Terms Quiz (5/18/16) Flashcards
An imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight. It is designed to produce a single impression and is short enough to be read in one sitting.
Short Story
The author tells the story from the viewpoint of one character, using either first person or third person.
Limited Point of View
A phrase or sentence, which is repeated at intervals, usually at the end of a stanza.
Refrain
An all-knowing author is the narrator, who comments freely on the actions and characters. He is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they think or feel.
Omniscient Point of View
The repetition of ideas in slightly differing form; the construction of two or more thoughts in the same pattern
Parallelism
Made up of two parts, an octave and a sested, which represent a division in thought. The octave has a rhyme scheme abba abba and presents a situation or idea or raises a question; the sestet may have one of several rhyme schemes such as cdcdcd or cdecde or ccddee, and responds to the octave by making a comment, giving an eample, or answering a question.
Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet
The narrator of a poem or other literary work.
Speaker
Rhyme involving two or more syllables.
Feminine Rhyme
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
A group of repeated lines usually containing the same meter and rhyme scheme.
Stanza
Using words which sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
The regular recurrence of a sound.
Rhythm
Sound similarities that occur between words which are not true rhymes.
Approximate Rhyme
The physical background against which the events of the story take place.
Setting
The ridicule of human folly or vice with a purpose of correction it.
Satire
A comparison to which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal.
Personification
The main character in a novel or story; the hero.
Protagonist
A view of life emphasizing man’s aspirations, emotions, individuality, personal experiences, and imagination.
Romanticism
Anonymous songs expressing faith and hope, composed by Negro slaves and plantation workers.
Spirituals
The twist at the end of a story which goes contrary to the reader’s expectations.
Surprise Ending
The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward his subject, and in turn, the response whcih the writer intends for his readers.
Tone
A retelling of a work in one’s own words.
Paraphrase
Writing depicting a particular geographical location. (It accurately represents the manners, speech, beliefs, and history of a region.)
Regionalism
The representation of something as less than it is (a form of irony).
Understatement
The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and ll succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines in poetry.
End Rhyme
The reader’s feeling of uncertainty regarding the action or outcome of a story. (It is an element that keeps the reader’s interest.)
Suspense
A concern with faithfully depicting subject matter or representing real life accurately in literature.
Realism
The repeating of words, phrases, sounds, or ideas for emphasis or particular effect.
Repetition
The correspondence of sounds.
Rhyme
The controlling idea or insight into life whcih the author seeks to impart through characters, plot, and all the elements working together.
Theme
A truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
Paradox
In American literature, the period between 1830 and 1865.
Romantic Period
A fictitious name or pen name used by an author.
Pseudonym
A group of six lines.
Sestet
Made up of three quatrains and a couplet and having a rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
English or Shakespearean Sonnet
A group of four lines.
Quatrain
The arrangement of incidents or events in a story or novel; the sequence of related actions. (It can usually be divided into a beginning, a middle, and an end.)
Plot
The false religious philosophy founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and practiced by Henery David Thoreau and others.
Transendentalism
Rhyme involving only one syllable.
Masculine Rhyme
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, English or Italian.
Sonnet
An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar to are used.
Simile
Something which has meaning in itself but also represents something beyound itself.
Symbol
Rhyme that occurs within the line.
Internal Rhyme
In American literature, the period between 1865 and 1900.
Realistic Period
The method of presenting the reader with the material of the story; the perspective from which the story is told.
Point of View
A play on words, sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar meaning or sound of different words.
Pun
