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Correct Answer-meter What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter? Correct Answer-blank verse How are blank verse and free verse different? Correct Answer-blank verse has a defined meter, while free verse doesn't How many total syllables do you find in a line of iambic pentameter? Correct Answer-10 The pattern of five sets of unstressed/stressed iambs is called... Correct Answer-iambic pentameter Who made free verse popular among American poets? Correct...

CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature Exam 3 Genres - Answer-Poetry Prose Drama 3 Forms of Literary Expression - Answer-American Literature British Literature Works in Translation Prose - Answer-The most common form of written language following natural speech patterns and grammatical structure Phonic - Answer-Pertaining to sound from speech Fiction - Answer-Imaginary narrative; the information or events are created by the author Non-Fiction - Answer-Writing that delivers fa...

CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature Exam 3 Genres - Answer-Poetry Prose Drama 3 Forms of Literary Expression - Answer-American Literature British Literature Works in Translation Prose - Answer-The most common form of written language following natural speech patterns and grammatical structure Phonic - Answer-Pertaining to sound from speech Fiction - Answer-Imaginary narrative; the information or events are created by the author Non-Fiction - Answer-Writing that delivers fa...

Verse -->A single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose). Stanza -->In poetry , a group of lines set off by space; also referred to as a verse. Rhyme Scheme -->Pattern of repetition of rhyme within a poem designated by aabb or abab, where the letter a marks the first line and all other lines rhyming with it. End Rhyme -->Repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, found in the final syllable( s) of the lines of poetry. Internal Rhyme -->One o...

Act- -->plays are broken down into smaller units of action. Sometimes broken down further into scenes. Is similar to a chapter in a book. Antagonist— -->the character or force with which the protagonist conflicts. Aside- -->words spoken by one character in a play, either directly to the audience or to another character, that the other characters supposedly do not hear. Audience- -->the group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed. It might be a specific age group o...

In this passage the metaphor in "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth" suggests which of the following? - Answer-Birth is the beginning of death. Life is a struggle which ends in death. Reddening on a high branch Right at the very top And the fruit-pickers Have overlooked it - Answer-when left unadulterated, the results are enhanced Just as the hyacinth - Answer-dactylic trimeter dactylic trimeter - Answer-the line is composed of a stressed syllable followed by two light syllables a...

Accentual meter - stressed rythmic structure of poetic lines Agon - "struggle" portagonist/antagonist a formal debate (comedy) Alexandrine - 12 syllable line written in iambic hexameter Allegorical - a narrative that is an extended metaphor the elements of the narrative carry significance on a literal and a figurative level alliteration - repetition of initial consonants in consecutive words or in words close to each other allusion - a reference to a person,place, or thing from another...

CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature Exam 3 Genres - Answer-Poetry Prose Drama 3 Forms of Literary Expression - Answer-American Literature British Literature Works in Translation Prose - Answer-The most common form of written language following natural speech patterns and grammatical structure Phonic - Answer-Pertaining to sound from speech Fiction - Answer-Imaginary narrative; the information or events are created by the author Non-Fiction - Answer-Writing that delivers fa...

The number of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called... - Answer-meter What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter? - Answer- blank verse How are blank verse and free verse different? - Answer-blank verse has a defined meter, while free verse doesn't How many total syllables do you find in a line of iambic pentameter? - Answer-10 The pattern of five sets of unstressed/stressed iambs is called... - Answer-iambic pentameter Who made free...