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| story or tale with two or more levels of meaning- a literal level and a symbolic level |
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| refrence to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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| brief story about an intresting, amusing, or strange event. the excerpts from The Names and Walden included many anecdotes |
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| figure of speech in which the speaker directly adresses an absent person or a persinified quality, object, or idea |
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| form of nonfiction in which a person tells his/her own life story (Benjamin Franklin) |
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| act of creating and devolping a character |
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| author simply states a character's triats |
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| indirect characterization |
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| character is revealed through words, thoughts, or actions of the character, descriptions of the characters appearance or background; the ways other characters react to him/her; what other characters say about him/her |
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| pair of rhyming lines; a 2 line stanza |
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| form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. Twain's Huck Finn is one of the earliest American novels to accuretely reflect the various dialects of certain regions in the south |
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| a division or type of literature ( fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama) |
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| the use of primitive, medieval, wild, or mysterious elements in literature. Edgar Allen Poe's "Pit and the Pendulum" has many gothic elements |
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| deliberate exaggeration or overstatment; "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet contains elements of exaggeration and examples of hyperbole (water of al the rivers cannot quench the thirst/fire of her love/..."worth more than all the riches that the east doth hold") |
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| line of poetry with 5 iambic feet |
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| line of poetry with 4 iambic feet |
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| desciptive or figurative language used to creat word pictures for the reader (appeals to the 5 senses) |
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| contrast between what is stated and what is meant or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens; the reader expects a parent to protect his/her child, so the characters of Pap Finn or Aurthur Dimmesdale create irony |
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| fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the causes of natural phenomena |
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| speaker or character who tells the story |
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| poem that tells a story; "The Raven" is 1 example of this type of poem |
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| passing of songs, stories, and poems from generation by word of mouth; most Native American myths have come to us through oral tradition |
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| figure of speech that combines 2 opposing or contradictory ideas |
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| type of writing in which uncomplicated sentances and ordinary words are used to make simple direct statements; puritans were known for this type of writing |
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| perspective or vantage point from which a story is told |
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| repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
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| regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
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| pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language |
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| literary and artistic movements in the 19th century that arose as a reaction to the Neoclassicism of the 28th centuryl writers placed a premium on emotions, nature, individuality, and exotica, and imagination. |
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| figure of speech that makes a direct comparison using "like" or "as" |
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| anything that stands for or represents something else; in Moby Dick the whiteness of the whale symbolizes the pure innocence of nature |
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| central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work |
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| American literary and philosophical movement of the 19th century which promoted the idea that individual conscience and intuition transcend experience and are thus a better guide to truth |
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