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6. A line of three feet.

7. What is trimeter?

8. A line of four feet

9. What is tetrameter?

10. A line of five feet considered to be serious verse in English since the time of Chaucer.

11. What is pentameter?

12. A line of six feet. Conventional medium of epic and didactic poetry.

13. What is hexameter?

14. Unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter.

15. What is blank verse?

16. Lines in which both the grammaticalstructure and the sense reach completion at the end.

17. What are end-stopped lines?

18. Same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds

19. What is assonance?

20. The repetition at the end of a clause of a word or phrase that occurred at its beginning.

21. What is epanalepsis?

22. A figurative phrase used in Old Germanic languages as a simple noun.

23. What is a kenning?

24. The use of more conjunctions than is normal.

25. What is polysyndeton?

26. Either poetry or prose that is intended to teach a lesson.

27. What is didactic?

28. A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. Ex: “she was not unmindful.”

29. What is Litotes?

30. The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself. Ex: a monarch as “the crown”

31. What is metonymy?

32. A pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. Ex: “Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike.”

33. What is chiasmus?

34. The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner tjat ot applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one. Ex: “opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy”

35. What is Zeugma?

36. Exaggeration to heighten effect or perhaps for humor.

37. What is hyperbole?

38. A figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.

39. What is apostrophe?

40. A grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of the sentence. Ex: as “the poet” and “Burns” in “a biography of the poet Burns.”

41. What is apposition?

42. A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the made.

43. What is synecdoche?

44. A rhetorical term applied to the repetition of the closing word or phrase at the end of several clauses. Ex: “And all the night he did nothing but weep Philoclea, sigh Philoclea, and cry out Philoclea.”

45. What is epistrophe?

46. Any uninvited or unwelcome manifestation of the writer within the story. Usually treated as a flaw, it can sometimes be deployed to good effect.

47. What is authorial intrusion?

48. Obscure and often pretenious language marked by circumlocutions and long words.

49. What is jargon?

50. A pithy saying. Ex: “Only those deserving of scorn are apprehensive of it.”

51. What is epigram?

52. The language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life.

53. What is idiolect?

54. A term applied to a decorative art in sculpture, painting, and architecture, characterized by fantastic representations of human and animal forms oftern combined into formal distortions of the natural to the point of absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.

55. What is grotesque?

56. Make your wager

57. Writing in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and follies of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader a wry smile.

58. What is Horatian Satire?