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Short Answer
100
The transition from "problem" to "resolution" in a sonnet; usually appears in the ninth line of the poem
"Turn" or "Volta"
100
What are the two patriarchial roles conflated in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper that help to further oppress the narrator?
Husband and Doctor
100
What style of poem is structured with three 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet?
English/Shakespearean Sonnet
100
A ___________ is signified by 3 syllables: 


Stressed / Unstressed / Unstressed

Dactyl
200
________ puts different elements in proximity to one another and creates a formal relationship between them that can emphasize similarities, differences, or both
Juxtaposition
200

In what story did we examine the trauma that comes with discovering that someone/something you associate with care is capable of cruelty? Provide the title and author.

 
Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thein
200
The Italian Sonnet is also known as the __________ Sonnet. It is made up of two sections: an __________ and a __________
Petrarchan; two sections: an octave and a sestet
200
A rare double stressed set of syllables
Spondee
200
What is the biographical fallacy? For what story studied this semester did the biographical fallacy make an appearance?
Assuming the author is identical to the narrator, and that the story is a representation of the author's personal experience


Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien

300
Subset of British and American modernism in poetry; reaction to "wordy", florid quality of 19th-century poetry; poems focus intently on single, static image
Imagism
300
Which short story used stalling as a method of creating tension?
Borders by Thomas King
300
Term for a rhetorical device used for English poetry wherein the author/speaker directly addresses something that is not just someone/something right there; can address a thing or a concept


Example: Bright Star by John Keats

Apostrophe
300
Described as a falling meter (i.e. ending with an unstressed syllable)
Trochee
400
Form defined by a fixed number of syllables and accents per line; usually dominated by a particular pattern of specific metrical feet (i.e. iambic pentameter)
Accentual-Syllabic Verse
400

The notion that life is inherently meaningless is called ______ and is a concept that is explored in _______________ by _______________

Nihilism; A Clean, Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemmingway
400
Describe the form of a Villanelle
Lyric poem of 19 lines: five tercets and one quatrain

Elaborate scheme of rhyme and line repetition; two rhymed sounds, two repeated rhymed lines

No formally dictated meter--usually in a "song-like" tirmeter, tetrameter or pentameter

400
Define a Caesura

a pause in the line that indicates a space or a pause; it occurs after punctuation or after a noun or verb phrase

400

Why is colloquial language/dialect seen as a double-edged sword in literature? Provide an example of a text wherein colloquial language/dialect was used.

Has the power to immerse a reader in the world of the story by making them feel as though they are a part of the community. However, it simultaneously has the power to alienate the reader because the language is so jarring and so far removed from our own 

A text from the semester that used colloquial language was Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty

500
A subset of what, in linguistics, are called "fricatives"; any consonant that is pronounced by pushing air through a constricted space made with parts of one's mouth in some way
Sibilance
500
What is Narrative Inference? Provide an example from the semester of a text wherein it was used.
The tensions between the "spoken" and the "unspoken"


Fleur by Louise Erdrich -- Fleur's assault was implied, never directly stated/described

500
William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about this 1558 oil on canvas painting with the same name?
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
500
Describe an Anapest
A rising meter