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Elements of Literature and Composition- Quiz 4
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12th Grade
10/06/2009

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Literal
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not figurative, accurate to the letter, matter of fact or concrete
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Loose Sentence
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a sentence in which the ideas follow their logical order
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Lyric
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a brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotions, and creating for the reader a single, unified expression
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Lyrical
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songlike
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Malapropism
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a ludicrous blunder in the use of words, committed by using a word which sounds like the intended one, but whose meaning is absurdly different
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Melodrama
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the belief that society has an innate tendency toward improvement and that this tendency can be furthered by conscious human effort
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar
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Melodrama
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has a romantic plot that makes excessive appeal to the reader's emotions (pity, joy, horror)
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Meter
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the recurrence in poetry of rhythmic pattern
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Metonymy
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a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself
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Motif
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a recurring feature, such as name, an image, or a phrase, in a work of literature which generally contributes in some way to the theme of a piece
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Ode
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an exalted, complex lyric poem written about a dignified subject
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Onomatopoeia
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the combination of words which imitate sounds
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Oxymoron
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the combination of two contradictory terms to express a condensed paradox
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Parable
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a short simple story having a moral or a rather obvious symbolical or spiritual meaning
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Paradox
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a statement or situation which seems on the surface contradictory or untrue, but proves valid upon closer inspection
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Parallelism
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a structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentence, paragraphs, and larger units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is equally developed and similarly phrased
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Parody
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a composition imitating with ludicrous exactness, but ordinarily on a ridiculous subject, the style and mannerisms of some serious composition
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Pastoral
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a type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life
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Pathetic Fallacy
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an uncomplimentary term devised by John Ruskin, the Victorian critic and writer, to describe what he felt was an artificial use of personification, or of imputing to inanimate objects feelings that they do not possess
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Periodic Sentence
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a sentence in which the meaning is withheld until the end of the sentence
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Persona
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the mask which covers the direct voice of the author
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Personification
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the endowment of animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form, character, or sensibilities
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Platonism
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the idealistic philosophical teachings of Plato (4th BC) and his followers
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Point of View
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from which the story is told
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