Week # 11B literary/rhetrorical vocabulary quiz

A foot (or feet) in poetry is

• a unit of rhythm
• a unit of punctuation
• a unit of algorhythms
• a unit of verbs

Shakespeare wrote mainly in what type of meter and feet

• Trochaic trimeter
• Dactylic pentameter
• Iambic pentameter
• Anapestic tetrameter

Absolute (stylistic device)

• a ballad or an elegiac style of poetry.

• a word free from limitations or qualifications (all, none, etc).

• a word with strict grammatical limitations.

• a word with multiple uses similar to a paradox.

Ballad (poetic form)

• A popular narrative song passed down orally following a form of rhymed quatrains(abab).

• A popular ode passed down glorifying a deceased person or persons.

• a rhythmic dance performed during occult rituals.

• a long narrative form of poetry using free verse.

expletive

• A cause and effect equation used in literary circles.

• A dystopian novel

• Figure of speech in which harsh cacaphonous words are used in multiple paragraphs.

• Figure of emphasis in which a single word or short phrase, interupts normal writing, to lend emphasis to the words on either side.

implication

• A suggestion an author makes to connote a negative reaction.

• A suggestion an author makes without stating it.

• A suggestion an author makes by directly stating it.

• Tiny eleves doing multiplication

Phillipic

• A written decree.

• A bitter attack or denounciation, especial verbal.

• The era in British history ruled by King Phillip.

• An astounding plethora of compliments and niceties.

Romantic (literary genre)

• A literary movememnt from 1750-1870 that praised logic and reasoning.

• A Hallmark movie.

• A literary movememnt from 1750-1870 that praised imagination over reason.

• A literary movememnt from 1750-1870 that praised individuality and soicialism.

Situational irony

• A situation in which actions have a catastrophic effect, and the outcome is as expected.

• A place of global irony.

• A situation in which actions have an exact effect than what is intended, so that the outcome is exactly what is expected.

• A situation in which actions have an opposite effect than what is intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Syllogism

• A three part deductive argument in which a conclusion is drawn (whether valid or not).

• The act of being silly.

• A two part deductive argument in which a conclusion is drawn (whether valid or not).

• A three part deductive drama in which a conclusion is drawn (whether valid or not).