English Midterm Flashcards
a reference to another literary work or to a person, event, or thing; an indirect reference that assumes prior knowledge
Allusion
“a literary work holding up human vices and follies to
ridicule or scorn”
Satire
A pair of sequential lines that rhyme
Couplet
a period of intense spiritual examination and renewal in the life of colonial America” which was “[m]arked by charismatic preaching, enthusiastic conversion experiences, and intense controversy”
Great Awakening
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”
Gothic
A genre in which the focus of the story is on the investigation of a
crime or mystery by a detective
Detective fiction
The most common meter in English – 5 sets of syllables that include an unstressed and then a stressed syllable (x /).
Iambic pentameter
Writing that describes or treats an inanimate object,
abstract idea, or non-human living thing as if it were
human
Personification
A genre in which an author tells their own life story.
Autobiography
A sad poem or song, especially remembering someone
who has died or something in the past
Elegy
Poetry that does not have a consistent/regular meter or
consistent rhyme scheme and does not follow a specific
poetic form
Free Verse
The formal term for the rhythm of poetry
Meter or Poetic meter
An autobiography focusing on the life, enslavement,
and eventual freedom of a formerly enslaved person
Slave narative
A stanza of poetry that is four lines long
Quatrain
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
Ballad Meter
Deeds of Afterbirth Boy
Oral Story
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”
