english Vocab

Question 1

ambiguity

Answer 1

the use of a single word or expression to signify two or more distinct references, or to express two or more diverse attitudes or feelings.

Question 2

allusive method

Answer 2

Placing oneself within a literary tradition, while also rewriting it.

Question 3

ambivalent

Answer 3

having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Question 4

avant-garde

Answer 4

new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.

Question 5

blank verse

Answer 5

unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (five-stress iambic verse)

Question 6

Celtic Revival

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also known as the Irish Literary Renaissance, identifies the remarkably creative period in Irish literature from about 1880 to the death of W. B. Yeats in 1939

Question 7

ekphrasis

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the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.

Question 8

epigraph

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A quotation placed beneath the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem.

Question 9

epiphany

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A moment when a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. (aka realization)

Question 10

free indirect discourse

Answer 10

a literary technique that combines a narrator’s voice with a character’s perspective

Question 11

free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 12

Futurism

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Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.

Question 13

gnomon

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the stylus of a sundial that marks off time with shade can also be stretched to refer to the missing detail of the story. (also fragmemation)

Question 14

Imagism

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short lived poetic movment, imagism refers to an avoidance of romantic or symbolic abstraction in favor of a clear, precise presentation of the visual image.

Question 15

in medias res

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adv. into the middle of the narrative

Question 16

intertextuality

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how texts echo, respond to, and transform other texts

Question 17

limited point of view

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a narrative perspective where the story is told solely through the eyes of one character.

Question 18

manifesto

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A public declaration or proclamation, written or spoken; art manifestos are a public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views.

Question 19

Modernism

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a cultural movement that began in the late 19th century and lasted through the mid-20th century.
. Rejection of tradition
.experimentation
.new forms of expression
.focuses on human expression

Question 20

New Woman

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A woman who is considered different from previous generations.

Question 21

objective correlative

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a literary device that uses a set of objects, actions, or circumstances to evoke a specific emotion in the reader.

Question 22

palinode

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a poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem.

Question 23

paralysis

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inability of physical movement, but also spiritual, social, cultural, political, and historical malaise

Question 24

proleptic

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to anticipate or assume that something in the future is already happening.

Question 25

quotidian

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everyday character; commonplace, mundane, ordinary

Question 26

Realism

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is a way of thinking and acting that’s based on facts and what’s possible

Question 27

sibylline

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resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.

Question 28

simony

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the selling of material goods for spiritual benefit

Question 29

Vorticism

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a modernist art movement in London in the early 1900s.