Lit terms 41-60 Flashcards
- heroic couplets
Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief;
Ah, more than share it, give me all thy grief.
rhyming pairs of verse in iambic pentameter
42.hubris
Macbeth displays hubris when he thinks he can kill king Duncan and take his throne without any consequences.
extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall.Personality flaw of a character that enjoys a powerful position as a result he overestimates his capabilities to such an extent that he loses his contact with reality, tries to cross the normal human limits and violates moral codes.
43.hyperbole
I’m so tired I think I might die from exhaustion.
a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a statement
44.in media res
The Grey’s episode started with the interrogation of interns over the dead patient and slowly flashed back through the story.
the technique of starting a story in the middle and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier
- juxtaposition
The historians wanted to juxtapose the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties in order to analyze them.
places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another; purpose is to highlight the contrast and compare them
- lilotes
He’s definitely not a brain surgeon.
uses an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions.
- logos
He craftily portrayed a chain of events in order to convince her not to move.
the use of logical appeal for an argument
- metaphor
She was a diamond in the rough.
figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things w/o using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles
- metonymy
The civilians feared that the guns(soldiers) were about to fire.
A figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself
- mock epic
In the mock epic of the Illiad, Achilles was portrayed as a bull chasing down a matador (Hector).
A comic narrative poem that parodies the epic by treating a trivial subject in a lofty, grand manner
- monologue
Othello made a long monologue to the Duke of Venice about how he fell in love with Desdemona.
A long, formal speech made by a character in a play
- mood
The poem was so somber that it instantly made me sad.
The mood or feeling in a literary work
- narrative pace
The narrative pace increased during the climax but extremely slowed down during the resolution.
the speed at which an author tells a story; the movement from one point or section to another
- naturalism
In The Call of the Wild a dog reverts back to his primal instincts.
style of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy, disinterested objectivity, and frankness in depicting life as a brutal struggle for survival.
- ode
The poet wrote a long ode with a chorus that praised the stars.
A complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject
