Final Flashcards
A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning
Allegory
The repetition of similar consonant sounds within a group of neighboring words or lines. Often initial consonant sounds are repeated. This poetic device often increases the musical effect of the language
Alliteration
A reference within a work of literature to something outside it
Allusion
A force or character who struggles against the protagonist
Antagonist
A brief statement, often witty, that expresses a principle, truth, or observation about life
Aphorism
The addressing of non personal object as if it were able to reply
Apostrophe
A short, simple narrative song
Ballad
A nonfiction account in which the author tells the true events that makeup the life of a real individual other than himself
Biography
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Major pauses within lines
Caesura
Drama that ends happily
Comedy
A of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two dissimilar things
Conceit
The opposition of two or more characters or forces; the three main conflicts are man against man, man against himself, and man against a greater force
Conflict
Two consecutive lines in poetry, often wrong then in iambic pentameter, with end words that rhyme
Couplet
Regional variations within the same language, as spoken in different areas of a country
Dialect
A poem in which the main character addresses an identifiable by silent listener at a time of crisis in the speakers life
Dramatic monologue
A mournfully contemplative poem that mourns death of someone, or the loss of something
Elegy
A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line
Enjambment
A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero
Epic
A metaphor that is developed beyond a single sentence or comparison
Extended metaphor
An artful deviation from literal speech or normal word order
Figurative language
A story originally in oral tradition
Folktale
A literary device that supplies clues that hint at later plot developments
Foreshadowing
A literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story
Frame story
The use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens
Irony
A form of poetic imagery commonly found in Anglo-Saxon. A metaphorical phrase or compound word that is used to indirectly name a person, place or thing
Kenning
A short, melodic, personally expressive poem
Lyrical poetry
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry
Meter
Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of other. In stricter ways, it is the stated or implied equivalence at two things
Metaphor
The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not person
Personification
The main character of the story
Protagonist
The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of scemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary of unpleasant in life
Realism
A reaction agonies the cultural climate and values of neoclassical. It insisted on the greater importance of individualism, imagination, nature, and the distant
Romanticism
Corrective ridicule in literature or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule
Satire
A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature
Theme
The belief that human reason than revolution or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for search
Rationalism
An ethical system developed by Jeremy Bentham based on the human desire for pleasure rather than pain and, politically, on the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number
Utilitarianism
A reverence for tradition as a source of authority of values in religion, morality, or art
Traditionalism
The preference for an uncivilized life, either for the simple, rustic life4 an earlier era or for the “natural” existence of present-day tribal communities
Primitivism
A movement originating among the German disciples of Immanuel Kant that sought a higher religious view than Christianity and higher artistic deal the neoclassicism
Transcendentalism
Romantic pessimism as expressed in philosophy, religion, and ethics. Agnostic, relativistic, and antiauthoritarian, it regards with God and the external world as unknowable; denies the existence of all values external to the individual; and holds that the assertion of the will is necessary to selfhood
Existentialism
Belief that there is a multiparty of view points and that no single view point is universally valid
Pluralism
Instruction in literature
Didacticism
The Old English Period
450 to 1100
The Middle English Period
1100 to 1485
The Tudor Period
1485 to 1603