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Unit 2?
Stuff from this Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Irony | the contrast between what is stated and what is meant or between what is expected and what actually happens. |
| dramatic irony | occurs when the reader knows something a character does not |
| situational irony | occurs when a reader is surprised by an unexpected turn of events |
| verbal irony | the speaker contradicts itself in what it is saying |
| forestall | prevent by acting ahead of time |
| repression | restraint |
| elusive | hard to grasp |
| tumultuously | in an agitated way |
| importunities | persistent request or demands |
| situational irony (ex.) | goes to her room, plops down in her chair, and looks out her window. expect scenery to be described as dark and gloomy. |
| verbal irony (ex) | "it was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long" ;expect life to be long. (she dies later) |
| dramatic irony (ex) | "there was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully."; expect something awful was about to happen in the future. she stated again and again that she was free. |
| appositive | a noun or pronoun placed near another noun or pronoun to provide more information about it. |
| nonessential appositive | an appositive that can be omitted from a sentence. |
| essential appositive | has meaning in a sentence. |
| rhyme | occurs in two or more words that have similar or identical vowel and final consonant sounds in their accented syllables |
| salient | standing out from the rest |
| tempest | violent storm |
| stark | stiff or rigid, as a corpse |
| guile | craftiness |
| myriad | countless |
| interjection | a word or phrase that expresses emotion in a sentence |
| apostrophe | speaking to an inanimate object or dead person |
| tempest | a violent storm that represents the animosity black people have |
| "Douglass" structure | Italian Sonnet |
| octave | presents a problem or asks a question |
| sestet | answers the octave |
| true rhyme (ex) | storm/form ;; bark/dark |
| slant rhyme (ex) | know/ago ;; amaze/dispraise |
| end rhyme (ex) | "lies and eyes" ;; "guile and smile" |
| internal rhyme (ex) | "hides" and "eyes" |
| speaker | voice of the poem |
| noun clause | subordinate clauses (word groups with subjects and verbs that cannot stand alone as sentences) |
| repose | the state of being at rest |
| degenerate | morally corrupt |
| Western Gate | may symbolize death or the process of dying |
| dawn in eastern skies | symbolizes new life, a new beginning |
| imperially | majestically |
| epitaph | inscription on a tombstone |
| "Lucinda Matlock" and "Richard Bone" | Edgar Lee Masters |
| "Luke Havergal" and "Richard Cory" | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| reverential | showing or caused by a feeling on deep respect, love, and awe |
| tremulously | fearfully; timidly |
| semi-somnambulant | half-sleepwalking |
| inert | motionless |
| prelude | introductory section or movement of a suite, fugue, or work of music |
| jocularity | joking good humor |
| italian sonnet | 14 line poem that includes an octave and sestet |
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