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Lit Terms #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ballad folk:Lord Randal, Lit: COLRIDGE The Rime of Ancient Mariner | a simple poem which deals with a dramatic situation usually created for singing. Folk: an early literary form of unknown authorship Literary: a concious imitation by a known author of the folk ballad in subject, spirit, and style-ex |
| assonance "we hailed it in God's name." COLRIDGE, The Rime of Ancient Mariner | resemblance or similarity in sound between vowels followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables; its effect is more subtle than alliteration. ex. |
| antithesis DICKENS A Tale of Two Cities-best,worst;wisdom,foolishness;belief,incredulity;light,darkness | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; a balancing of one term against another for impressiveness and emphasis. ex. |
| avant-garde | new writings which show striking innovations in style, form, and subject matter; avant-garde literature makes a frontal & organized attack upon established literary traditions |
| aubade | a poem about dawn;a morning love song; a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
| apocalyptic | literature concerned with predicting the ultimate destiny of the world, imminent catastrophe, and final judgement on mankind |
| atmosphere Macbeth the prevailing atmosphere of evil & foreboding is established at the beginning by the witches on the heath | the prevailing tone or mood of a literary work, particularly-but not exclusively-when that mood is setablished in part by setting or landscape. ex. |
| apostrophe "Death, be not proud." DONNE | figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though alive & capable of understanding. ex. |
| apollonian | when applied to literature, it stands for reason, order, culture, and moral rectitude |
| archetype Christ-figure=sacrifice/salvation | an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore, and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotions in the reader since it awakends a primoridal image in his unconci |
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