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26 Cards in this Set
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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
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