english Vocab Flashcards
ambiguity
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.
allusive method
Placing oneself within a literary tradition, while also rewriting it.
ambivalent
having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
avant-garde
new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
blank verse
unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (five-stress iambic verse)
Celtic Revival
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
ekphrasis
the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.
epigraph
A quotation placed beneath the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem.
epiphany
A moment when a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. (aka realization)
free indirect discourse
a literary technique that combines a narrator’s voice with a character’s perspective
free verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Futurism
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.
gnomon
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)
Imagism
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.
in medias res
adv. into the middle of the narrative
intertextuality
how texts echo, respond to, and transform other texts
limited point of view
a narrative perspective where the story is told solely through the eyes of one character.
manifesto
A public declaration or proclamation, written or spoken; art manifestos are a public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views.
Modernism
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
New Woman
A woman who is considered different from previous generations.
objective correlative
a literary device that uses a set of objects, actions, or circumstances to evoke a specific emotion in the reader.
palinode
a poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem.
paralysis
inability of physical movement, but also spiritual, social, cultural, political, and historical malaise
proleptic
to anticipate or assume that something in the future is already happening.
quotidian
everyday character; commonplace, mundane, ordinary
Realism
is a way of thinking and acting that’s based on facts and what’s possible
sibylline
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
simony
the selling of material goods for spiritual benefit
Vorticism
a modernist art movement in London in the early 1900s.
