ENG 151 study guide
[A slumber did my spirit seal] - correct answer-Wordsworth
[Because I could not stop for Death-] - correct answer-Dickinson
[Eastern guard tower] - correct answer-Knight
[I will put Chaos into fourteen lines] - correct answer-Millay
[in Just] - correct answer-Cummings
[My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun-] - correct answer-Dickinson
[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] - correct answer-Shakespeare
[She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways] - correct answer-Wordsworth
[Tell all the truth but tell it slant] - correct answer-Dickinson
[When I consider how my light is spent] - correct answer-Milton
A Good Man is Hard to Find - correct answer-O'Connor
A Rose For Emily - correct answer-Faulkner
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - correct answer-Marquez
act - correct answer-parts of a play
allegory - correct answer-a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden
meaning, typically a moral or political one.
alliteration - correct answer-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words.
allusion - correct answer-an expression designed to call something to mind without
mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
anapestic meter - correct answer-
Anecdote of the Jar - correct answer-Stevens
antagonist - correct answer-a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or
something; an adversary
, Araby - correct answer-Joyce
archetype - correct answer-a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
assonance - correct answer-in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in
nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
(e.g., penitence, reticence ).
bildungsroman - correct answer-a novel dealing with one person's formative years or
spiritual education.
Blackberry Eating - correct answer-Kinnel
Boy and Girls - correct answer-Munro
Cathedral - correct answer-Carver
character - correct answer-a person in a novel, play, or movie.
consonance - correct answer-repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence
or phrase.
dactylic meter - correct answer-
Design - correct answer-Frost
deus ex machina - correct answer-an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly
hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.
dialogue - correct answer-conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,
play, or movie.
Digging - correct answer-Heaney
dramatic irony - correct answer-the expression of one's meaning by using language that
normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Dulce et Cecorum Est - correct answer-Owen
enjambment - correct answer-the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the
end of a line, couplet, or stanza
Exchanging Hats - correct answer-Bishop
external structure - correct answer-form
first person narrator - correct answer-story is narrated by one character at a time
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