Literary Terms

5. An elephant’s opinion carries a lot of weight. (This is an example of what literary term?)
6. A reference to a well-known work of art found in a piece of literature
8. An image, character, or event recurrent in the literature of diverse cultures.
11. a style of art, literature, etc., during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that emphasized the imagination and emotions.
13. An exaggeration used for effect
15. Chef Barbara babies her best baking students
17. Saying that Mr. Curiale is “vertically challenged” rather than saying he’s short
18. An apparent contradiction of terms. Jumbo shrimp
19. A nineteen line poem with two rhymes throughout consisting of five tercets and a quatrain. “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
20. A pause or break within a line of verse. Often due to spacing or punctuation.
22. Wall Street took a beating today. This phrase is an example of:

1. Pain – Again; said - paid
2. A style that eliminates all superfluous rhetoric and emotion.
3. Funereal poem. A poem in honor or lamenting the dead
4. A movement to get away from the Romantics. 20th century literary era that included avant-garde writing and experimentation with stream of consciousness
7. The continuation of a sentence in a poem so that it spills over from one line to the next.
8. Invoking a person or entity that is not present.
9. The overreaching pride that leads to the downfall of a hero.
10. The firehouse burned down
12. a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.
14. three line stanza
16. This movement towards the order and decorum of the Greeks was rebelled against by the Romantics.
18. a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
21. 14 lines, rhyming iambic pentameter. Ababcdcdefefgg