English Flashcards
Theme
Recurring ideas
Figurative language
Language used on more than one level (symbolism, simile, metaphor)
Simile
An expressed comparison using words “Like” or “as” (Makes you think)
Metaphor
A SUGGESTED comparison that compares two dissimilar things (makes you feel)
Repetition
Use of repeated words or phrases throughout a work
Eupony
Refers to words that are pleasant to the ear
Parallelism
Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses or sentences
Cacophony
Harsh to the ear
Tenor
The main object, or character. Of a metaphor (direct comparison not using “like” or “as”) is the origin being subject.
Vehicle
The image the tenor is being compared to.
Implied comparison
Metaphors that are indirectly conveyed (makes you think)
Extended Metaphor
Metaphors developed beyond a single sentence or comparison. (Metaphors that you have to trace through stories)
Allegory
A type of extended metaphor that has multiple layers of meaning and symbolism. Like “The animal farm”
Metonymy
An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself. Saying “The white house” referring to the prestandant.
Synecdoche
using part of something to stand for a whole “Jack got some new wheels” He actually got a new car
Personification
gives human characteristics to something not human
Apostrophe
Literature that addresses an absent person, abstraction, or object. (like you talk to a dead person)
Emily Dickinson Wrote poetry about what?
Nature
In “The Return of the Rangers” what is the main ideas
Man vs. a Greater Force
Who was the author of “The Return of the Rangers”
Kenneth Roberts
In “The Return of the Rangers” what pgycial objects do they have to get over?
fallen trees
In “The Return of the Rangers” what did they go looking for?
Food: Squril And quil
In “The Return of the Rangers” Who leads the team back?
Rogers
Who is the hero of “The Return of the Rangers”
Major Roggers
In Mother to son what is the tenor and vehicle
Tenor: Life
Vechicle: stairs
Theme Of “Mother and Son”
Theme: Keeping your best in a hard life
who wrote Mother to Son
Langston Hughes
Mother to son Is…
A meataphor
The souls dark cottage is written by who?
Edmund Waller
In “The souls dark cottage” what does the cottage repersent?
Your old body
In “The souls dark cottage” what is the Theme
Talks about death in a positive view
Who wrote “The windows?”
George Herbert
In “The window” what two things are compared?
Compares the stain glass to a christan showing Gods truth and his love
What is the Vechile in “The window”
The glass window
What is the tenor in “The window”
The chariteristics of a christan
Who wrote “The spider and the Wasp?”
Alexander PetrunkeVitch
Who is the smarter spechies in “The spider and the wasp”
The wasp but the spider produces more so its all good
The wasp is what color?
Rust
In “The Nightingale and the Glow Worm” what kind of poetry does the worm represent?
Wisdom
In “The Nightingale and the Glow Worm” what kind of poetry does the Nightingale represent?
for fun
Why are they both important?
Because God made them both
In “What stumped the Blue Jay” what trait does the blue jay have?
Communication
Who wrote “what stumped the blue jay”
Mark twain
What was mark twain known for
Humor
4 steps for writing a paragraph.
- Plan
- Write
- Rewrite
- Edit
1st sentence:
Topic sentence
Summarizing sentence
The clincher uses Keywords (transitional)
Ways to write a phargapharph
- Insidenace
- Reasons
- Compare and contrast
