Literary Terms Poetry Terms Beloved The Awakening Starts with R
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What is chiasmus?
This syntactical structure is the inverse of parallel structure and means X in Greek.
100
What is a quatrain?
This is what you call a grouping of four lines, either separated as a stanza or sharing a rhyming pattern.
100
What is Sweet Home?
This is the name of Mr. Garner's plantation.
100
Who is Kate Chopin?
This is the author of the 1899 novel
100
Who is Raynell?
She's the daughter of Alberta, Troy, and Rose.
200
What is polysyndeton?
This is an example: "I was tired of cooking and cleaning and ironing and shopping and wiping tears."
200
What is euphony?
This term describes the effect achieved by a harmonious combination of words, usually words with soft vowels and consonants and/or a flowing rhythm.
200
What is Sethe's infanticide by slit throat?
This is how the baby Beloved died.
200
What is painting?
This is the type of art Edna practiced.
200
What is rose?
This is the color of Beloved's headstone.
300
What is synesthesia?
This term indicates the depiction of one sensory experience using language that normally is used to describe one of the other senses.
300
What is blank verse?
It's definition is "unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter," and is found throughout Shakespeare's plays.
300
What is a chokecherry tree?
This is how Sethe describes the scars on her back.
300
What is swimming?
This physical activity from the beginning and end of the novel symbolized Edna's independence.
300
What is Robert Lebrun?
This is the full name of Edna's love interest.
400
What is euphemism?
This is the use of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
400
What is a sestina?
This highly structured poetic form substitutes rhyme scheme for the repetition of six key words at the ends of lines.
400
What is Mister?
This is the name of Paul D.'s arch-rival farm animal.
400
Who is Adele Ratignolle?
This secondary character served as a foil for Edna's ideas about womanhood.
400
What is Reiz?
This is the last name of the piano player in Chopin's The Awakening.
500
What is catharsis?
From the Greek "purification" or "cleansing," this term refers to the purgation of emotions, especially pity or fear, through art, resulting in renewal or restoration.
500
What is a trochee?
This metrical foot has the opposite rhythmic pattern of an iamb.
500
What is stream of consciousness?
This is the style of writing that characterizes much of Toni Morrison's novel.
500
What is the piano?
When Mademoiselle Reisz plays this instrument, Edna is inspired to live a life of passion.
500
Who is Robert Frost?
He is the author of "Birches" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"






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