5 Written Questions

1. a movement in 19th century painting, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or moments in time
2. a release of emotional tension
3. A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.
4. the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase
5. mixed feelings or emotions

5 Matching Questions

1. epistolary
2. pastoral
3. trochee
4. foil
5. cadence

1. a a recurrent rhythmical series
2. b a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
3. c written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
4. d a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
5. e anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
   1. denouement
   2. antecedent
   3. understatement
   4. denotation
2. using a part of something to represent the whole thing
   1. apostrophe
   2. panegyric
   3. trochee
   4. synecdoche
3. plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless
   1. trochee
   2. synaesthesia
   3. apostrophe
   4. theater of the absurd
4. a witty saying
   1. pastoral
   2. epigram
   3. epiphany
   4. elegy
5. substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads')
   1. realism
   2. metonymy
   3. persona
   4. euphony

5 True/False Questions

1. poetic justice → involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

   True        False

2. elegy → specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

   True        False

3. foot → anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

   True        False

4. refrain → a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

   True        False

5. denouement → the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

   True        False