Midterm Flashcards
Under the Lion’s Paw
Hamlin Garland
The Atlanta Exposition Address
Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
To Build a Fire
Jack London
Editha
William Dean Howells
A White Heron
Sarah Orne Jewett
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Adventures of Huck Finn
Mark Twain
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
Daisy Miller
Henry James
Serepta Mason
Trainor the Druggist
Abel Melvany
Edgar Lee Maters
Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
Robert Frost
After Apple Picking
Robert Frost
Birches
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
Desert Places
Robert Frost
From Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
Sonnet
Poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter
Dynamic Character
Character who undergoes a significant change in a story
Flat character
One whose nature is summed up in one or two traits
Round character
One with a complex, many-sided personality
Static character
One who is the same at the end of the story as at the beginning
Stock Character
One who is stereotyped, taken from prototypes in previous lit.
Alliteration
Repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds
Allusion
Reference to previous work of literature
Assonance
Repetition of similar vowel sounds
Iambic pentameter
Poetic meter, five stressed syllables per line
Dramatic monologue
A lyric poem ft. a one-sided conversation in a dramatic setting
Conceit
Elaborate, extensively developed metaphor which may be intellectually complex, far-fetched, or strained in its execution
