Vocabulary Flashcards
Allegory
A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning.
Alliteration
the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables, as in “ lively lads and lasses.”
Antagonist
opponent of protagonist or adversary of hero.
Consonance
the recurrence of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables as in “ my love doth live”
Ballad
A short simple narrative song
Caesuras
a break or a pause between words within a metrical foot.
Assonance
the recurrence of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables as in “ her fears and tears.”
Dialect
the manner of speech characteristic of a certain area or class.
Elegy
originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.
End Rhyme
refers to rhymes at the end of lines.
Fable
a brief tale with a moral point and generally with non human characters.
Free verse
poetry without rhyme or meter.
Genre
standard or category of literature
Hyperbole
exaggeration : implies less than what is said.
Imperfect rhyme
includes partial rhyme or eye rhyme.
Metaphor
the expression of one thing in terms of another.
Meter
the regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.
Occasional verse
poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally public and contemporary.
Onomatopoeia
the use of words that sound like what they mean eg . Boom, hiss, moan, murmur.
Paradox
a seeming contradiction eg. “ death, thou shalt die”
Partial or slant rhyme
shows agreement in terminal consonant sounds but disagreement in the preceding vowel sounds.
Perfect rhyme
agreement of sounds from the last stressed sound onwards with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.
Personification
giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person.
Plot
a connected series of incidents.
Point of view
narrative perspective. The way a story is told.
Protagonist
the chief or main character.
Pun
the creation of a double meaning by the use of homonyms.
Romanticism
European and American reaction to the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism.
Satire
corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule.
Setting
time and place in which a narrative takes place.
Simile
a stated comparison of 2 things usually a linking word or phrase eg. Like, as, if.
Sonnet
a lyre poem of 14 iambic pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to 1 of 2 patterns.
Stanza
a group of lines constituting a section of a poem and usually distinguished in print by spacing.
Stream of consciousness
random sequence of thoughts and sensations within the mind of the central character
Style
the manner of expression in prose or verse, in written or oral discourse.
Suspense
anticipation created in the reader because of authors withholding information about the nature or outcome of a situation while raising the readers curiosity or anxiety
Symbol
an object that stands for something else as well as itself.
Theme
a recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.
Tone
the attitude of a work towards its subject.
Verbal Irony
A contrast exists between the literal and impied levels of meaning of an expression or statement
