Honors English Ii- Final Literary Terms(Updated)

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Consonance

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the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of words or accented syllable:
But if he ask where you hid
Until to-morrow--happy letter!
Gesture, coquette, and shake your head!

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Apostrophe

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figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, idea:
"To the University of Cambridge in New England"

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Assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds:
"The mountain at a g(i)ven d(i)stance"

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Imagery

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the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images, are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement:
"The Worn Path"

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Tone

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writer's attitude towards his or her subject, characters, or audience:
"Winter Dreams "

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Imagism

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literary movement that flourished between 1912 and 1927. Led by Ezra Pounds and Amy Lowell, the Imagist poets rejected 19th cen, poetic forms and language. Wrote short poems that used ordinary language and free verse to create sharp, exact, concentrated pictures

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dialect

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the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group:
"Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaverse County"

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3rd person omniscient

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all knowing narrator:
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "

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3rd person limited

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Narrator can only see inside the head of one character:
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

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3rd person objective

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Doesn’t see the ideas or thoughts of any character
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

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Rhyme

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the repetition of sounds at the ends of word. Rhyming words have identical vowel sounds in their final accented syllables
-end rhyme: end of line
-internal'':within line
-slant "": sounds are similar, but not exact

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synecodoche

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When you have part of something to represent everything
i.e. all hand on deck

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enjambment

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a phrase in poetry that carries from one line to the next(no punc.)
i.e, "The Great Figure"

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personification

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is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
i.e, "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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realism

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In Art: presented details of actual life
In Lit.: begin in the 19th cen. and stressed the actual as opposed to the imagined or the fanciful

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modernism

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20th century style of writing
-emphasized clear imagery, and realistic depictions
-Americans who wanted to break away from European tradition
stories were written in fragments (stories began in the middle, no conclusion, etc...)
- follows the “stream of consciousness” writing style, the story jumps around frequently

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free verse

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poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter:
i.e,"Lucinda Matlock"

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theme

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is a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work:
"A Worn Path"

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Allusion

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reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art:
"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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Hyperbole

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a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, often used for comic effect

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Symbolism

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literary movement during 19th cen. They turned away from everyday, realistic details to express emotions by using a pattern of symbols

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naturalism

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literary movement in 19th cen and 20th cen.Tended to view people as hapless victims of immutable natural laws

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Gothic

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refers to the use of primitive, medieval, wild, or mysterious elements in literature :
"The Fall of the House of Usher"

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Mood

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the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Can be effected by setting, tone, and events

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internal conflict

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struggle between opposing forces within a character:
i.e, "Winter Dreams"

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external conflict

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struggle between opposing forces between a character and an outside force:
"To Build a Fire"

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Onomatopoeia

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is the use of words that imitate sounds:
buzz and hiss

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Alliteration

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is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables:
"Understanding"

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Feminine Rhyme

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Two syllable rhyme

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Masculine Rhyme

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One syllable rhyme

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Transcendentalism

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-Literturery movement that occurred between the years of 1833 to the 1940s
-Stressed the importance of the individual, the power of intuiti on, and gods connectedness to God and nature
-Connectedness to God and nature was based on Emerson's idea of over soul
-The idea that man, nature, and God are all intertwined and the God is present in everything

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epithet

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is a descriptive term (word or phrase) accompanying, or occurring in place of, a name, and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title.

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Stanza

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a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit
couplet: 2
tercat:3
quatrain: 4
Cinquain:5
Sestet: 6
Hepatastich: 7
Octave:8