Final test Flashcards
the emphasis on emotion, reacting against reason, sympathizing with others and appreciating beauty
sensibility
a story with both a literal and an implied level of meaning
allegory
a lyric poem of praise or thankgsgiving to God meant to be sung
hymn
the best-known lyrical structure for hymns that employed quatrains of iambic lines alternating between tetrameter and trimeter
common meter
a perspective in which the narrator stands outside the story and refers to the characters as he, she, they
third-person point of view
a character for whom the reader has favorable feelings
sympathetic character
a unifying recurring element throughout a work or across many artistic works
motif
a question asked not to receive an answer but to achieve an effect
rhetorical question
the unique imprint of an author’s personality on work by which the readers forms an impression of the author
voice
a short narrative of interesting or amusing incidents
anecdote
conversations between characters
dialogue
a reference within a work of literature to something outside it, usually history or another piece of literature
allusion
a perspective in which the narrator refers to himself or herself as I throughout
first-person point of view
a nonfiction account of the life events of a real person other than the author
biography
a character for whom the reader has strong feelings of dislike
unsympathetic character
an autobiographical account of the author’s experience as a slave
slave narrative
a mode of writing formed by a combination of elements such as syntax, diction, figurative language, imagery, tone, and voice
style
a character who changes internally
dynamic character
jarring, discordant sounds
cacophony
a devotion to beauty and therefore, art as the highest human concern
aestheticism
rhymes within a line
internal rhyme
a momentary emotional experience in which readers transcend everyday living and briefly grasp the ultimate of beauty, horror, time, or grandeur
the sublime
grammatical units that flow seamlessly past the line’s end into the next
enjambment
a pause in the middle of a poetic line
caesura
the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby stressed syllables
assonance
the manner of speech diction, grammar, and pronunciation-characteristic of a certain area or class
dialect
a character used to highlight another’s opposing traits in connection with a work’s themes
foil character
a character who does not change
static character
pleasant sounds especially in the phonetic quality of words
euphony
besting another’s remark or turning it to one’s own advantage in a contest of wits
repartee
a nine-line form of poetry using both iambic pentameter and iambic hexameter
Spenserian stanza
a verse form with an interlocking nature that produces a continuous flow
terza rima
the repetition of the terminal (more rarely, internal) constant sounds in words
consonance
a character with extreme emotional capabilities and tendencies
Byronic hero
a brief verbal expression that amuses listeners through clever but unexpected turns of phrase or connections between ideas
wit
a long lyric poem elevated in style and written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion
ode
a poem lamenting a death or loss and death in general
elegy
a poem in which a single character speaks, usually to himself or another character, about a particular topic or incident at a critical moment in his life
dramatic monolgue
a character the author creates and inhabits momentarily
persona
the belied in the survival of the fittest in socirty
social dawnism
realistic fiction that emphasizes characterization by focusing on character’ underlying thought processes and motivations
psychological realism
a play that satrizes the social customs of a sophisticated society
comedy of manners
a brief nonfiction prose compostition that argues for a thesis regarding a particular subject
argumentative essay
a shoretened sonnet form
curtal sonnet
a lyric poem in which a character speaks to a silent audience about a critical moment in his life. The poem focuses on the character of the speaker, which is revealed entirely and unintentionally by what he says
dramatic monologue
is a variation of strong-stress meter. Strong stresses may directly follow each other or be interrupreted by one to three lesser stresses
sprung rhytm
originating in sentimental literature this genre is medieval in setting; gloomy, mysterious, and nightmarish in the atmosphere, as well as suspenseful and often supernatural in the plot
gothic
a lyric poem or song greeting the dawn and often expressing the regret of two lovers at parting
aubade
a form of shock humore derived from treating grotesque serious or morebid situtations comically
black humore
two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and the sounds that follow these words are at the ends of lines of poetry
end rhyme
a sudden, revelatory insight into some aspect of life or reality that springs from an ordinary person, object or event
epiphany
to hint at events that occur later within a story
forshadowing
type of stream of consciousness narration expressing a character’s inner thoughts
interior monologue
the emotion pervading a work
mood
agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward, with a difference in the immediately preceding constant sound
perfect rhyme
this type of rhyme shows agreement in terminal constant
slant rhyme
a type of writing in which the author attempts to reproduce the flow of thoughts in a character’s mind with little attention to grammar or logic
stream of consciousness
words that convey not just their dictionary definitions but also the speaker’s emotional or evaluative tone toward his subject
connative language
in the neoclassical style, a refined word choice that often elaborately rephrased ideas to avoid everyday language
poetic diction
the belief that human reason rather than divine relation or human authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action is the philosophy of
rationalism
which concept is defined as a time when it was thought that society had emerged from centuries of superstition and crudity into the light of reason
the enlightenment
on which two issues did Parliament disagree with charles
the divine right to kings and catholicism
to what religious group did Cromwell belong
puritan
which work is James Boswell best known for
the life of Samuel Johnson
what term does Johnson apply to the following dictionary
“One who countenances supports, or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery”
patron
in his criteria for good literature in Rambler No.4, Johnson discourages against what
inclusion of sympathetic villains
In Rambler No.4 what does Johnson claim to be the “highest proof of understanding”
virtue
what information was Boswell concerned that Johnson did not know about him when Mrs. Davis introduced him in “The life of Samuel Johnson”
Boswell’s home country, Scotland
according to “the life of Samuel johnson,” what element of Johnson’s death was very important to him
that he die with a clear mind and soul
the central motif of the pilgrim’s progress compares
life to journey
in the pilgrim’s progress, the narrator presents the story as something that
he dreamed
at which location in the pilgrim’s progress does Bunyan incorporate a biblical allusion to Christ’s temptation by Satan
vanity fair
Burn’s “To a mouse” uses which of the following to communicate his perspective on man’s hopes and more broadly his nationalism and devotion to the common man and nature
a rural dialect and colorful images
Burns makes use of what literary device in the following quote from “to a mouse”
“Wi’ bickering brattle!”
alliteration
Burn’s “A red, red rose” exhibits what literary device in the following excerpt
“And I will luve thee still,my dear,/ Till a’ the seas gang dry”
hyperbole
Burns’s use of what literary device is evident in the following exceprt from “A red,red rose”
“O my luv’s like the melodie/ That’s sweetly play’s in tune”
simile
in the following excerpt from A vindication Wollstonecraft makes what kind of rhetorical appeal
“Thank to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason”
ethos
in a vindication, what does Wollstonecraft call for
woman to be considered equal with mean and to have equal access to education
in pride and prejudice, which of Lizzy’s characterisics does Mr. Bennet distinguish as setting her apart from her sister
her intellengence
how does Austen indirectly develop Bingley’s character in “pride and prejudice”
- be relating his actions at the ball,
- by Bennet’s dialogue about his reputation
- by his own dialogue with darcy at the ball
what did the authors of the victorian era exhibited
they exhibted an unprecedented degree of social mobility in achieving literary success
