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American Lit Esh 2
Exam 2 Study Sheet
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Obfuscation | Cloudy, Muddy, Unclear (Melville's morals, unreliable narrator, Dickinson's multiple meanings) |
| Lyric | Subjective, Feelings, Thoughts, Opinions, Type of poetry, "opposite" to ballad. |
| Arabesque | Geometric, Arab, unity of effect, foreign |
| Grotesque | Twisted, spiritual, out-of-line yet doable |
| Silhouette Narrator | The narrator is taught the story along with the reader (ex. Fall of House of Usher) |
| Bicameral | Both natural and spiritual |
| Doppleganger | Person's double (see Rip van Winkle) |
| Lingua Franca | Common languages, vernacular, colloquialism |
| Barbaric Yawp | Something Whitman said |
| Leitmotif | Recurring idea, line, image or theme in a work |
| Oeuvre | one's body of written work |
| Leitmotif of Whitman's Oeuvre | describes the process of becoming |
| Egalitarian | All types of people are represented and equal |
| Pastoral poetry | Adulation of nature |
| Unity of effect | Part of Poe's Principles of Composition, says that an entire work of composition should be consistent in its mood |
| Urbanism | "Lifestyle of city dwellers" During the Romantic period, culture started to become centered in cities. |
| Empiricism | To rely on one's senses to discover truth. Romantic authors add imagination, intuition, mystery |
| Rationalism | Belief that ideas should spring only from reason and not religion or emotional response. |
| Organicism | View that the entire universe is a united, living organism. |
| Macabre | Dark, morbid, very influenced by culture of death. Poe's works. |
| Neurasthenia | Acute sensory perception (Roderick Usher) |
| Hyperbolic | Exaggeratory, larger-than-life, above normal human perception |
| Universality | Philosophy that a deity is universally present |
| Allegory of the heart | The theme of most of Hawthorne's works |
| Biblical Allusions | references to the Bible or Bible stories in literature |
| Calvinism | Bryant, Emerson, Melville, arguably Hawthorne |
| Refrain | Poetic refrain of words or stanza |
| Jeremiad | Puritanical sermon |
| Mere thinker/man thinking | American Scholar: Emerson said that through embracing nature, a "mere thinker" could become "man thinking"/"the Scholar" |
| Locale | Setting is important in "The Raven" (from Principles of Composition) |
| Escapism | Rip Van Winkle journeying back into nature |
| Mexican-American War | Thoreau was in opposition of the war, and expressed such through Civil Disobedience |
| Poll tax | A tax every American adult was required to pay. Thoreau refused to pay it. |
| Sooty prodigy/sable muse | Phillis Wheatley: naturally intelligent and dark-skinned |
| Apostrophe | Addressed to something or someone not living |
| Overarching theme | Each piece of literature has an "overarching theme," or a lesson that is present throughout the whole story |
| "reject generalizations" | A basic idea of American Romanticism: "generalized truths falsify life" |
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