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English Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| American Adam Charicteristics part1 | 1.He is liberated from falimly history, ties, traditions, and the past 2. He is alienated from the community 3. He is completley independent and self-reliant 4. He is basically innocent. He is a pre-lapsarian Adam. 5. He lives in harmony with nature |
| American Adam Charicteristics part 2 | He's optimistic and believes in the beauty of life He has vast potentialities and is very recourseful He is noble Lives in a pasotral setting (woods, farm, on the river, in the wilderness) |
| Catolouge | A list of items with descriptive details |
| Feliz Coupla | Fourtanate Fall |
| Puritan Plain Style | The preferred style of writing for puritan writers that showed their rejection of popular ornate writings in 17th century England. THe puritans felt the ornate style was self-glorifing in its learned allusion, flights of fantasy and rhetorical devices. |
| Myth | Anonoymous stories having their roots in primitive folklore of races or nations and presenting supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events. |
| Archetype | A symbol, usually an image, which occurs often enough in Lit. to be recognizeable as an element of one's literary experience as a whole. It is a character type that occurs frequently and evokes profound emotion in the reader. |
| Legend | Has more of a historical background and less of the supernatural than a myth |
| Promotion Lit. | Written to persuade others to come to America. |
| Allusion | When the author refers to another body of work that he assumes the reader already knows |
| Personification | Giving lifelike qualities to an inatimate object |
| Paradox | A statement, which while seemingly contradictory or absurd, is actually well founded or true. It is used to attract attention or to prove and Emphisis |
| Diction | An authors word choice |
| Genre | A particular type of Lit. |
| Hyperbole | A great exaggeration |
| Pathos | the quality which stimulates pity or tenderness or sorrow in the reader; it is unmerited grief |
| Inverted Syntax | When the normal word order of a sentence is reversed |
| Rhyme | The similarity of sound existing between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions within 2 or more lines of poetry |
| Common Meter | a 4 line stanza in which the first and third line have 8 sylabbles in Iambic tetramater and the second and fourth lines have 6 syllables in iambic trimeter |
| Meter | The regular arrangement of stresses and un-stresses syllables |
| Couplet | Two lines that rhyme |
| Poetic Envelope | When the first and last part of a work has the same image phrsas or words so it is all tied together |
| Foutteener | Eight line stanzas with two couplets whose lines countain 14 sylabbles |
| Heroic Couplet | Thwo lines that rhyme and express a complete thought |
| Irony | The idea is expressed in words that carry the opposite meaning |
| Motif | A recurring theme, idea, situation, or device |
| Meta-Physical Poetry | Th psychological analysis of emotion of love and religion. It is intellectual, analytical, and is characterized by inverted word order and the imaginitive connecting of ideas |
| Lexesura | A pause in a line of poetry indicate by puncuation |
| Imagery | A collection of images, symbols, similies, and metaphors |
| Conciet | When a metaphor forms the framework of the enitre poem |
| Petrarchan Conceit | Love poems and sonnets in which the subject of the poem is compared to some object |
| Meta-Physical Conceit | Comples, startling, and highly intellectual analogies are made |
| Pun | a play on word based on the similaty of sound between two words with different meanings |
| Typology | A methof of Bible study in which OT people, things, and events are seen to prefigure or foreshadow elements in the NT |
| Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which the charachters, places, and events represent certain abstract qualities or ideas designed to teach a moral truth. |
| Doublers | When the author does a reversal of the same word, one time as a verb and one time as a noun in close proximity |
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