English Authors And Literary Terms

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Famous American Author who wrote Civil Disobedience (which inspired Ghandi and Martin Luther King) after bein imprisoned for failure to pay taxes.

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Henry David Thoreau

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Writer who focused on Great Depression era themes in books such as the Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck

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Born in 1819 and wrote Bartleby by the Scrivener and Moby DIck during the height of the Industrial Revolution

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Herman Melville

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Most famous work was "The Scarlet Letter"; he was the great grandson of a judge from the Salem Witch Trials

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Famous American satirist who wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County and an American Yankee in King Author's Court

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Mark Twain

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Many of her stories, such as My Antonia and the short story A Waggner Matinee, focused on the understanding of the place of women in society

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Willa Cather

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Writer of the most famous teenage angst novel in American literature

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J. D. Salinger

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Name a book we have read this year where the title is a metaphor and explain the metaphor

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The Crucible
The Things They Carried
Of Mice and Men
The Catcher in the Rye

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Known for writing macabre stories with themes of death and despair

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Edgar Alan Poe

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The most prevalent themes in American literature

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individualism

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Style is characterized by a focus on the human condition and the struggles encountered as a result of it

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John Steinbeck

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Style is evidenced by the authors tendency to tell a story with great detail and emphasis only to eventually discount the validity of the story

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Tim O'Brien

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Focused his writing on analyzing relationships; used metaphors of the sea and fishing in many of his stories

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Ernest Hemingway

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Writing is characterized by emphasis on the senses, particularly the senses of sight and sound, to create a feeling a fear

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Writing is characterized by a unique use of language such as curse words and heavy italics

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J.D. Salinger

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The name of the group which favored the use of nature as a theme in poetry and literature

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transcendentalists

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Famous female American poet who was never published during her life time

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Emily Dickinson

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Poet whose themes reflected the Harlem Renaissance movement

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Langston Hughes

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Wrote poems which celebrated the individualism of Americans in poems such as "I Hear America Singing"

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Walt Whitman

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Title of the poem about a "devil bird" by a famous American author and poet

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The Raven

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Well known African American poet who is a professor in Virginia

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Nikki Giovani

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Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne both worked in one to make ends meet

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custom house

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Famous American play write who was married to Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller

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Writer of "Self Reliance" and father of the transcendentalist movement

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Writer of Bartleby the Scrivener

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Herman Melville

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irony

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contrast between the way that something appears and the way it actually is

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jargon

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conversational language unique to a trade or profession

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literary license

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author's right to break the rules of standard grammar & punctuation

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malapropism

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misuse of words characterized by confusion with similar terms

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metaphor

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comparison between two distinct objects not using "like" or "as"

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metonomy

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replacing the name of one thing with another closely associated thing

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moral

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the lesson of the story

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mood

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general feeling evoked in a reader through the author's use of words

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motivation

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character's reason for exhibiting a particular behavior

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narrative

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form of writing that tells a story

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narrator

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person telling the story

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onomatopoeia

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use of words to imitate sounds

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oxymoron

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combined use of terms that seem contradictory

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palindrome

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word that reads the same forwards and backwards

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paradox

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a statement whereby 2 opposing conditions exist simultaneously

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personification

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giving human characteristics to non-human characters or objects

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poetic justice

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happy ending for hero and sad ending for villain

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plot

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sequence of story events

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point of view

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perspective from which the story is told

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protagonist

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hero of the story

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pun

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a play on words

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resolution

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the outcome of the story

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Alliteration

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repetition of consonant sounds

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assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds

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ballad

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origin stories passed by word of mouth

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blank verse

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unryhmed poetry

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caesurua

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pause or natural break in a line of poetry

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couplet

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pair of ryhming lines

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end rhyme

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identical sounds at ends of lines

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epic

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long narrative about supernatural events or people

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epitaph

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inscription used to mark burial place

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free verse

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no fixed pattern or meter

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foot

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basic unit in measurement of a lline of poetry

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hyperbole

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deliberate exaggeration

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lyric poem

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song like poem that expresses feelings of one speaker

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iambic pentameter

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peotric meter in which each line has five feet

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internal rhyme

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use of rhyming words within a line of poetry

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metaphor

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comparing two unlike things

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meter

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rhythmical pattern

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onomatopoeia

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sound words

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oxymoron

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two contradictory words fused together

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paradox

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statement that seems contradictory but actually presents a truth

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personification

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giving human characteristics to on-human objects

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refrain

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repeated group of lines in a poem

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rhyme

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repetition of sound at end of words

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rhyme scheme

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pattern or rhyme

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romanticism

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emphasizes nature

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run on line

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no stop at the end of a line

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simile

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comparison using "like" or "as"

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stanza

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group of lines (poetry unit)

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sonnet

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fourteen line lyric poem with one of several rhyme schemes

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shakespearean sonnet

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fourteen line lyric poem with three quatrains and a couplet