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Vocabulary
English IV, Handbook Terms 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Frame story | an introductory narrative within one or more of the characters proceed to tell individual stories. |
| Gothic | a term used to describe literary works that contain primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elements. |
| Haiku | a brief, unrhymed, three line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s |
| Humanism | an intellectual movement of the renaissance that restored the study of the classics and focused on examining human life here and now. |
| Hyberbole | a figure of speech that used exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses. |
| Industrial revolution | the period of social and economic change following the replacement of hand tools by machines and power tools, which allowed manufacturers to increase their production and save money. |
| Irony | a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality |
| Kenning | in anglo-saxon poetry, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing, or event indirectly. |
| Magic realism | a literary style that combines incredible events with realistic details and relates them all in a matter |
| Materialism | a belief that nothing exists except matter and that the operations of everything, including thought, will, and feeling, are caused by material agencies. |
| Memoir | a type of autobiography that usually focuses on a single time period or historical event. |
| Modernism | a broad trend in literature and other arts, from approximately 1890 to 1940, that reflected the impact of works like Sigmund Freud's writings on psychology. |
| Neoclassicism | the revival of classical standards and forms during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas. |
| Parable | a short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life. |
| Parallelism | the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate or similar idea. |
| Pastoral | a type of literature that depicts country life in idyllic, idealized terms. |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or noneliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or had life. |
| Postmodernism | a trend in art and philosophy that reflects the late twentieth-century distrust in the idea that there is a legitimate and true system of thought that can be used to understand the world and our place in it. |
| Pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
| Rationalism | a philosophy that advocates the idea that one should use reason rather that emotion when one is attempting to discover the truth. |
| Realism | in literature and art, the attempt to depict people and things as they really are, without idealization. |
| Reformation | the break from catholicism and the authority of the pope that resulted in the establishment of the protestant churches in the sixteenth century. |
| Renaissance | a French word meaning rebirth used to designate the period in European history beginning in Italy in the fourteenth century and ending in the seventeenth century when scientific truths began to challenge long accepted religious belief. |
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