Match column A with B
| LITERARY TERM [A] |
DEFINITION [B] |
| 1 metaphor |
A) a
general term applied retrospectively to the wide range
of
experimental and AVANT-GRADE trends in the literature
of
the early 20th century, including SYMBOLISM, FUTURISM,EXPRESSIONISM, IMAGISM, VORTICISM, DADA, and SURREALISM, along
with the innovations of unaffiliated writers.
|
| 2 hyperbole |
B)a
mode of writing that gives the impression of recording or
'reflecting' faithfully an actual way of life. The term refers,
sometimes confusingly, both to a literary method based on detailed
accuracy of description and to a more general attitude that
rejects idealization, escapism, and other extravagant qualities of
ROMANCE in favour of recognizing soberly the actual problems of
life.
|
| 3 modernism |
C)a
highly conventional mode of writing that celebrates the innocent
life of shepherds and shepherdesses in poems, plays, and prose
ROMANCES. Pastoral literature describes the loves and sorrows of
musical shepherds, usually in an idealized Golden Age of rustic
innocence and idleness; paradoxically, it is an elaborately
artificial cult of simplicity and virtuous frugality.
|
| 4 pathetic fallacy |
D) an
explicit comparison between two different things, actions,
or feelings, using the words 'as' or 'like'
|
| 5 decorum |
E)a
sweeping but indispensable modern term applied to the profound
shift in Western attitudes to art and human creativity that
dominated much of European culture in the first half of the 19th
century, and that has shaped most subsequent developments in
literature—even those reacting against it.
|
| 6 realism |
F)
openness
to different interpretations; or an instance in which some use of
language may be understood in diverse ways.
|
| 7 Romanticism |
G)
the
most important and widespread FIGURE OF SPEECH, in which one
thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression
normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest
some common quality shared by the two.
|
| 8 ambiguity |
H)a
standard of appropriateness by which certain styles, characters,
forms, and actions in literary works are deemed suitable
to one another within a hierarchical model of culture bound by
class distinctions.
|
| 9 pastoral |
I)exaggeration
for the sake of emphasis in a FIGURE OF SPEECH not meant
literally. An everyday example is the complaint 'I've been waiting
here for ages.'
|
| 10 simile |
J)the
poetic convention whereby natural phenomena which cannot feel as
humans do are described as if they could: thus rainclouds may
'weep', or flowers may be 'joyful' in sympathy with the poet's (or
imagined speaker's) mood.
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ANSWERS
1-G
2-I
3-A
4-J
5-H
6-B
7-E
8-F
9-C
10-D
