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;
40 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
analogy
|
comparison
|
|
|
allusion
|
a reference to the bible
|
|
|
avarice
|
someones greed
|
|
|
aphorisms
|
wise sayings
|
|
|
antagonist
|
Villon
|
|
|
classicism
|
literature with order and balance
|
|
|
romanticism
|
literature appeals to the emotions
|
|
|
epitaph
|
words on a tombstone
|
|
|
framed tale
|
story within a story
|
|
|
tall tale
|
exaggerated story
|
|
|
imagery
|
words that evoke sensory responses
|
|
|
ignominy
|
disagree
|
|
|
irony
|
opposite or unexpected
|
|
|
diabolical
|
devilish or demonic
|
|
|
abashed
|
embarrassed
|
|
|
adultery
|
inappropriate relations outside of the marriage
|
|
|
hempecked
|
whipped man
|
|
|
melancholy
|
extreme sadness or depression
|
|
|
miser
|
greedy person
|
|
|
paramour
|
lover
|
|
|
personification
|
giving humans qualities to non humans
|
|
|
progenitors
|
ancestors
|
|
|
protagonist
|
main character
|
|
|
pseudonym
|
fake or made up name
|
|
|
stereotype
|
presented so ofter the same
|
|
|
termagant
|
mean hateful women
|
|
|
tone
|
mood of the author
|
|
|
usurer
|
lends money at high rate of interest
|
|
|
William Bradford
|
Puritan came over on the mayflower
|
|
|
oluda
|
stolen by Africans, salve, bought his own freedom
|
|
|
Jonathan Edwards
|
vendored in the great awakening (angry,food)
|
|
|
Benjamin Franklin
|
wrote and published poor Richards almanack
|
|
|
Patrick Henry
|
give me liberty or give me death
|
|
|
Thomas Paine
|
these are times trib men's souls
|
|
|
Washington Irving
|
legend and folklore
|
|
|
James cooper
|
first novelist
|
|
|
Longfellow
|
psalm of life
|
|
|
Emerson
|
transcendentalist essayist
|
|
|
Thoreau
|
transcendentalism Walden
|
|
|
Walt Whitman
|
democratic poet
|
