Which terms describe poetry and its composition, structure, sound, and performance?
Poem, poetry, poet, poetess, poetic, poetic works, compose, poetic licence, line, verse, versify, versification, stanza, rhyme, rhyme with, caesura, stress, syllable, alexandrine, metre, quatrain, blank verse, and recite.
Which genres and forms are included in poetry?
Lyric poetry, narrative poetry or verse, epic, an epic poem, sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, nursery rhyme, and limerick.
Which terms describe critical reviews and criticism?
Review, review something, criticism, a critique, critical, critic, criticize, scathing, in depth, matter-of-fact, prosaic, far-fetched, and stilted.
Which expressions signal opinion or framing in an argument?
In my opinion, in my view, from the point of view, as the author points out, on the whole, by and large, and in a word.
Which expressions introduce clarification or examples?
In fact, a typical example, a case in point, an example of, an instance of, exemplify something, for example, and for instance.
What terms distinguish theatrical activity, dramatic works, and performance spaces?
Drama or theatre, plays or dramatic works, and a theatre building.
Which vocabulary names theatre genres and a company's available works?
Comedy, farce, tragedy, and repertoire.
Which terms describe theatre personnel, production materials, and preparation?
Actors, actresses, playwrights, producers, scripts, stage directions, theatre companies, rehearsals, and casts.
What does an actor do when beginning a performance?
The actor goes on the stage.
Which terms belong to narrative vocabulary for telling or presenting a story?
Tell, relate, recount, narrative, account, and narrator.
Which terms describe a story’s events and development?
Action, plot, unfolding of the plot, denouement, episode, climax, incident, and twist in the plot.
Which terms identify a story’s central idea and principal figures?
Theme, character, hero, heroine, and protagonists.
Which terms are included in figures of speech and wordplay?
Figure of speech, stylistic device, simile, metaphor, metonymy, euphemism, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, malapropism, pun, pun on, humour, humorous, irony, and ironical.
Which vocabulary terms relate to describing or portraying something?
Describe, descriptive, description, portrayal, portrait, portray someone, realism, and realistic.
Which terms relate to symbols and representation?
Symbol, symbolism, symbolic, symbolize, represent something, representation, image, and imagery.
Which terms relate to imagining or depicting something?
Imaginary, imagine, fantasy, and depict something as.
Which terms describe analysis, evaluation, and summarizing?
Analyze, analysis, assess, evaluate, assessment, comment on, commentary on, synopsis, abstract, excerpt, summary, summarize, sum up, quote, interpret, interpretation, express, expression, and be a sign of something.
Which words describe style, originality, or plausibility in evaluation?
Contextual, simple, simply, plain, unadorned, original, inventive, imaginative, racy, and plausible.
Which terms describe striking, convincing, or poor writing?
Verisimilitude, striking, convincing, high-flown, superficial, heavy, laboured, repetitive, long-winded, rambling, hackneyed, commonplace, banal, colourless, and cliché.
Which terms describe pompous, sentimental, or tedious criticism?
Pompous, affected, grandiloquent, sentimental, pathos, boring, tedious, moving, and in a similar vein.
Which terms describe plagiarism, praise, and reader engagement?
Plagiarize, plagiarism, eulogy, praise, eulogize, laudatory, and capture the reader’s interest or attention.
Which phrases mean despite or in spite of something?
In spite of and notwithstanding.
Which expressions organize the stages of an argument?
In the first place, in the second place, now we come to, by way of introduction, it should be noted that, what this means is that, and it follows from this that.
Which expressions qualify claims or shift an argument's topic?
On the one hand … on the other hand, to a certain extent, to some degree, to the extent that, up to a point, concerning, as regards, with respect to, and in relation to.
What terms describe a play's structure and its ending?
Acts, scenes, plot, denouement, and happy ending.
What vocabulary describes assigning and performing a dramatic role?
Stage a play, cast someone as Hamlet, take a part, lead, or supporting role.
What terms describe spoken text and performers' verbal prompts?
Lines, cues, speeches, monologues, and asides.
What elements define the stage environment and its spectators?
The stage, scenery, curtain, and audience.
Which verbs mean suggesting or indirectly referring to something?
Evoke, conjure something up, and allude to.
Which vocabulary terms describe imitation or satirical portrayal?
Impersonate, characterize, satire on, satirical, satirize, and caricature.
Which terms describe a story conveying a moral or abstract meaning?
Allegory, allegorical, and parable.
Answer 14 questions on British Literary Vocabulary.
1. A poem tells the story of a hero’s long series of adventures. Which poetic form best fits this description?
2. A reader pauses deliberately within a line of poetry, creating a break in its rhythm. Which technical term names that pause?
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