English Test 1 (Literature) Flashcards
What are recurring or emerging ideas in a work
Theme
What is language used on more than one level of meaning
Figurative language
What is an expressed comparison using the words “like” or “as”
Simile
What is a suggested comparison that compares two dissimilar things
Metaphor
The ___?___ of a metaphor is the original subject being described
Tenor
The ___?___ is the image the tenor is being compared to
Vehicle
What are metaphors that are indirectly conveyed
Implied Comparison
What are metaphors developed beyond a single sentence or comparison
Extended Metaphor
What is a type of extended metaphor that has multiple layers of meaning and symbolism
Allegory
What is an expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself
Metonymy
What uses a part of something to stand for the whole
Synecdoche
What is an extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
What is the opposite of what is expected
Irony
What is saying the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm)
Verbal Irony
What is the use of repeated words or phrases throughout a work
Repetition
What is similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses or sentences
Parallelism
What refers to words that are pleasant and musical to the ear
Euphony
What describes language of harshness
Cacophony
What gives human characteristics to something that is not human
Personification
What is literature that addresses absent person, abstraction, or object
Apostrophe
Who wrote “A bird Came Down the Walk”
Emily Dickinson
Who wrote “The Spider and the Wasp”
Alexander Petrunkevitch
Who wrote “The Nightingale and the Glowworm”
William Cowper
What kind of imaginative comparison is “The Nightingale and the Glowworm”
Allegory
Who wrote “What Stumped the Bluejays”
Mark Twain
What kind of imaginative comparison is “What Stumped the Bluejays”
Personification
Who wrote “The Return of the Rangers”
Kenneth Roberts
Who wrote “Mother to Son”
Langston Hughes
What kind of imaginative comparison is “Mother to Son”
Metaphor
Who wrote “The Soul’s Dark Cottage”
Edmund Waller
What kind of imaginative comparison is “The Soul’s Dark Cottage”
Metaphor, for what happens to a person’s soul and body as he grows older
Who wrote “The Windows”
George Herbert
What is the imaginative comparison in “The Windows”
Metaphor, for Christians
