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Details Title: Romanticism Description: Poe, Irving, Cooper, Melville Total Flash Cards: 5 Created: 12/11/2006 23:35:47	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 tinkle tinkle tinkle Definition alliteration ts to create sound of silver bells represent the pleasant time in his life, the bells are pleasant and joyful Term jingling and tinkling of bells Definition onomatopoeia the words are used to sound like its meaning, the jingling and tinkling enabling the soft pleasant sounds of pleasant bells purpose: the sounds that the words make are pleasant as is the mood at the current part of the poem Term Under one of these gigantic trees according to old stories Definition frame the frame sets the background of the story, gives it a precedence and a foundation. this frame explains Kidd the pirate burying treasure under a gigantic tree, and the devil presided in the area and took it--it was illgotten just as he likes it. kidd never returned the frame is set to make it more plausible Term “…shaped in an unalterable mould like Cellini’s cast Perseus.” Definition Allusion in Moby Dick story of perseus: perseus gets power from gods to kill medusa. statue is made of him holding her head. the statue is of solid bronze and has remained unaltered for a long long time. the statue is fixed and cannot be altered just like Ahab's fixation on the revenge--something that remains unalterable over years. Term “He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire was overunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them…” Definition simile