Vocabulary Flashcards
Puritan Plain Style
straight forward
simple
ordinary
oratory
practice of persuasive, instrumental, and practical public speaking
Poem of Praise
homage to being through written word or song
syntax
sentence structure
diction
Gothic
genre that combines fiction. horror, and romanticism
Single Effect
Edgar Allen Poe said that a good short story was achieved by having a single emotional effect on the audience
Parable
short story to illustrate a moral/ spiritual lesson
Exact/ Perfect Rhyme
rhymes perfectly from stressed vowel to the end
Slant/ half Rhyme
similar but not identical sounds
Free Verse
no rhyme or meter
Allegory
story, poem, picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message
Rationalism
says humans can make sense of world with rationalism and not just faith
Transcendentalism
19th century movement based on romanticism saying hat every person can reach an ultimate truth that transcends beyond normal reasoning
Universal Over- Soul
belief that universal spirit lives in everyone and everyone affects each other
Lyrical Metaphor
evoked imagery
Logical Metaphor
evokes thought
make reader think
End rhyme
rhyming at ends of lines
Internal Rhyme
words in line rhyme
Satire
ridicules and tries to bring about a change
Colloquialism
use of internal words and phrases
Litotes
affirmative is expressed by negative
not good-> bad
imagism
20th century poetry that seeks clarity of expression through use of precise images
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
Shakespeare, Milton, Robert Frost
Iamb
one foot in poetry that has unstressed symbol following stressed one
iambic pentameter
line of poetry that contains 5 Iamb feet
Rites of Passage
event that symbolizes mature in a character
Motif
repeated element that has significance to story
Sound Device
diction or language that implies sound
