Lit terms 61-75 Flashcards
61.Parody
SNL did a parody of “Someone Like You” with Tina Fey crying at a desk.
The imitation of a work of literature, art, or music for amusement or instruction
62.Pathos
The SPCA commercial uses pathos by showing sick or injured dogs.
Persuading by appealing to reader’s emotions
63.Personification
The cold slithered into every corner of the house.
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or had life.
64.Propaganda
The poster said,” Big Brother is Watching You”
ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.
65.Protagonist
Katniss is the protagonist of the Hunger Games
the main character in a novel, play, movie, etc.
66.Puritanism
The Puritans lived apart from the modern world with horse drawn carriages and no electricity.
the beliefs and practices of people who follow very strict moral and religious rules about the proper way to behave and live
67.Quatrain
Our Proposal poems consisted of four quatrains.
A four-line stanza or poem or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme.
68.Realism
Realists such as Mark Twain perceived a person as a person.
In Literature and art, the attempt to depict people and things as they really are, without idealization.
69.Refrain
The refrain of a song is the chorus.
a phrase or verse that is repeated regularly in a poem or song
70.Rhetoric
The presidential candidate used his rhetoric in order to convince people to vote for him.
the art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people
71.Romanticism
Jane Eyre is considered a Romantic era book.
A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that developed as a reaction against neoclassicism in the late eighteenth century and dominated the early nineteenth century.
72.Satire
Family Guy uses satire to ridicule aspects of society.
A kind of writing that rididcules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform.
73.Simile
Her voice was like nails on chalkboard.
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, than, or resembles
74.Situational Irony
In East of Eden, Adam living off of stolen irony could be considered situational irony.
Occurs when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.
75.Soliloquy
Iago delivers a soliloquy in order to explain why he’s so angry at Othello.
A long speech in which a character who is usually alone onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings.
