Accurate Quizzes with Verified
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(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete
sentence -
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Clause
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a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections -
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Soliloquy
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a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line -
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Caesura
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, a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each
foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable -
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Iambic Pentameter
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A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of
its functions or qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean. -
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Kenning
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a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy
between seemingly dissimilar objects; ex John Donne metephysical poetry, he compares a
flea bite to the act of love. -
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Conceit
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a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not
literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -
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Metaphor
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, a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed
as if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an absent or imaginary
person -
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Apostrophe
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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually
formed with 'like' or 'as') -
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Simile
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A figure of speech. ex. Many hands on deck. Is an example of? -
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Synecdoche
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a humorous imitation which riducles a literary style -
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parody
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a line of poetry that ends with a pause both in punctuation and in thought -
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, End stopped line
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a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow
uninterruptedly into the succeeding line -
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Run-on line
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a long narrative poem that traces the adventures of a hero -
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Epic
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a lyric poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter -
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sonnet
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a meaningful quote at the beginning of a book or chapter -
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epigraph
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(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete
sentence -
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Clause
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a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections -
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Soliloquy
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a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line -
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Caesura
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1
, a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each
foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable -
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Iambic Pentameter
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A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of
its functions or qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean. -
Answer✅
Kenning
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a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy
between seemingly dissimilar objects; ex John Donne metephysical poetry, he compares a
flea bite to the act of love. -
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Conceit
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a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not
literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -
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Metaphor
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, a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed
as if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an absent or imaginary
person -
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Apostrophe
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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually
formed with 'like' or 'as') -
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Simile
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A figure of speech. ex. Many hands on deck. Is an example of? -
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Synecdoche
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a humorous imitation which riducles a literary style -
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parody
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a line of poetry that ends with a pause both in punctuation and in thought -
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, End stopped line
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a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow
uninterruptedly into the succeeding line -
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Run-on line
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a long narrative poem that traces the adventures of a hero -
Answer✅
Epic
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a lyric poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter -
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sonnet
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a meaningful quote at the beginning of a book or chapter -
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epigraph
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