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Unit 2 Set 1 Lit Terms Flashcards

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—used car salesman with slicked back hair & plaid jacket —“the butler did it” murder mystery

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Stereotype

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inverted word order for emphasis, rhyme, or rhythm

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Anastrophe

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Wrecked is the ship of pearl . . . “

~Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Chambered Nautilus”

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Anastrophe

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figurative language in which a part is used for the whole or the whole is used for a part

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Synadoche

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  • –“the dying year” used for “autumn”

- –“Wall Street” used for the “money market” or the “financial affairs of the entire United States”

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Synedoche

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the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

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Rhythm

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iambic pentameter ˘ ́/ ˘ ́/ ˘ ́/ ˘ ́/ ˘ ́

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Rhythm

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the term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is.

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Irony

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when a character says one thing but means something else.

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Verbal Irony

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an occurrence that is different from what is expected

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Irony of Situation

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when there is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows to be true.

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Dramatic Irony

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a fact is expressed less emphatically than it could be

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Understatement

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method used to describe characters by revealing physical traits and personality.

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Characterization

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repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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—“The road was a ribbon of moonlight . . . “
~Alfred Noyes,
“The Highwayman” ~Tongue Twister
—The river rose rapidly with a roaring sound

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Alliteration

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repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds

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Assonance

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made / mail

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Assonance

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repetition of consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds

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Consonance

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bear / more – letter / mutter – frail / feel

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Consonance

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words whose sounds imitate the natural sounds of an object or animal

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Onomatopoeia

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hiss / mew

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Onomatopoeia

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a movement or tendency in art, literature, and music reflecting the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Classicism emphasizes the traditional and the universal, placing value on reason, clarity, balance, order.

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Classicism

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Declaration of Independence

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Classicism

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a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. Romanticism essentially upholds feeling and the imagination over reason and fact. It favors the picturesque, the emotional, the exotic, and the mysterious.

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Romanticism

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good and perfectible, as in the transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau
—lit that glorifies nature and upholds the notion that people are basically —lit that investigates the dark side of the human soul, as in stories of Poe

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Romanticism

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verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank Verse

27
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William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern

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Free Verse

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Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

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Free Verse

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a break or pause in a line of poetry which contributes to the rhythm of the poem.

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Caesura

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William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopis”:

“Go Forth,// under the open sky,//and list…”

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Caesura

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rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry.

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Internal rhyme

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Poe’s “The Bells!”:

“To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! . . . “

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Internal rhyme

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a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities—has two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

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Allegory

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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible; Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidgger’s Experiment,” and “Young Goodman Brown”

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Allegory

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any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.

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Symbol

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a rose is a symbol of love or beauty

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Symbol

38
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a word or expression that is not meant to be interpreted in a literal sense (more than 200 types).

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Figures of Speech

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a figure of speech using exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect.

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Hyperbole

40
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Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,”:

“ . . . and a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels . . .”

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Hyperbole

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a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself.

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Metonymy

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“Three sails came into the harbor”

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas

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Oxymoron

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“sweet sorrow”

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Oxymoron

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traditional songs, myths, legends, fables, fairy tales, proverbs, and riddles composed anonymously and either written or passed down orally

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Folklore

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a struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.

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Conflict

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between two persons, between a person and society, between a person and nature

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External Conflict

48
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Jack London’s “To Build A Fire”

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External Conflict

49
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between two elements struggling for mastery within a person

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Internal Conflict

50
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Bernard Malamud’s “The First Seven Years”

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Internal Conflict

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the representation of an inanimate object, animal, or idea as a human being by giving it human qualities

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Personification

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The sun smiled on the earth.

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Personification

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conventional character, plot, or setting—predictable

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Stereotype

Hon. American lit. (5 decks)

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