does not allow for any individuality, often based on prejudices.
What is a stereotype?
A long speech made by a character alone on stage, used in drama.
What is a soliloquy?
Adjective describing a tendency to obstruct or harm, unfriendly in nature.
What is inimical?
A writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity, often used by Puritan writers.
What is Plain Style?
A statement that says less than what is meant, often humorously.
What is an understatement?
A literary term for the bold experimental styles of the early 20th century.
What is Modernism?
Unified parts of writing related to one central idea or organizing principle.
What is unity?
This word means to blame or insult someone strongly.
What is berate?
A movement that held truth can be arrived at through reason rather than authority of the past or Church.
What is Rationalism?
Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved.
What is syntactic permutation?
An exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable.
What is a tall tale?
This term refers to a complex sentence structure, often making it difficult for the reader to follow.
What is syntactic permutation?