Unit 2 Set 2 Lit Terms Flashcards
Your personal feelings about: “Friendship”
“Sports”
“Edgar Allan Poe”
Personal Essay
a short, witty statement, often in couplet form
Epigram
He knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.”
~Anonymous
Epigram
words used apart from their ordinary, literal meanings in such a way as to add freshness, conciseness, and vitality to them—-figures of speech.
Figurative Language
direct address of a person not living or present, of inanimate objects, or of abstract qualities.
Apostrophe
Beware, O asparagus, you’ve stalked my last meal. You look like a snake and slip down like an eel. I’d prefer drinking a bottle of turpentine,
Rather than eating a tidbit so serpentine.
~Wanda Fergus, “Vegetables I Hate”
Apostrophe
a hint given to the reader of what is to come.
Foreshadowing
the sounds of words are similar but not identical
Slant rhyme/off rhyme/half rhyme
heard / roared
Slant rhyme/off rhyme/half rhyme
a short narrative that draws a moral lesson or illustrates a religious truth. It resembles an allegory in having an obvious moral intention. Unlike an allegory, however, a parable need not have characters or objects that stand for abstract qualities.
Parable
Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Parable
a very short story that is told to make a point. Many anecdotes are humorous; some are serious. Ben Franklin tells several anecdotes in his Autobiography, and Mark Twain tells several amusing ones in his Life on the Mississippi.
Anecdote
a prayer, song, or poem for the repose of the dead.
Requiem
Melville’s poem, “Shiloh: A Requiem”
Requiem
a poem or part of a poem that describes and idealizes country life.
Idyll
Whittier’s poem, “Snowbound”
Idyll
a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them.
Analogy
Longfellow’s poem, “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”—in this poem Longfellow draws an analogy for the sake of illustration where he compares the repeated rise and fall of the tide to the passage of time and human life.
Analogy
a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. The Italian sonnet has two parts, an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines. It is usually rhymed abbaabba cdecde. The two parts of the Italian sonnet play off each other in a variety of ways. Sometimes the octave raises a question which the sestet answers. Sometimes the sestet opposes what the octave says or extends it.
Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet
Longfellow’s poem, “Nature”
Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet
a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean sonnet, a form made famous by William Shakespeare, consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a concluding couplet (two rhyming lines), with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. In a typical Shakespearean sonnet, each quatrain is a variant of the basic idea and the couplet draws a conclusion about it.
Shakespearean (English) Sonnet
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Sonnet III” from Second April 1921.
Shakespearean (English) Sonnet