Vocabulary Flashcards
Archetypes
Typical images, characters, narrative designs, and themes present in all literature
Pastoral poetry
Poetry that suggests country life is superior to urban life
Folk tales
Stories that grow out of the lives, customs, traditions, culture, and imaginations of the people, or folk
Realism
Type of writing that emphasizes objective documentation of everyday life, usually of the working class, and rejects idealization and glamour
Romanticism
A style of writing that appeals to the emotions
Lyric poetry
A short poem with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling
Elegy
A song or poem composed to lament the dead
Ode
Poem written for a particular subject or occasion
Dramatic monologue
Piece of poetry (usually within a play) written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet
Conceit
An elaborate metaphor
Cante jondo
To approximate something in print that reflects the auditory experience in hearing music
Anaphora
Repition or the same word or phrases at the start of a line of poetry
Caesura
Dramatic pause indicated by a dash or spacing
Surrealism
The artistic and literary movement in which realistic people, objects or events are portrayed in an unreal or dreamlike way
Personification
A figure of speech that endows ideas, abstractions, or inanimate objects with human form
