English Final Flashcards
Allusion
A reference to another literary work or to a person, event, or thing; an indirect reference that assumes prior knowledge.
Satire
A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
Couplet
A pair of sequential lines that rhyme.
Great Awakening
A period of intense spiritual examination and renewal in the life of colonial America” which was “marked by charismatic preaching, enthusiastic conversion experiences, and intense controversy
Iambic Pentameter
The most common meter in English - 5 sets of syllables that include an unstressed then a stressed syllable.
Detective Fiction
A genre in which the focus of the story in on the investigation of a crime or mystery by a detective.
Gothic
A genre characterized by a general mood of decay, suspense, and terror; action that is dramatic and generally violent or otherwise disturbing; loves that are destructively passionate; and landscapes that are grandiose, if gloomy or bleak
Autobiography
A genre in which an author tells their own life story.
Personification
Writing that describes or treats an inanimate object, abstract idea, or non-human living thing as if it were human.
Elegy
A sad poem or song, especially remembering someone who has died or something in the past.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not have a consistent/regular meter or consistent rhyme scheme and does not follow a specific poetic form.
Prose Poem
A short composition employing the rhythmic cadences and other devices of free verse (such as poetic imagery and figures but printed wholly or partly in the format of prose, i.e., with a right-hand margin instead of regular line-breaks
Harlem Renaissance
An artistic movement whose “participants celebrated the uniqueness of African-American poetry, fiction, drama, essays, music, dance, painting, and sculpture”
Realism
A mode of writing that gives the impression of
recording or ‘reflecting’ faithfully an actual way of life
Naturalism
literary movement . . . that represented people in a
deterministic and generally pessimistic light as products of
heredity and environment
Foil
A character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize
those of the protagonist (or of some other character) by
providing a strong contrast with them
Epigraph
A quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book,
chapter, or poem as an indication of its them
Modernism
work that represents the evolution of traditional society
under the pressures of modernity, and that transforms
traditional literary forms in doing so
Magical Realism
A kind of modern fiction which fabulous and fantastical
events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains
the ‘reliable’ tone of objective realistic report
Regionalism
Term applied to literature which emphasizes a special
geographical setting and concentrates upon the history,
manners, and folkways of the area as these help to shape the
lives or behavior of the character
Bildungsroman
A kind of novel that follows the development of the heroor
heroine from childhood or adolescence into adulthood,
through atroubled quest for identity.
Quatrain
A stanza of poetry that is four lines long.
Meter (Poetic Meter)
The formal term for the rhythm of poetry.
Feet
A chunk of a meter (each line in a poem)
iamb
Two-syllable Feet:
an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Slave Narrative
An autobiography focusing on the life, enslavement, and eventual freedom of a formerly enslaved person.
Ballad Meter
A poetic meter in which for each set of four lines, the first and third lines have four stresses, while the second and fourth have three stresses.
Autobiography Texts
Benjamin Franklin, Samson Occom, Harriet Jacobs
Gothic Texts
Nathaniel Hawthorne - My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher
Charlotte Perkins Gillman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Satire Texts
Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorne - My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Oral Story Definition
Oral storytelling is telling a story through voice and gestures.
Robert Frost
Acquainted with the night
Stephen Crane
A girl of the streets, Maggie
Mark Twain
Million Pound banknote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The yellow wallpaper
Sui Sin Far
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
T.S Elliot
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Countee Cullen
Heritage
Nella Larson
Passing
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Rudolfo Anaya
Bless me Ultima
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography
“The Autobiography of benjamin Franklin”
Jonathan Edwards
Sermon
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Samson Occom
Autobiography
“A Short Narrative of My Life”
Anne Bradstreet
Autobiography and Ballad Meter
“Verses Upon the Burning of our House”
Ballad Meter
“The Flesh and the Spirit”
Phillis Wheatley
Iambic Pentameter
“Thoughts on the Works of Providence”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gothic and Satire
“My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
Washington Irving
Gothic and Satire
“Rip Van Winkle”
Edgar Allan Poe
Gothic
“The Fall of House Usher”
Detective Fiction
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Harriet Jacobs
Autobiography
Slave Narative
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
Herman Melville
Gothic and Satire
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
Walt Whitman
AutoBiography and Free Verse
“The Wound-Dresser”
Elegy
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Emily Dickinson
Gothic and Ballad Meter
“There’s a Certain Slant of Light”
Gothic and Ballad Meter
“Because I Could not Stop for Death”
