Review of Terms 1-25Review of Terms 1-25

1. In the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, the word “wall” acts as both a physical boundary (denotation) and an emotional barrier (_________), preventing interaction between neighbors.

connotation

2. night (English)nuit (French) nacht (German, Dutch)nicht (Scotch)natt (Swedish)nat (Danish) noc (Czech, Polish)

Each of the previous words is related to one another because they are ____________.

cognates

3. An author’s word choice is known as _________.

diction

4. Alike, corresponding, equivalent, similar, and uniform are all synonyms for the term __________.

analogous

5. The very familiar story of King David and his affair with Bathsheba leads to the murder of her husband Uriah. The man of God, Nathan, comes to David and tells him about a rich man with many flocks who takes a poor man's only lamb to serve to his guests. Apparently David doesn’t see it coming, and declares out of his own mouth that the rich man should die for his actions. That's when Nathan said to him "Thou art the man"!

What a shocker! David must've recognized the ___________ right away -- how it was Bathsheba who was the "lamb" that Uriah loved. Nathan went on to tell him about the consequences of his action and David acknowledged his sin.

allegory

6. “Candidate Jane Jones' proposal X is ridiculous. She was caught cheating on her taxes in 2003.”

This error in logic is known as _____.

ad hominem argument

7. A type of diction involving grammar, pronunciation, and spelling errors is known as _______.

dialect

8. "She picked purple peppers” employs ________.

alliteration

9. The literal, dictionary definition of a word is known as _________.

denotation

10. "Like the prodigal son, he returned to his home town and was welcomed by all who knew him."

The underlined section is a Biblical ________.

allusion

11. Discussing his novel A Farewell to Arms during an interview, Ernest Hemingway stated that he had to rewrite the ending thirty-nine times. When asked what the most difficult thing about finishing the novel was, Hemingway answered, "Getting the words right.”

The author was having a _______ problem.

diction

12. “Followers are to a leader as planets are to a sun” is an example of _________.

analogy

13. A far-fetched simile or metaphor, this device occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things. In the following example from Act V of Shakespeare's Richard II, the imprisoned King Richard compares his cell to the world in the following lines:

“I have been studying how I may comparethis prison where I live unto the world.”

conceit

14. A travel diary that is kept in the order in which the trip occurs is written in ______________.

chronological order

15. John Donne commands, "Oh, Death, be not proud" in one of the most famous ________ of all time.

apostrophes

16. A well-known example of ______ is the Beatitudes in the Bible, where nine statements in a row begin with "Blessed are." ("Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.")

anaphora

17. In the film The Green Mile, a clock in the execution room is a quartz clock. The quartz clock was invented in 1927 by Warren Morrison and was not even used in laboratories until the 1940s. So it is implausible that a quartz clock was used in a prison in 1935, making the clock a/an ________________.

anachronism

18. Calling something pleasant or pleasing is _____________, while calling something yellow or sour is concrete.

abstract

19. “But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.”

In the underlined segments of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln utilizes two of our concepts.

What are they?

anaphora and asyndeton

20. In poetic devices, the antonym of abstract is _____.

concrete

21. “Remember, amateurs built the Ark; it was professionals who built the Titanic.”

This sardonic bit of worldly wisdom is a/an __________.

aphorism

22. The American actor Gene Kelly once said, “I do hateful things for which people love me, and I do lovable things for which they hate me.”

The previous statement represents a/an _________.

chiasmus

23. “I'm hunched over emotions just flows over these cold shoulders are both frozen you don't know me.”

These lyrics from the Eminem illustrate which poetic device?

assonance

24. In 1923, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, nearing the end, found himself at a loss for suitably profound famous last words. "Don't let it end like this," he pleaded. "Tell them I said something!”

This sad _______ illustrates the human desire to make an impact with one’s life.

anecdote

25. The words “prime” and “April” illustrate which poetic device?

consonance

26. Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" (1918) offers more examples of which type of diction in poetry--concrete or abstract?

Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pierced-fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

concrete

27. “Short” could have the ________ “tall” if you are referring to a person's height.

antonym