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100
This 17th century poet wrote about God and women with the same fervent passion.
Who is John Donne?
100
In verse, this is the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is enjambment?
100
"She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.
Who is Jordan Baker?
100
Speaker: "I shall fulfill my purpose, prove myself with a proud deed or meet my death her in the mead-hall."
Who is Beowulf?
100
This dark philosophy rejects all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless and without purpose.
What is nihilism?
200
This 14 line poem has an opening octect with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA.
What is a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet?
200
"The pot is boiling" is an example of this poetic device.
What is metonymy?
200
"The Helming woman went onher rounds, queenly and dignified, decked out in rings, offering the goblet to all ranks . . ."
Who is Wealhtheow?
200
Speaker: "As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."
Who is Mersault?
200
This word means, "arrogantly superior and disdainful" and describes Jordan Baker well.
What is "haughty?"
300
This deliberate pause in a line of poetry is used for dramatic effect, as in, "I think. Therefore I am."
What is caesura?
300
This complex extended metaphor is used in metaphysical poetry, and is often carried by a vehicle.
What is a conceit?
300
"My neighbor came in. The word around the neighborhood is that he lives off women. But when you ask him what he does, he's a 'warehouse guard.' Generally speaking, he's not very popular.
Who is Raymond Sintès?
300
Subject: "She had little cause to credit the Jutes son and brother, she lost them both on the battlefield."
Who is Hildeburgh?
300
These folks illegally trafficked in liquor during prohibition.
Who are bootleggers?
400
In Italian sonnets, this movement or shift occurs after the opening 8 lines.
What is a volta?
400
The lines below As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. Contain the use of successive verbal constructions as used in poetry
What is parallelism?
400
Subject: "He was close to tears. If he wept, I was not sure I could control myself. His pretensions to uncommon glory were one thing. If for even an instant he pretended to misery like mine . . ."
Who is Unferth?
400
Subject: "So the guardian of the mound, the hoard-watcher, waited for the gloaming with fierce impatience; his pent-up fury at the loss of the vessel made him long to hit back."
Who is the dragon?
400
The opposite of cacophony, this term describes words and tone that is pleasing to the ear.
What is euphony?
500
This native of St. Lucia and world-renowned poet won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature and only recently died in May of 2017.
Who is Derek Walcott?
500
"Beowulf raised the hard weapon by the hilt, angry and resolute – the sword wasn’t useless to the warrior…" The statement above includes a form of irony used in Anglo-Saxon writing called:
What is litotes?
500
Subject: "He was talking in an agitated, urgent voice. I could see that he was genuinely upset . . He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself . .[then he] sounded very weary.
Who is the chaplain?
500
Speaker: "Can't repeat the past?" . . ."Why of course you can!"
Who is Jay Gatsby?
500
For many readers, Mersault has an _________________ morality. (of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify, lacking clarity)
What is ambiguous?