English Terms Flashcards
What are the 5 Close Reading Steps?
1: Evaluate - What is your reaction to the text?
2: Interpretation - What is it about?
3: Description - How does it look, what are its formal features?
4: Analysis - How are the formal features working and interacting with the text?
5:Critical Analysis - How do the literary elements mesh with what the words are trying to say?
What is Prosody?
A general term that encompasses all aspects of poetic meter and form
Foot
A basic unit of rhythm within a line
What is Meter
Abstract model for poetic measure (a line consisting of feet)
What is Rhythm
The actual sound and inflection of the words, the free give-and-take of accents, inflections, and pauses within a line.
What is an Iamb?
Unstressed, stressed ( - ‘ )
What is a trochee?
Stressed unstressed ( ‘ - )
What is an anapest?
Unstressed unstressed stressed ( - - ‘ )
What is a Dactyl?
Stressed unstressed unstressed ( ‘ - - )
What is a spondee
Stressed stressed ( ‘ ‘ )
What is a pyrrhic?
Unstressed unstressed ( - - )
What is a Caesura?
A pause in the middle of the line ( || )
What is an enjambment
An overflow into the next line ( ->)
What is ethos
Good character, good will, good judgment
What is Pathos
Understanding the needs of the audience
Logos
Clarity and rationale of argument
Closed couplets
Ex: …shot timorous ray
… must eclipse the day
Open Couplets
…Painting on the wall
Blah blah blah
…Something hall
Assonance
the echoing of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of words with differing consonants
Ex: “His tender heir might bear his memory”
(Same consonant sound repeated)
What is a Ballad Stanza?
he ballad stanza consists of a total of four lines, with the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB
