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Final Review
Lit./Lit. Terms
22
English
11th Grade
12/19/2007

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Narrative
Definition

a story or an account of a sequence of events in the order in which they happened.

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archaic language
Definition
ancient language that's no longer in use (uncommon)
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Diction

Definition
word choice
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syntax

Definition
the grouping of words and sentences (sentence structures)
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allusion
Definition

an indirect reference that's made or implied

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allegory
Definition
Εa symbolic of meaning in symbolic expression of meaning in story: the symbolic expression of a deeper meaning through a story or scene acted out by human, animal, or mythical characters.
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metaphor
Definition
a comparison made by using figurative language
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extended metaphor
Definition
a metaphor extended throughout a stanza of a poem or passage.
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simile
Definition
a comparison made by using like or as
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satire
Definition

ridicules human follies and sometimes is humerous

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aphorisms

Definition

Aphorism: luck comes most to those who need it. Old Man and the Sea

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Irony
Definition

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

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rhetorical questions
Definition

A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.

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anecdote
Definition
a short story or life experience often used to prove a point
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analogy
Definition
a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
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Where did Romanticism have its roots

 

Definition

the movement began in europe

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Attributes

Definition
  • imagination over reason
  • reverence for the archaic or ancient
  • youthful inocence to educated sophistication
  • sees poetry as higghest expression of the imagination
  • nature=purity, civilization=corruption
  • A hero of some sort
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American Fireside Poets known for?
Definition
comfortable subjects appealig to families
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American Romantic writers believed that poetry was?
Definition

the greates witness to the power of imagination

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Author of "Rip Van Winkle"
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Washington Irving
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William Cullen Bryant
Definition
  • Wrote thanatopsis > a meditation on death (at 17)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Definition
  • Famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" and many other works
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