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Details Title: English 2nd semester final Description: final review Total Flash Cards: 76 Created: 06/05/2005 18:56:30	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term mood Definition derived from tone-readers feelings Term tone Definition writer's attitude Term tone Definition writer's attitude Term simile Definition using like or as to compare two generally unrelated things Term protagonist Definition "hero" or main character of the story Term antagonist Definition the thing, event, or character that causes the main conflict or is a major part of the main conflict Term assonance Definition the repetition of similar vowel sounds Term consonance Definition the repetition of similar consonant sounds Term hyperbole Definition exaggeration Term paradox Definition a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at 1st to be self-contradictory and un-true Term antithesis Definition the balancing of 2 contradicting ideas, words, phrases or sentences Term personification Definition giving human-like characteristics to non-human things Term imagery Definition words or phrases that create pictures of images in the reader's mind. Term metonymy (met on o me) Definition ok the def. for this one sucks so heres the def. witht an explaination that makes sense. DEF: a figure of speech in which something very closely related with a thing is used to stand for the thing itself. (yeah i know but read the example) EX: "Three white sails came into the harbor" sails=ship not the sails themself...not literal Term synecdoche Definition a figure of speech that substitutes a part for a whole Term motif Definition reacurring theme Term point of view Definition what person is the story told in Term iamb Definition one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllabble Term trochee Definition one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllabble Term villanelle Definition 3line stanzas and a concluding 4line stanza Term Haiku Definition 5-7-5 (syllable order, 3 lines) Term Imagism Definition words or phrases that make pictures (ezra pound) Term Symbolism Definition Literary movement in France involving many poets using symbolism in their poetry Term Modernism Definition Movement that broke with traditions (early 20th century writers) Term Letimotif Definition reaccuring themes Term Bildunsooman Definition a "quest" narrative Term Nihilism Definition the virtual end of humanity Term Absudist Liturature Definition think of the story that the one guy wrote in Ireland about eating the babies to end the hunger problem Term A Modest Proposal Definition Author: Johnathan Swift Content; -mocks methods Ireland uses to cure the starvation Term Tintern Abbey Definition Author: William Wordsworth Content: -Man goes back to the abbey & has different reaction when returning. Beauty of nature, nostolgia Term Rime of the Ancient Mariner Definition Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Content: warning to the wedding guest -god's creatures -respect for nature an life -sublime Term Pastoral Definition a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way Term Alexandrine Definition Written in iambic hexameter, last line in spenserian stanza Term Apostrophe Definition The adressing of something that isnt present Term Conceit Definition An elaborate comparison between two very unalike things Term Metaphor Definition A comparison made between unrelated subjects Term Metaphysical Definition Abstract and not concrete things put into literature Term Blank verse Definition unrhymed iambic pentameter Term Meter Definition pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Term quadra Definition four pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables Term Irony Definition The real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words use Term Foreshadowing Definition The author is dropping hints on what is to happen later in the plot Term Comic Relief Definition The inclusion of a comical character in an otherwise serious work Term Blazon Definition To opress by exhaultaion. (Making something seem so great that nothing could be like it thus offending someone) Term Epic Definition Long narrative poem Term Alliteration Definition The repetition of initial consonant sounds Term Kenning Definition The juxtaposition of two generally unrelated words that is used as a poetic substitution in Anglo Saxon epics Term Caesura Definition A mid-line pause used to keep time in a poem Term Rhyme Scheme Definition The rhyme pattern found in a poem Term Prosody Definition study of the veriscation in poetry Term Oral Tradition Definition A method in which stories and epics such as Beowulf are told Term Frame Device Definition Story within a story Term Exemplum Definition a short story intended to prove a moral point, almost like a fable, but more religious Term Apologia Definition An apology meant to justify something (pardoners tale) Term Fable Definition Short story with a moral that has animals in it Term Mock heroic Definition Ubsurd characters playing roles of traditional heros (the nuns preists tale) Term Narrative reliability Definition Being able to rely on the narrator by what they say and who they are as a person Term Sonnet Definition 14 linned poem with a strict rhyme scheme Term Petrarchian sonnet Definition ABBA ABBA CDE CDE one octave:problem, one sestet:resolution Term Shakespearean Sonnet Definition ABAB CDCD EFEF GG three quatrains:the problem is introduced couplet: epigramatic turn Term Spenserian Sonnet Definition ABAB BCBC CDCD EE 8lines in iambic pentameter with the 8th line an alexandrine (hexameter) Term Epigrammatic Turn Definition promises some insite on the problem Term Stanza Definition A unit within a larger poem Term Couplet Definition A pair of lines Term Tercet Definition 3 lines Term Quatrain Definition 4 lines Term Cinquain Definition 5 lines Term Sestet Definition 6 lines Term Octave Definition 8 lines Term Archaism Definition Relating to a characteristic of a much earlier time (tends to be verbal) ex. thelen riding his mom, uh i mean a horse to school...wait whats the difference.... Term Anachronism Definition elements are used in historical context that isnt appropriate for the time period that it is written in Term Allusion Definition An instance of indirect reference Term Proverb Definition a short saying that will often express the basic truth Term Sonnet Sequence Definition A bunch of sonnets that have the same controlling idea or are adressed to the same person Term Allegory Definition The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters figures or events Term Folk Ballad Definition song traditionally sung by the common people