Terms Flashcards
American Dream
Invented by Ben Franklin
-any man can become successful, have economic security, and respect through HARD WORK and HONEST DEALINGS
Allusion
A brief reference to a historical person, event, place, thing, or ideal.
Anti-transcendentalist
Society corrupts Humans naturally bad Nature = unexplainable -Hawthorne -Melville
Archetype
And image, motif, or pattern that occurred so regularly in history, lit, or religion as TO AQUIRE IT’S OWN SYMBOLIC FORCE
Quest- hero on quest with sidekick or mentor
Initiation- journey, returns older and wiser
Calvinism (and TULIP)
All about dat PREDESTINATION Total depravity (all sin) Unconditional election (god chosen) Limited atonement (Jesus die 4 ^) Irresistible grace (chosen no say no) Preservation of ST. (Can't lose salv.)
Conceit
Extended metaphor
-goes on for entire poem
Connotation
An ideal or dealing that a word encodes in addition to its actual meaning.
Deism
God is the clockmaker
- made world and left it
- reason and nature
Denotation
The dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word
Enlightenment
Reason (can do anything)
All humans are equal by nature
-sep church and state
Foil
Another character in a story who contrasts with the main character usual to highlight on of their attribute
Genre
A type of literature
Hubris
A great or foolish amount of PRIDE or SELF CONFIDENCE
Local color
Specific details describing the DIALECT, DRESS, CUSTOMS, and SCENERY associated with a region during a certain time
Romanticism
EMOTION over reason
- man and nature is good
- Bryant
- Poe
- Emerson
- Thoreau
- Dickinson
- Whitman (free verse)
