english mid term Flashcards
“She said she died of heart disease of joy that kills”
Kate Chopin- story of an hour
“They rose when they enter i have no taxes in jefferson”
Faulkner- Rose for emily
“Unless my all my science has deceived me your are fit for heaven without death”
Dan Hawthorn-The Birthmark
“Fiction is that is developed through gloom terror and darkness”
Gothic
A short passage spoken in an undertone
Aside
Characters contrasting for effect
Foil
4 Feet of poetry is known by this phrase
Tetraminta
My mistress eyes 14 lines and written in the form of what
Sonnet
The use of one sense to describe an another is called
Sinestesia
The author’s attitude toward places and people is known as what?
Tone
Moment when someone reaches a revelation
Epiphany
So much depends on this Glazed with the rain water beside the white chickens
Red wheelbarrow by william carlos williams
My soul has grown deep like the rivers
The negro speaks the river by houston hugh
The negro speaks the river 4 rivers used in text
Nile, euphrates, congo, mississippi
“Rage, Rage, against the dying of the light”
Do Not go gentle into the night - dylan thomas
Changes through course of action
Dynamic character
This presents courageous individuals when in defeat or death
Tragedy
Saying one thing and meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification
Speech given my character by on stage solo
Sylilique
When poets place themselves in their poetry they are using what
Persona
“I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss”.
Othello shakespeare
“The crimson hand”
The birthmark
A character who does not change throughout action
Static
A reference made to something widely known
Allusion
He was a gentleman from soul to crown clean favored and imperially slim
Richard Corey
They all knowing narrator is known as what point of view
Ominouision
The yoking together of opposites is known by what
Oxymoron
“She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car as her heart laid down forever.”
Dog deaths by john updike
The author says one thing but the author means the opposite
Dramatic irony
An extended metaphor
Metaphysical conceit
a statement or situation that seems contradictory or opposed to common sense, but may actually be true
Paradox
