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Group 4
Mrs. Bishop's Group 4 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Romanticism | increase in human sensibility, love of nature, mysticism, individualism, and imagination |
| Realism | an attempt to treat material with truth and reason (here and now, specific action, verifiable consequence) |
| Tragedy | treats humans in terms of the part of themselves in rebellion against the implacable universe and frailty of their own flesh and will |
| Naturalism | emphasized the application of scientific or biological determinism in literature |
| Humanism | tends to exalt the human element or stress the importance of human interest as opposed to the supernatural, divine, or animal elements |
| Existentialism | emphasizes existence rather than essence and see the inadequacy or the human reason to explain the enigma of the universe as the basic philosophical question |
| Figurative Language | uses figures of speech that cannot be taken literally |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole |
| Connotation | what word suggests beyond what it expresses |
| Denotation | dictionary meaning |
| Imagery | representation of sense experience through language |
| Concrete Imagery | represents sensory experiences and the tangible |
| Abstract Imagery | represents ideas, concepts, or qualities |