Poetic metre & literary analysis

1. In Aristotle’s Poetics, what term describes the tragic flaw or error of judgement that brings about a protagonist’s downfall: hamartia or metre?

2. What poetic technique occurs when a sentence or phrase runs over from one poetic line into the next without terminal punctuation: enjambment or end-stopping?

3. What term from Greek tragedy describes the emotional cleansing or release of pity and fear experienced by the audience at the end of a tragedy: catharsis or exposition?

4. What is a brief, indirect reference in a text to a well-known historical, mythological or literary figure or event: an allusion or an illusion?

5. In drama, what is a speech delivered by a character alone on stage that reveals their innermost thoughts aloud to the audience: a soliloquy or a dialogue?

6. What do we call poetry that follows neither a regular metrical pattern nor a fixed rhyme scheme: free verse or blank verse?

7. What do we call a strong pause or break within the middle of a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation such as a period, dash or semicolon: a caesura or a refrain?

8. What narrative technique presents a character’s continuous, associative flow of inner thoughts and sensory impressions without conventional transitions: stream of consciousness or omniscient summary?

9. What is a narrative in which characters and events systematically stand for abstract moral, political or philosophical ideas beyond the literal story: an allegory or a biography?

10. In classical tragedy, what Greek term describes excessive pride or self-confidence that leads a tragic hero to ignore warnings and suffer a downfall: hubris or ethos?

11. What literary genre traces the psychological and moral growth of a protagonist from youth to maturity (a “coming-of-age” novel): a Bildungsroman or a pastoral?

12. What is the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the ends of nearby words (such as “blank and think” or “stroke of luck”): consonance or hyperbole?