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Unit 2 Set 2 Lit Terms Flashcards

1
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Your personal feelings about: “Friendship”
“Sports”
“Edgar Allan Poe”

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Personal Essay

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a short, witty statement, often in couplet form

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Epigram

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He knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.”
~Anonymous

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Epigram

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words used apart from their ordinary, literal meanings in such a way as to add freshness, conciseness, and vitality to them—-figures of speech.

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Figurative Language

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direct address of a person not living or present, of inanimate objects, or of abstract qualities.

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Apostrophe

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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”

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Apostrophe

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a hint given to the reader of what is to come.

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Foreshadowing

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the sounds of words are similar but not identical

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Slant rhyme/off rhyme/half rhyme

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heard / roared

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Slant rhyme/off rhyme/half rhyme

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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.

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Parable

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Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”

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Parable

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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.

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Anecdote

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13
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a prayer, song, or poem for the repose of the dead.

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Requiem

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Melville’s poem, “Shiloh: A Requiem”

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Requiem

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a poem or part of a poem that describes and idealizes country life.

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Idyll

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Whittier’s poem, “Snowbound”

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Idyll

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a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them.

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Analogy

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18
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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.

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Analogy

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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.

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Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

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Longfellow’s poem, “Nature”

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Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

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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.

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Shakespearean (English) Sonnet

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22
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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Sonnet III” from Second April 1921.

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Shakespearean (English) Sonnet

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a four-line stanza.

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Quatrain

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an eight-line stanza.

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Octave

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a six-line stanza.

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Sestet

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the basic unit of meter in poetry. A foot is made up of one stressed syllable and, usually, one or more unstressed syllables.

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Poetic Foot

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a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, as in the word
“around”

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Iamb

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a foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in the word
“broken.”

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Trochee

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a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable, as in the phrase “in a flash.”

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Anapest

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a foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in the word “argument.”

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Dactyl

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The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. This pattern is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line.

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Meter

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Scansion is the process of analyzing a poem’s metrical pattern. When a poem is scanned, its stressed and unstressed syllables are marked to show what poetic feet are used and how many feet appear in each line.

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Scansion

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The last two lines of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore” may be scanned as follows:
But I / shall find / the sul / len rocks / and skies
Unchanged / from what / they were / when I / was young.

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Scansion

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verse written in five-foot lines:

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Pentameter

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I doubt / not God / is good, / well-mean / ing, kind,
And did / He stoop ? to quib / ble could / tell why
The lit / tle bur / ied mole / contin / ues blind
~”Yet Do I Marvel,” Countee Cullen

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Pentameter

36
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verse written in one-foot lines

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Monomer ear

37
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Evil
Begets
Evil

~Anonymous

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Monometer

38
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verse written in two-foot lines

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Dimeter

39
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This is / the time
Of the trag / ic man
~”Visits to St. Elizabeth’s,” Elizabeth Bishop

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Dimeter

40
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verse written in three-foot lines:

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Trimeter

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Over / the win / ter glaciers
I see / the sum / mer glow,
And through / the wild- / piled snowdrift
The warm / rosebuds / below.
~”Beyond Winter,” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trimeter

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verse written in four-foot lines:

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Tetrameter

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The sun / that brief / Decem / ber day

Rose cheer / less ov / er hills / of gray.
~”Snowbound,” Whittier

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Tetrameter

44
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verse written in six-foot lines:

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Hexameter

45
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This is the / forest pri / meval. The / murmuring / pines and the / hemlocks
~”Evangeline,” Longfellow

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Hexameter

46
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a foot in which the last syllable is accented as in the Iamb or the Anapest.

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Rising Meter/Rhythm

47
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Iam / bics march / from short / to long.
With a leap / and a bound / the swift An / apests throng.
~Samuel Coleridge (English Author), from his poem on poetic feet.

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Rising Meter

48
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a foot in which the first syllable is accented, as in a Trochee or Dactyl.

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Falling Meter

49
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Trochee / is in / falling / double,

Dactyl is / falling, like— / Tripoli.
~Samuel Coleridge (English Author), from his poem on poetic feet.

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Falling Meter

50
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atmosphere—the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Elements that can influence the mood of a work include its setting, tone, and events.

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Mood

51
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the use in a literary work of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area. It can be created by the use of dialect and by descriptions of customs, clothing, manners, attitudes, and landscape. Local Color authors include Bret Harte and Mark Twain.

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Local Color

52
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a section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of eventstorelateaneventfromanearliertime. Awritermaypresentaflashbackasacharacter’s memory or recollection, as part of an account or story told by a character, as a dream or a daydream, or simply by having the narrator switch to a time in the past.

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Flashback

53
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a poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent listener.

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Dramatic Monologue

54
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T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

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Dramatic Monologue

55
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explores the meaning of an important experience in the writer’s life. In this kind of expressive writing, specific narrative and descriptive details help to make the experience seem real to the reader.

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Personal Essay

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