First semester exam Flashcards
What is the presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?
Irony of the situation
What is a strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor? On it the two objects being compared are so dismissal that the comparison becomes incongruous.
Conceit
What is a short narrative song written in stanzas?
Ballad
What is the use of words which appeal to our senses?
Imagery
What is a reference to mythology?
Allusion
What is an unrhymed iambic pentameter?
Blank Verse
What is an approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same?
Alliteration
What is the corresponding of sounds?
Rhyme
What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal?
Personification
What is the regular recurrence of a sound?
rhythm
What is the line in poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables?
Foot
What is the ridicule of a human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it?
Satire
What suggests meaning or association of a word?
Consonance
What is iamb foot?
[unaccented][accented]
Ex: “I ám” “A wáy”
What type of writing style did the colonial era of writing use
Plan, simple, and giving providence to God
What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?
Metaphor
What is the repetition of sounds?
Assonance
What is the occurrence of rhythm at regular intervals?
Meter
What is using words which sound like what they mean?
Onomatopeia
What is anapest?
[unaccented][unaccented][accented]
Ex: sibling being a PEST
What is the reputation of accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry?
End Rhyme
What were most of the writings of the colonial era recorded in?
Diaries and journals
What is dactyl foot?
[accented][unaccented][unaccented]
Ex: a ptyraDACTYL (the accent mark is the head and the unaccented marks are the wings)
What is saying the opposite of what is meant?
Verbal Irony
What was the first printed book in the US?
The bay psalm book
What is it called when an all-knowing author is the narrator, who comments freely in the actions and characters?
Omniscient Point of View
What is it called when the author presents the characters in action with no comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them?
Objective Point of View
Name the knickerbockers
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant
What is spondee foot?
[accented][accented]
Ex: 2 SPoons
What kind of writer was James Fenimore Cooper?
A novelist
What did James Fenimore Cooper write?
The leather-stocking tales
What did John Winthrop write?
The history of New England
What did William Bradford write?
Of Plymouth plantation
Who loved John Smith?
Pocahontas
Who was the first port to write verse in America?
Anne Bradstreet
What is trochee foot?
[accented][unaccented]
Ex: “máy be”
What is the contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?
dramatic Irony
What is it called when the author tells the story of one character, using either first person or third person?
Limited Point of View
Where was Roger Williams from?
Rhode Island
What was Anne Bradstreet’s quote to remember?
“thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain!”
What did John Smith write?
The general history of Virginia and a true relation of Virginia
Where was William Bradford from?
Plymouth
What did Michael Wigglesworth write?
The day of doom
What was the type of writing that William Cullen Bryant used?
Apostrophe
What did Edward Taylor write?
Meditation one
What did Anne Bradstreet write?
Verses upon the burnin of my house
Where was John Winthrop the governor of?
Massachusetts
Who was the most widely read Puritan poet?
Michael Wigglesworth
What kind of writer was William Cullen Bryant?
Poet
Who was the best Puritan poet, but the least popular in terms of reading
Edward Taylor
What did William Cullen Bryant write?
Thanatopsis( a meditation on death)
What type of writing did Washington Irving do?
Short stories
Where was Edgar Allen Poe from?
BALTIMORE SQUAD REP FAM
What did Phyllis Wheatley write?
On being a slave from Africa
What writing wrote with the focus of exposing sin and guilt?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What type of writing did Edward Taylor use?
Metaphysical conceit
What did Washington Irving write?
Sleepy hollow and Rip van Winkle
What stories/poems did Edgar Allen Poe write?
A dream within a dream, Annabel Lee, the Raven, and the pit and the pendulum
What did Benjamin Franklin write?
Autobiography, and poor Richards almanac
What book was said to had sparked the American civil war ( per Abraham Lincoln’s words )
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who was governor of Massachusetts bay colony?
John Winthrop
Who was governor of Rhode Island?
Roger williams
Who wrote the rules to making a good short story?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
