11Ap1 Literary Terms Midterm

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alliteration

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the repition of the same or simlar consonant sounds

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antropomorphic

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attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object

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ballad

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a song or poem that tells as story

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blank verse

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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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cadence

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the natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language as it is ormally spoken

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catalogue

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a list of things, people, or events

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conceit

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an elaborate metaphor that compares two things

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rationalism

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a movement that began in Europe in the 17th century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on the authority of the past, Church, or institution

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realism

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a style of writing, developed in the 19th century, that attempt to depict life accurately without idealiing or romanticizing it

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providence

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the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the Earth

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refrain

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a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem

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regionalism

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literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and the reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live there

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romantic hero

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idealized hero who undertakes a quest and is succesful-romance, beauty, goodness, and innocence prevail

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romanticism

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a revolt against rationalism that affected literature and the other arts beginning in the late 18th century through 19th century

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stream of consiousness

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a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) working of a character's mind

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surrealism

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a movement in art/literature that started in Europe in the last1920's
Wanted to replace conventional realism w/ the full expression of the unconscious

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theme

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the insight into human life that is revealed in a literary work

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trancendentalism

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a 19th century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual con reach intimate truths through spiritual institution, which transendsreasons and senory experience

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beliefs of trancendentalism

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1) God is present in everything: nature and humans
2) everyone can understand God through intuition
3) nature is symbolic of the spirit

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slant rhyme

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(approximate rhyme)
words that have some correspondance in sound but are not an exact rhyme

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vernacular

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the language that is used by the people who live in a particular beauty

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allegory

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a story in which people, things, or actions represent an idea or generalization about life, often have a strong moral/lesson

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antecedent

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the noun that the pronoun replaces or refers to

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antithesis

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an opposition or contract of ideas

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apostrophe

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a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent/imaginary person/personified abstracction, may add familiarity/intensity

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aphorism

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a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a gneral truth or moral principle (anonymous proverb), can be a memorable summation of author's view

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abstract

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kind of lantuage that refears to ideas, conditions, and qualities we cannot directly perceive

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allusion

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the act of referring to a person, place, or thing; believed to be common knowledge, space-saving way to convey much meaning

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analogy

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exteneded comparison based on like features of two unlike things-one familiar, easily understook and the other abstract/complicated

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analyze

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to separate into its parts, method of development

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anecdote

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a brief narrative/retelling a story/event,
uses: opinions/closings/examples/ entertainment

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Appeals

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resources writers draw on to connect w/ people and persuade readers
3 types: rational, emotional, ethical

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Rational Appeals

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asks readers to use their intellect and power of reaasoning, relies on established conventions of logic and evidence

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emotional appeal

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asks readers to respond out of their beliefs,values, or feelings; inspires, affirms, frightens, angers

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ethical appeals

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asks readers to look favorablyh on the writers, stresses the writer's intelligence, competence, morality, and other desirable qualities

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argument

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a mode of writing intending to win readers' agreement with an assertion by engaging their powers of reasoning; often overlaps w/ persuasion

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assumptions

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to take something for granted (assume) or a belief or opinion taken for granted (assuptions)
Whether stated or unstated, assumptions influence a writer's choice of subject, viewpoint, evidence, and even language

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audience

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a writer's readers

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cause/effect

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a method of development in which a writer analyzes reasons for an action, event, or decision, or analyzes its consequences

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chronological

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the arrangement of events as they occured/occur in time, first to last

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claim

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the proposition than an argument demonstates, synonomous w/ thesis

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classification

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a method of devolopment in which a writer sorts out plural things into catagories