Honors American Lit

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allegory

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characters, settings, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities
*hawthorne's dr heidegger's experiment

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alliteration

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repition of the same or similar sounds in words that are close together
*Longfellow's The Tide Rises the tide falls

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allusion

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reference to someone/something that is known from history, literature, culture, etc
*mary rowlandson's narrative of the captivity-references to the bible

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analogy

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comparison made between 2 things to show how they are alike
*Thomas Paine's Crisis no.1-compares king to a theif

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anecdote

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brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something
*Paine's Crisis no.1-tavern keeper and his child

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aphorism

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brief, clearly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life
*Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack

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archetype

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very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated throughout the ages
*the devil and tom walker-man sells soul to devil

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assonance

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repetition of similar vowel sounds

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conceit

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elaborate metaphor or other figure of speech that compares two things that are startingly different

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consonance

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repetition of the same or similar final consonat sounds of accented syllables/important words

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deism

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18th century philosophy based on rationalism, believed god created world and natural law, many founders of US were deists

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foot

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metrical unit of poetry, contains at least one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables

*longfellow's the tide rises the tide falls

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iamb

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metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

*longfellows the tide rises the tide falls

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internal rhyme

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rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry or within consecutive rhymes

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inversion

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reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase

*William Cullen Bryant-Thanoptsis

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meter

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pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
*longfellow-the tide rises the tide falls

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onomatopoeia

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word whose sound imitates/suggests its meaning
*poe's the raven

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parallelism

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the repetition of words/phrases that have similar grammatical structure
*jonathan edwards-sinners int he hands of an angry god

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rationalism

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belief that human beings can arrive at the truth by reason rather than by relying on the authority of the past, religious faith, or intuition
*declaration of independece based on rationalist principles

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rhetorical question

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question that is asked for effect and that doesnt actually require an answer
*patrick henry-virginia convention

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romanticism

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revolt against rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, intution, imagination, and emotion are superior to reason

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satire

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type of writing that ridicules the short comings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring out a change
*poor richards almanack

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scanning

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the analysis of a poem to determine its meter

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sonnet

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14 line poem, usually in iambic pentameter

*longfellow-the cross of snow

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spondee

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metrical food consisting of 2 syllables both of which are stressed
*longfellows-the tide rises the tide falls

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transcentalism

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19th century movement in romantic tradition-every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition