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English V102 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the repetition of identical consonant sounds (most often the sounds of beginning words) in close proximity | Alliteration |
| unacknowledged references and quotations that authors make while assuming that readers will recognize the origional sources. | Allusion |
| , idea, force, or general set of circumstances opposing the protagonists | Antagonist |
| a rhetorical device of opposition in which one idea or word is established, and then the opposite idea or word is expressed | Antithesis |
| the addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present. | Apostrophe |
| The explanation of literature in terms of archetypal patterns | Archetypal |
| heavy stress accent in a line of poetry. The Number of beats in a line dictates the meter of the line such as five beats to a line of iambic pentameter, or three beats to a line of trimester | Beat |
| A character, action, or situation that is a prototype or pattern of human life generally; a situation that occurs over and over again in literature, such as a quest, an initiation, or an attempt to overcome evil | Archetype |
| unrhymed iambic pentameter. Most of the poetry in Shakespeare’s plays is blank verse, | Blank verse |
| the pause or junctures separating words and phrases within lines of poetry | Caesura |
| the detailed study of a poem or passage, designed to explain characters, motivations, similarities and contrasts of sound, situations, ideas, style, organization | Close Reading |
| the meanings that words suggest; the overtones of words beyond their bare dictionary definitions or denotations, as with “leaving” “getting away” and “turning trail” which have the same meaning but different connotations | Connotation |
| two lines that may be unified by rhyme or, biblical poetry by content | Couplet |
| the standard, minimal meaning of a word, without implications and connotations | Denotation |
| an interpretive literary approach based on the theories of Karl Marx (1818-1883) | Economic determinist |
| a short comment or description marking someone’s death. Also, a short, witty, and often satiric poem | Epitaph |
| a detailed analysis of a work of literature, often word by word and line by line; a close reading | Explication |
| the feminist critical approach raises consciousness about the importance and unique nature of women in literature | Feminist critical approach |
| organized patterns of comparison that deepen, broaden, extend, illuminate, and emphasize meaning, and also that conform to particular patters or forms | Figures of speech |
| poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses | Free verse |
| a cricital approach that brings attention to gender rather than to sexual differences, absed on the concept that the masculine. Feminine divide is socially constructed and not innate | Gender Study |
| one of the types of literature, such as fiction and poetry | Genre |
| An interpretive literary approach that stresses the relationship of literature to its historical period | Historical critical approach |
| syllable foot consisting of a light stress followed by a heavy stress | Iamb |
| a heavy-stress rhyme that is built from rhyming iambs such as the west and in the rest | Iambic rhyme |
| Images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, sensations of touch, and perceptions of motion | Image |
| the occurrence of rhyming words within a single line of verse | Internal rhyme |
| broadly, a means of indirection. Verbal irony is a language that states the opposite of what is intended | Irony |
| a short poem or song written in a fixed stanzaic form. If the lyric is set to music for performance, each new stanza is usually sung to the original melody | Lyric |
| (“carrying out a change”)- a figure of speech that describes something as though it actually were something else, thereby enhancing understanding and insight | Metaphor |
| the number of feet within a line of traditional verse, such as iambic pentameter referring to a line containing five iambs | Meter |
| a type of literary criticism that emphasizes the integration of literature and historical background and culture | New Historicism |
| poems tha avoid traditional structural patterns, such as rhyme or meter in favor of other methods of organization | Open-form poetry |
| a line of five metrical feet | Pentameter |
| a Figure of speech in which human characterizes are attributed to nonhuman things or abstractions. | Personification |
| a witty wordplay that reveals that words either different meaning have similar or even identical sounds | Pun |
| an interpretive literary approach based on the subjective proposition that literary works are not fully created until readers make transactions with them by actualizing them in the light of the particular knowledge and experience. | Reader response |
| the repetition of identical or closely related sounds in the syllables of different words, almost always in concluding syllables at the ends of lines, such as Shakespeare’s Day and May | rhyme |
| a pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by the assignment of a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound | rhyme scheme |
| the varying speed, intensity, elevation, pitch, loudness, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry | rhythm |
| act of determining the prevailing rhythm and poetic characteristics of a poem | scan |
| a middle, minimal vowel sound that in prosodic scansion occupies unstressed positions, | schwa |
| a sonnet form developed by Shakespeare, in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet, with seven rhymes in the pattern | Shakespearean Sonnet |
| words that seem to rhyme because parts of them are necessary for the development of the plot | Sight Rhyme |
| A figure of comparison, using “like with nouns and “as” with clauses, as in the tress were bent by the wind like actors bowing after a performance | Simile |
| a group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; stanzaic meets and rhymes are usually repeating and systematic | Stanza |
| the emphasis given to a syllable, either strong or light | Stress |
| a specific word, idea, or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life | symbol |
| An interpretive literary approach that stresses the relationship of literature to its historical period | Topical/historical critical approach |
| An ideal or hypthetical set of facts, principles or circumstances. A unproved assumpton: a conjecture | Theory |
| An assumption or concession made for sake of argment. It implies insufficient evidence to provide more than a tentative explanation | Hypothesis |
| a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the work esp. | Weltanschauung |
| A complete narrative that may be applied to a parallel set of moral, philosophical, political, religious or social situations. | Allegory |
| A specific word, idea, or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life. | Symbolism |
| deals with background of the authors life, the times and setting of a literary work | Historical/biographical approach |
| Focus on the text. with formal analysis of smaller units | New Critical/Formalist |
| A logical shoot of gender studies; it further questions the basis of dualistic thinking. | Queer Theory |
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