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American Lit.
Theme 3: Gaining Insight Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allusion | a reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history or from music, art, or another work of literature. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| argument | writing in which reason is used to influence ideas or actions |
| anecdote | a brief account of an interesting event; may be used to raise or illustrate a point. |
| parable | a simple story pointing to a moral or religious lesson |
| point of view | the relationship of the narrator, or storyteller, to the story |
| foreshadow | the use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story |
| setting | the time and place of in which the events of a literary work occur |
| protagonist | the central character in a literary work, around whom the main conflict revolves |
| antagonist | a person or a force that opposes the protagonist |
| plot | the sequence of events in a drama or a narrative work of fiction |
| theme | the central message of a work of literature that readers can apply to life; stated and implied |
| suspense | a feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even dread about what is going to happen next |
| mood | the emotional quality or atmosphere of a literary work |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, to make a point, or to evoke humor |
| tall tale | humorous stories that contain wild exaggerations and invention; they are not intended to be believable; their exaggerations are used for comic effect |
| satire | a form of writing that uses humor, not as an end in itself, but as a weapon against someone or something—a person, a group, or a habit |
| blank verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter; each line has five pairs of syllables, with each pair made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| iambic pentameter | a specific poetic meter in which each line is composed of five feet |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined: "hateful love" |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern that end rhymes for in a stanza or a poem. a b a b |
| tone | a reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter, as conveyed through elements such as word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares or equates two seemingly unlike things without using like or as |
| verbal irony | a person says one thing and means another, as when someone says of a mean person, “Nice guy!” |
| imagery | the "word pictures" that writers create to evoke an emotional response; uses sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics |
| rhythm | the pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds typically within or at the ends of words |
| metonymy | the use of one word to stand for a related term: "the sun shines into the child's heart" Here heart is to stand for soul or deep emotions |
| figurative language | language used for descriptive effect in order to convey ideas or emotions |
| alliteration | the repetition of similar sounds, most often consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds |
| The Devil and Tom Walker | Washington Irving |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| To a Waterfowl | William Cullen Bryant |
| Thanatopsis | William Cullen Bryant |
| Old Ironsides | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The First Snow-Fall | James Russell Lowell |
| The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Concord Hymn | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| from Self-Reliance | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| from Nature | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| from Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| from Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| The Minister's Black Veil | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| To Helen | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe |
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