American Lit Vocab (days 11-20) Flashcards
1
Q
the way a writer writes
A
style
2
Q
statement in concise and witty manor
A
aphorism
3
Q
form a narrator tells story through
A
voice
4
Q
the language w/ no formal metrical structure
A
prose
5
Q
line with 6 feet
A
hexameter
6
Q
the angle of considering things
A
point of view
7
Q
the authors mouthpiece
A
persona
8
Q
a history self-told
A
autobiography
9
Q
consists of three iambic feet
A
trimeter
10
Q
two unaccented, short syllables
A
pyrrhic
11
Q
abstract ideas & principles are characters and events
A
allegory
12
Q
attitude of the writer
A
tone
13
Q
use of informal words or slang
A
colloquiallism
14
Q
poetry w/o regular meter or fixed rhyme
A
free verse
15
Q
repetition of the first part of a sentence
A
anaphora
