Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
allusion
|
a reference to a popular, well-known piece of art, literature, event, person, etc.
-ex:? |
|
|
Connotation
|
An association that a word calls to mind beyond the definition
-ex: conotation for the word "snake" is evil or danger |
|
|
Denotation
|
the word's objective, independent of the other associations that the word brings to mind ( literal, dictionary definition)
-ex: snake means any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles" |
|
|
Alliteration
|
Using the same sound at the beginning of multiple syllables/ or accented syllables
ex:fair is foul and foul is fair |
|
|
dramatic irony
|
character thinks something, but the reader knows differently
ex: |
|
|
Situational Irony
|
Something happens that is unexpected by reader or character
-ex:Lady Catherine tries to stop Elizabeth from getting married to Darcy, but she instead, without realizing it, helps to bring them together |
|
|
Verbal irony
|
when someone says something opposite of what they mean (sarcasm)
-ex: When Lady Catherine talks to Elizabeth telling her that her name will be disgraced by everyone if she marries darcy. elizabeth says "that wll be a heavy misfortune, indeed." <verbal irony |
|
|
allegory
|
A story or tale with two meanings (literal level/plot, and symbolic level)
-ex: Animal Farm-literal level was the animals running the farm on their own, symbolic level was the Russian revolution |
|
|
Flashback
|
WHen the author writees about someonething from the past and then goes into the story at a different period of time
-ex: beginning of a seperate peace-Gene is walking around his old school and has flashbacks of his days there |
|
|
Elizabethan Order of the Universe
|
God and Angels are above man
-animals and plants are below man -horses eat eachother -owl took down the falcon >shows disruption of elizabethan order because Macbeth broke the order |
|
|
Melodrama
|
a romantic plot carried to the extremes of emotion and weeping, costernation, dismay, disillusion, and resignation to circumstance.
-have happy endings -ex: pride and prejudice |
|
|
archetype
|
like an actual fictional story derived/copied from a real event/situation
-macbeth (the people were based on real royal people and the real royal kingdom) |
|
|
symbol
|
something in a novel that represents something or a feeling
-Pemberley was a Symbol of Darcy |
|
|
Simile
|
Comparing 2 unlike things using like or as
- |
|
|
personification
|
giving a non-human thing human characteristics
-Animal Farm-the animals talked |
|
|
Russian Revolution
|
Windmeal=5 year plan of Russian Revolution
|
|
|
Utopia
|
perfect society
-Utopia by Tomas More-envisioned perfect society |
|
|
Satire
|
-making fun of through literatuer means
-Pride and prejudice uses satire because Jane Austen makes fun of the upper class which she was a part of -Animal Farm uses satire too |
|
|
tragic hero
|
a protagonist that is otherwise perfect except for a tragic flaw that eventually brings him down in teh end. the concept was created in greek tragedy
-macbeth |
|
|
attributes of shakespeare's tragic hero
|
-noble birth
-responsible for its own fate -tragic flaw -doomed to make serious error in judgement -falls from great heights -realizes he/she made an irreversible mistake -faces/acccept death w/ honor -meets a tragic death |
|
|
novel of manner
|
-pride and prejudice
-a fictional work that typifies teh lifestyle, customs, an dvalues, of a particular social class |
|
|
romanticism
|
-pride and prejudice
-emphasizes love, feeling, and emotion over rational thinking |
|
|
fable
|
a story that teaches a lesson
|
|
|
tragic flaw
|
characteristic that the character can't overcome >leads to their downfall
-for macbeth it was his greed for power |
|
|
paradox
|
a statement that seems to be contradictory but actually presents a truth
-fair is foul and foul is fair |
