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Literary Terms Final Exam Study Guide
Questions |
Answers |
The school year is a marathon |
Metaphor |
Foreboding (predicting danger) |
Portentous |
"Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn" in Medea |
Theme |
To move back or away |
Recede |
"I can see where your coming from, but you are wrong because..." |
Refutuation |
My friends and I are closer than Lilo and Stitch |
Allusion |
Where Creon wanted to send Medea; forced from one's home |
Exile |
To become weak or feeble |
Languish |
Still waters shivered in the wind. |
Personification |
The straight A student tried to ______________________ his 4.0 by studying hard for all his exams |
Retain |
A dark sky representing a character's feeling |
Symbolism |
When a character talks to him or herself |
Soliloquy |
Not studying for finals is _________________________ to your grade |
Pernicious |
To discourage; to make fearful or uneasy |
Dismay |
The audience knowing Juliet just drank a sleeping potion but Romeo thinking she's dead |
Dramatic Irony |
The severity of a student't punishment depend on the _______________________ |
Transgression |
To return to a previous habit or condition |
Revert |
To use words to create a meaning other than the actual meaning |
Irony |
; To make something already developed greater |
Augment |
To keep |
Retain |