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American Literature Final Exam
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Literature
Undergraduate 3
12/10/2011

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Meter
Definition
Recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern
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Rhythem
Definition
Pattern in the beat of stresses in the stream of sound
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Foot
Definition
The unit of rhythem in verse, accented and unaccented syllables
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Iambic foot
Definition
One unaccented & then one accented syllable
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Trochaic foot
Definition
One accented & then one unaccented syllable
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Anapestic foot
Definition
Two unaccented & then one accented syllable
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Dactyic foot
Definition
One accented & then two unaccented syllabels
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Spondaic foot
Definition
Two accented syllables (usually a substitute foot)
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Line Lenght
Definition
and indication of the number of feet per line
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Monometer
Definition
one foot per line
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diameter
Definition
two feet per line
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trimeter
Definition
three feet per line
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tetrameter
Definition
four feet per line
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pentmeter
Definition
five feet per line
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hexameter
Definition
six feet per meter
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heptameter
Definition
seven feet per meter
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Alexandrine
Definition
and Iambic hexameter
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Iambic pentameter
Definition
most common meter in English
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Caesura
Definition
A break or pause within a lineopoetry
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enjambment
Definition
one line of poetry carries over to the next line in thought and punctuation
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End-stopped line
Definition
The thought ends or pauses at the end of the line of poetry
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Rhyme
Definition
Identity in sound of the last vowel and all following sounds, with different preceeding consonants
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Rhyme Scheme
Definition
Pattern of rythmes at ends of lines, using letters to indicate same and different rhymes
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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of consonant sounds at beginnings of syllables
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Assonance
Definition
Repition of vowel sounds in stressed syllabels
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Cacophony
Definition
A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds
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Euphony
Definition
pleasing sounds
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onomatopoeia
Definition
words whose sounds suggest their meanings
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Blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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couplet
Definition
A pair of end-rhyming lines
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
pairs of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
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Free Verse
Definition
Non-traditional metrical composition in which the cadence of recurring words and images, rather than traditional meter, produces rhythm
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Quatrain
Definition
a four-line stanza
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Sonnet
Definition
A fourteen-line lyric, usually written in iambic pentameter
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Petrachan (Italian) Sonnet
Definition
consist of an octave (8 lines abba abba)and a sestet (6 lines using son combination of cderhymes) often presents a problem-solution in the two parts
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Shakespearean (English) Sonnet
Definition
Consist of 3 quatrains and a couplet (abab cdcd efef gg)
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Alusion
Definition
A brief refernece to an earlier writing of a historical event
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Anticlimax
Definition
vilation od expectations that occurs when something unimortant appears fo occures where something important is expected
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Apostrophe
Definition
speaking to something or someone that cannot hear or relpy as though it could
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Chiasmus
Definition
inverted parallelism (A-B;B-A) two balanced parts with the second part having reversed order
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Conceit
Definition
A striking or elaborate comparison of dissimilar things; an ingeniously formulated (often extended) metaphor
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Hyperbole
Definition
Deliberate exageration for effect; overstatement
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Image
Definition
Concrete presentation of a sense experience
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Irony
Definition
Differnce between appearence and reality
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Sarcasm
Definition
A type of verbal irony in which one says the opposite of what he means
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Dramatic Irony
Definition
Occures when the reader knows things the characters do not
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Situational Irony
Definition
Occures when the expectations of the reader or the character or both are violated
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Metaphor
Definition
an implied comparison; referring to one thing in terms of another
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Metonymy
Definition
refering to oner thing in terms of an associated object
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Paradox
Definition
an apparent contradiction
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Personification
Definition
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
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Oxymoron
Definition
A two-word paradox
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Polyptoton
Definition
The repetition in close proximity of words that have the same roots; may involve the same word used as a different part of speech or words that are related but not the same
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Simile
Definition
an explicit comparison using 'like' or 'as'
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Symbol
Definition
A figurative expression that means something in addition to itself
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Synecdoche
Definition
using part of something to refer to the whole thing
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Synesthesia
Definition
Mixing the senses
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Understatement
Definition
saying less than you mean
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Litotes
Definition
A type of understatement in which we affirm something by denying it's opposite
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Genre
Definition
Type or category of literature
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Narrative
Definition
Account in prose or poetry of a real or imagined event (story)
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Prose fiction
Definition
Story drawn from its writer 's imagination
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Novel
Definition
Extended prose fictional narrative
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Picaresque novel
Definition
An early form of the novel, usualy a first person narrative, relating the adventures of a rouge or low-born adventure as he drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in his effort to survive
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Romance
Definition
Extended fictional work allowing the free play of the author's immagination
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Gothic romance of terror
Definition
Extended prose fictional narrative with a medieval of other past setting, an atmosphere of mystery and terror, and possible supernatural events
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Short story
Definition
Brief fictional prose narrative
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Lyric
Definition
Verse expressing personal feelings
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Elegy
Definition
A formal poetic Meditation on death or another solemn topic
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Special forms or modes
Definition
Allegory, Satire
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Allegory
Definition
A story with at least two sustained and carefully correlated levels of meaning
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Satire
Definition
Correvtive ridicule; uses wit or humor to point out himan waskenss
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Puritanism
Definition
The movement to purify existing church institutions... Didactic, functional, spiritally realisic, and sometimes metaphysical
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Metaphysical Poetry
Definition
Highly inellectual poetry including unusual imagery, paradox, rough diction, and conceit
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Neoclassicism
Definition
18th C. attitude of respect for classical form and learning and for human reason... tends to be rationalistic
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Deism
Definition
Rationalistic religion accepting God's natural law, but insisting upon man's autonomy in practical affairs
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Poetic Diction
Definition
Language appropiate only for poetry, a neoclassical concept
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Literary Nationalism
Definition
Favoring the development of an indigenous literary tradition
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Romanticism
Definition
19th C movement favoring emotion, intuition, nature, symbolism, primitivism, and organic form
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Primitivism
Definition
Belief that uncultured man is capable of greater purity than civilized man
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Gothicism
Definition
Unsing mystical, bizarre, supernatural elements to create an atmosphere of horror, frequently including Gothic architecture
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Transcendentalism
Definition
Belief that truth is attainable from sources above reason (intuition), a romantic development
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Unitarianism
Definition
Anti-Trinitarian religion, a ramification of rationalism, but popular during the romantic era
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Sentimentalism
Definition
Expression of exessive emotion
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Didactism
Definition
Tending to teach; especially instruction in moral, ethical, or religious matters
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Ambiguity
Definition
Expressing an idea in language that gives more than one possible meaning
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protagnoist
Definition
The main character, center of interest
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Antagonist
Definition
The opposite to the main character
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Climax
Definition
Point of highest interest or excitement
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Crisis
Definition
Turning point in the plot
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D`enouncement
Definition
Untying the final outcome of the main dramatic complication, follows crisis
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Verisimilitude
Definition
The appearance to truth or actuality
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Point of view
Definition
Vantage point from which an author tells his story
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Tone
Definition
The author's attitude toward his audience and subject as envinced in his writing
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atmosphere
Definition
Predominant emotion that a work produces, feeling reader shares with the characters
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Theme
Definition
Central or dominating idea in a literary work
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Motif
Definition
A recurrent image, word, phrase, or action that contributes to the unity of a work
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