FREE ACADEMIC VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES

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FREE ACADEMIC VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES

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Question 1: broken rhyme

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The breaking of a word at the end of a line for the sake of a rhyme

Question 2: blues

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An African-American folk song developed in Southern US. characteristically short (3 lines), melancholy, frequent repetition, sung slowly in minor mode.

Question 3: triolet

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A simple French verse of 8 lines. The first two are repeated as the last two and the first line also recurs as the fourth. There are only 2 rhymes.

Question 4: Negative Capability

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A celebrated phrase put forward in a letter (December 1817) by John Keats "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"

Question 5: medievalism

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A spirit of sympathy for the Middle Ages, along with a desire to preserve or revive certain qualities of medieval life.

Question 6: epic

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a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures, forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race

Question 7: picaresque novel

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A chronicle --usually autobiographical -- presenting the life story of a rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wits than his industry.

Question 8: unanimism

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a movement associated with "Jules Romains" in the first part of the 20th century, emphasizing the collective spirit in society and even in language

Question 9: meter

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The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern or the rhythm established by the regular occurrence of similar units of sound

Question 10: miracle play

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A nonscriptural play based on the legend of a saint or on a miracle performed by a saint or sacred object.

Question 11: fused rhyme

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A rhyme sound is begun at the end of a line but not completed until the beginning of the next

Question 12: emendation

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A change made in a literary text by an editor for removing error or supplying a supposed correct reading that has been obscured or lost through textual inaccuracy or tampering.

Question 13: hyperbole

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Exaggeration for effect or used for humor

Question 14: anadiplosis

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a kind of repetition in which the last word or phrase of one sentence or line is repeated at the beginning of the next

Question 15: trivium

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The three studies leading to the bachelor's degree in the medieval universities: grammar, logic and rhetoric

Question 16: diasporic

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Writing having to do with any scattering of a population from a homeland to one or more alien environments

Question 17: paragoge

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The addition of an extra letter, syllable, or sound at the end of a word, as in dearie for dear.

Question 18: resonance

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the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating:

Question 19: phanopoeia

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term coined by Ezra Pound; the power of language to cast visual images onto the mind or imagination

Question 20: idyll

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A term describing one or another of the poetic genres that are short and possess marked descriptive, narrative, and pastoral qualities.

Question 21: Theater of Cruelty

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A concept from the 1930s by Antonin Artaud; theater is a ceremonial act of magic purgation.Demonstrates human beings' inescapable enslavement to things and hoped to raise the the theater to a level of religious ceremony.

Question 22: historical criticism

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approaches work in terms of the social, cultural and historical context in which it was produced.Objective is to lead the reader into a responsive awareness of the meaning the work had for its own age.

Question 23: spin

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a rhetorical disposition applied to a statement or situation to shape its reception and interpretation, most frequently applied to political rhetoric

Question 24: sketch

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a brief composition presenting a single scene, character, or incident. Lacks plot and deep characterization.

Question 25: jeremiad

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A work that foretells destruction because of the evil of a group

Question 26: stich

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A word or stem meaning "line"