The sense of anti-climax created when a literary work drops from an elevated or serious level to the more absurd or ridiculous.
The purification or purging of emotions, especially pity or fear, through art. Some literary forms act as a release for the author or audience of these emotions.
Where a text has a sense of truthfulness and realism. Proper nouns can achieve this. 'AK47's and RPGs were firing none stop.'
where the writer uses techniques that appeal to the reader's audience's emotions, often arousing pity for a character.
7. 'Many are called but few are chosen' is an example of what literary device?
Juxtaposition
Antithesis
Oxymoron
Pathos
8. 'Insult, injustice and exploitation' are example of which devices?
Emotive languages, tripling and alliteration.
Silence, emotive language and pathetic fallacy.
Emotive language, alliteration and synecdoche.
Foreshadowing, tripling and alliteration.
9. Peripeteia in a tragic play is...
The downward action of the plot leading to the exode.
The resolution of the play.
A sudden reversal of circumstances, a turning point in the play.
The climax, the moment when the tragic hero makes a critical discovery where the tension peaks.
10. What kind of imagery is 'Somatic imagery'?
Imagery associated with the body
Imagery that describes sight
Imagery that describes textures
Imagery that describes sounds
11. An incentive moment occurs where in a tragic play?
At a turning point in the play.
At the beginning -something that starts a chain of cause/effect events.
In the middle - the highest tension point of the play.
At the end - the resolution.
12. Synaesthesia is...
When the first sound in each word is similar and soft. i.e - smooth skin, frosty flake.
Where a word modifies another word by describing it with another sense. I.e - Bitter Wind, Prickly Laugh
When two word are juxtaposed when describing something. i.e - Bittersweet, clearly confused.
13. What is and 'Eye rhyme'?
Rhyming words describing the eye.
Rhyming couplet from the point of view of the persona, separate to the main body of the poem.
Words that look like they should rhyme but don't. I.e- Move and Love
Words that rhyme using visual imagery.
14. Volta, 'A subtle shift or complete change in direction of the poem' usually occurs in which type of poem?
An Elegy.
A Petrarchan sonnet.
An Ode.
A Haiku.
15. How many lines is a 'Tercet' Stanza?
13
7
3
1
16. Anagnorisis in a tragic play is...
The resolution of the play.
A sudden reversal of circumstances, a turning point in the play.
The climax, the moment when the tragic hero makes a critical discovery where the tension peaks.
The downward action of the plot leading to the exode.
17. Litotes are
A figure of speech that is an understatement. I.e - He's no oil painting = he is ugly.
Comparing two things with one another.
Imbuing and object with human or animal traits.
A figure of speech that is an over exaggeration.
18. When a narrative is told through letters it is...
Bildungsroman
Epistolary
Prolepsis
Analepsis
19. Stichomythia is...
When two characters have two different conversations simultaneously.
When character are given alternating lines.
When characters repeat lines back to eachother.
When there is a long pause between character speech.
20. An extended metaphor with complex or unusual logic, commonly found in metaphysical poetry. Is a description of what literary device?
