English Literature Test 2

A novel which examines values, behaviour and characteristics of a particular group of people with a specific historical context

Cultural novel

Historical novel

Novel of community

Novel of manners

A character who is so average or unoriginal that he or she seems like an oversimplified representation of gender, class, religious group, or occupation

Stereotype

Flat

Round

Orthodox

A song, prayer or speech in honour of God

Hymn

Lyrical

Didactic

Divine poem

A device in which a word in the middle of a line of poetry rhymes with a word at the end of the same metrical line

Internal rhyme

External rhyme

Symmetrical rhyme

Medieval rhyme

A syllable that has a heavy distinction from other syllables when spoken aloud

Stressed

Meter

Foot

Unstressed

The period of time, about a thousand years long, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of the Renaissance

Neoclassical

Medieval

Romantic

Georgian

The rules which dictate the way a sentence in a language is constructed, according to syntax

Grammar

Phrase structure rule

Syntactic rules

Morphological rules

The utilization of pitch changes in spoken language

Prosody

Rhyme

Language variation

Intonation

When another literary work is referred to within a text, suggesting that texts do not exist in a vacuum because there is always relationships between texts, which readers are often aware of

Intertextuality

Interdiscursivity

Abstract text

Referential text

: Poetry which uses logic and reason to construct an 'argument' and draws on other fields such as science, law, philosophy and exploration to describe emotion, often love

Abstract poetry

Pastoral poetry.

Metaphysical poetry

Narrative poetry