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22 Cards in this Set
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Meter
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Regulated pattern of speech. Rhythm. This is apparent in Eliot's work "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" where he stresses the lines "in the room the women come and go, talking of Michaelangelo".
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Free Verse
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Un-metered and un-patterened speech. Crosbie's poetry tends to use free verse - the majority of her work isn't rhymed or metered.
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Metaphor
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A direct comparison of two things which bring a reader's attention to their similarities. Plath uses a lot of metaphors in her poetry, for instance in her poem "Tulips" in which she compares flowers by her bedside to her children.
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Metonymy
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The substitution of something with an object that is normally associated with that something. For instance, when Plath talks of her father's big black boots, she is referring more to the oppressiveness that is usually associated with those boots.
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Synecdoche
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Like metonymy, synechdochy substitutes the whole of something with only one of it's physical characteristics. For example when Eliot refers to the "faces that you meet" in the wasteland, he is not literally referring to the faces but the people.
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Simile
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A direct comparison between two things using like or as. For instance, in Plath's poem "Tulips" when she compares her head poking out between the sheets and pillows to an eye.
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Lyric Poem
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A poem which focuses on expression of emotion such as most of Plath and Crosbie's poetry, particularly "Daddy".
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Theme
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The repetition or recurrence of a concept/idea/element explored by a poem or novel. For instance the theme of childhood in Nabakov's Lolita which includes recurring images of fairy tale worlds and their classical character counterparts, such as nymphs and princesses.
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Allusion
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A reference to a person, place or time. Like in much of Eliot's work including "The Wasteland" where he talks of the man with three stave's which is an allusion to The Fisher King.
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Symbol
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Something that stands in place for an idea. An example of this would be in To The Lighthouse where the Lighthouse itself is a symbol of home and guidance.
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Irony
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The discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. For instance in O'Connor's "Good Country People" when Holga say's she is an atheist but then meets a true atheist who is devoid of all morals.
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Narrative
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The passage of time through words. Woolf's "To The Lighthouse" is a prime example of this.
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Narrator
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The narrator is the person whom the story is being told through. For instance, Humbert Humbert in Nabokov's Lolita.
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Frame Narratives
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Where an introductory narrative is composed to preclude the main narrative. Such as in "Shining at the Bottom of the Sea" where the introduction to the short stories explain context to the reader but is still entirely made-up.
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Protagonist
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Someone who drives the story forward, such as the grandmother in O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
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Genre
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The type of form in which a story or poem is constructed in. For example Godot's genre would be classified as a tragicomedy.
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satire
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Criticizing something through humor. Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" does this by poking fun at existential themes.
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Comedy
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Comedies have happy endings and may focus on the humorous misfortunes of workers and lower class citizens.
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Tragedy
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Tragedies have sad endings, for instance Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
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Tragicomedy
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Combines elements of comedy and tragedy. Waiting for Godot.
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Epic
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Usually a story of a hero and his/her accomplishments. None of the novels we've read are really epics although the Lighthouse can be seen as a critique of the epic.
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Enjambment
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the continuation of a sentence into the next line of a poem, usually indicated with a lack of punctuation at the end of the line. Crosbie's "Liar" is filled with enjambment.
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