CLEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 2023/2024

alliteration - Answer-Repetition of a constanant sound - do or die; safe and sound. A common use for alliteration is emphasis. It occurs in everyday speech in such prhases as "tittle-tattle," "bag and baggage," "bed and board," "primrose path," and "through thick and thin" and in sayings like "look before you leap." allusion - Answer-a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work.a brief reference to a person, event, place, or phrase. The writer assumes will recognize the reference. For instance, most of us would know the difference between a mechanic's being as reliable as George Washington or as reliable as Benedict Arnold. Allusions that are commonplace for readers in one era may require footnotes for readers in a later time. antagonist - Answer-character struggles against somone or something - man against himself; mand against man; man against society; man against nature. assonance - Answer-Repetition of vowel sounds apostrophe - Answer-A direct address to a person, thing, or abstraction, such as "O Western Wind," or "Ah, Sorrow, you consume us." Apostrophes are generally capitalized. artifice - Answer-cunning; ingenuity; craftiness bathos - Answer-extreme anticlimax climax - Answer-the point where crisis comes to point of greatest intensity and is resolved dialog - Answer-conversation used to reveal characters and advance plot didactic - Answer-strong, lectruing voice droll - Answer-amusing in an odd way enjambment - Answer-the running of one line of poetry into the next without a break for the rhyme or syntax exposition - Answer-opening; beginning portion of plot which background information is set forth fie - Answer-term used to express mild disgust; annoyance foreshadowing - Answer-using hints or clues to suggest what will happen later; builds suspense homonym - Answer-work sounds the same but spelled differently - they're and there iaconic - Answer-expressing much in a few words; concise irony - Answer-conflict between appearance and reality; Romeo & Juliet - audience knows she's sleeping, Romeo thinks she's dead. languid - Answer-slow and relaxed; lazy andpeaceful; sluggish in character metaphor - Answer-Comparing two unlike things that have something in common - "I think the sun is a flower that blooms for just one hour". Implicit comparison between two unlike things. metonymy - Answer-Word represents something else which it suggests - a 'herd' of cows refered to as fifty 'head'; head represents herd. orthodoxy - Answer-customary onomatopoeia - Answer-Word which imitates a sound - bang; pop; hiss; sizzl