Honors British Literature Test #1

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9 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

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Refrain
Repeated line or lines in a poemlike a chorus in music
Stanza
Poem subdivision like a paragraph
Satire
Writing that ridicules or scorns foolishness in people, society, or institutions
Hyperbole
Exageration
Motif
Theme, idea, situation, symbol, character, type, or image found in many works
Theme
The full idea about something
Dubitatio
Rhetorical device in which a speaker says he or she is unqualified to talk about something, but essentially does anyway
Occupadio
A rhetorical device in which a speaker says he or she won't talk about something but essentially does anyway
Fabliau
Obscene humorsimplepresent timesettings are familiarcharacters are ordinarymoral people are foolsimmoral people are heroic