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English 2nd semester final
final review
76
Language - English
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06/05/2005

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mood
Definition
derived from tone-readers feelings
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tone
Definition
writer's attitude
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tone
Definition
writer's attitude
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simile
Definition
using like or as to compare two generally unrelated things
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protagonist
Definition
"hero" or main character of the story
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antagonist
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the thing, event, or character that causes the main conflict or is a major part of the main conflict
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assonance
Definition
the repetition of similar vowel sounds
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consonance
Definition
the repetition of similar consonant sounds
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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paradox
Definition
a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at 1st to be self-contradictory and un-true
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antithesis
Definition
the balancing of 2 contradicting ideas, words, phrases or sentences
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personification
Definition
giving human-like characteristics to non-human things
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imagery
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words or phrases that create pictures of images in the reader's mind.
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metonymy (met on o me)
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ok the def. for this one sucks so heres the def. witht an explaination that makes sense.
DEF: a figure of speech in which something very closely related with a thing is used to stand for the thing itself. (yeah i know but read the example)
EX: "Three white sails came into the harbor" sails=ship not the sails themself...not literal
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech that substitutes a part for a whole
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motif
Definition
reacurring theme
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point of view
Definition
what person is the story told in
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iamb
Definition
one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllabble
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trochee
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one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllabble
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villanelle
Definition
3line stanzas and a concluding 4line stanza
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Haiku
Definition
5-7-5 (syllable order, 3 lines)
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Imagism
Definition
words or phrases that make pictures (ezra pound)
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Symbolism
Definition
Literary movement in France involving many poets using symbolism in their poetry
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Modernism
Definition
Movement that broke with traditions (early 20th century writers)
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Letimotif
Definition
reaccuring themes
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Bildunsooman
Definition
a "quest" narrative
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Nihilism
Definition
the virtual end of humanity
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Absudist Liturature
Definition
think of the story that the one guy wrote in Ireland about eating the babies to end the hunger problem
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A Modest Proposal
Definition
Author: Johnathan Swift
Content;
-mocks methods Ireland uses to cure the starvation
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Tintern Abbey
Definition
Author: William Wordsworth
Content:
-Man goes back to the abbey & has different reaction when returning. Beauty of nature, nostolgia
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Definition
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Content: warning to the wedding guest
-god's creatures
-respect for nature an life
-sublime
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Pastoral
Definition
a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way
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Alexandrine
Definition
Written in iambic hexameter, last line in spenserian stanza
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Apostrophe
Definition
The adressing of something that isnt present
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Conceit
Definition
An elaborate comparison between two very unalike things
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Metaphor
Definition
A comparison made between unrelated subjects
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Metaphysical
Definition
Abstract and not concrete things put into literature
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Blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Meter
Definition
pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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quadra
Definition
four pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Irony
Definition
The real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words use
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Foreshadowing
Definition
The author is dropping hints on what is to happen later in the plot
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Comic Relief
Definition
The inclusion of a comical character in an otherwise serious work
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Blazon
Definition
To opress by exhaultaion. (Making something seem so great that nothing could be like it thus offending someone)
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Epic
Definition
Long narrative poem
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Kenning
Definition
The juxtaposition of two generally unrelated words that is used as a poetic substitution in Anglo Saxon epics
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Caesura
Definition
A mid-line pause used to keep time in a poem
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Rhyme Scheme
Definition
The rhyme pattern found in a poem
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Prosody
Definition
study of the veriscation in poetry
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Oral Tradition
Definition
A method in which stories and epics such as Beowulf are told
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Frame Device
Definition
Story within a story
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Exemplum
Definition
a short story intended to prove a moral point, almost like a fable, but more religious
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Apologia
Definition
An apology meant to justify something (pardoners tale)
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Fable
Definition
Short story with a moral that has animals in it
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Mock heroic
Definition
Ubsurd characters playing roles of traditional heros (the nuns preists tale)
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Narrative reliability
Definition
Being able to rely on the narrator by what they say and who they are as a person
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Sonnet
Definition
14 linned poem with a strict rhyme scheme
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Petrarchian sonnet
Definition
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE one octave:problem, one sestet:resolution
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG three quatrains:the problem is introduced couplet: epigramatic turn
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Spenserian Sonnet
Definition
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE 8lines in iambic pentameter with the 8th line an alexandrine (hexameter)
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Epigrammatic Turn
Definition
promises some insite on the problem
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Stanza
Definition
A unit within a larger poem
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Couplet
Definition
A pair of lines
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Tercet
Definition
3 lines
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Quatrain
Definition
4 lines
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Cinquain
Definition
5 lines
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Sestet
Definition
6 lines
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Octave
Definition
8 lines
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Archaism
Definition
Relating to a characteristic of a much earlier time (tends to be verbal) ex. thelen riding his mom, uh i mean a horse to school...wait whats the difference....
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Anachronism
Definition
elements are used in historical context that isnt appropriate for the time period that it is written in
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Allusion
Definition
An instance of indirect reference
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Proverb
Definition
a short saying that will often express the basic truth
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Sonnet Sequence
Definition
A bunch of sonnets that have the same controlling idea or are adressed to the same person
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Allegory
Definition
The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters figures or events
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Folk Ballad
Definition
song traditionally sung by the common people
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