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Lit. Terms Sec. 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One of three major types of literature. Often divided into lines and stanzas and employing regular rhythmical patterns or meters, making use of imagery, figurative language and special devices like rhyme | Poetry |
| The ordinary form of written language. Most writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered _____. It is one of the major genres of literature and occurs in two forms: fiction and non-fiction. | Prose |
| The presentation in art of details of actual life. | Realism |
| A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song. Most ________ end stanzas. Many increase suspense or emphasize character and theme. | Refrain |
| The tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas. | Regionalism |
| The repetition of sounds at the end of words. End _____ occurs when the rhyming words come at the ends of the lines. Internal _____ occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line. | Rhyme |
| A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Indicated by using different lower case letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme. | Rhyme Scheme |
| The pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language. Poems have a very specific pattern, or meter, whereas prose and free verse use the natural rhythm of everyday speech. | Rhythm |
| A literary and artistic movement of the 19th century that arose in reaction against 18th century Neoclassicism and placed importance on imagination, emotion, nature, individuality and exotica. Particularly evident in the works of the Transcendentalists. | Romanticism |
| Describes any literature that blends both ironic humor with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing folly, vice, and stupidity in individuals and institutions. The purpose is ultimately to achieve social reform. | Satire |
| A bitter, cutting speech intended to wound. A type of verbal irony. | Sarcasm |
| The process of analyzing a poem's metrical pattern. When a poem is scanned, its stressed and unstressed syllables are marked to show what poetic feet are used and how many are in each line. | Scansion |
| Writing that tells about imaginary events that involve science or technology. | Science Fiction |
| Writing or speech that appeals to the senses. | Sensory Language |
| A brief work of fiction or literature resembling a novel but generally with a simpler plot and setting. _____________ tend to reveal character at a crucial moment rather than developing it through many incidents. | Short Story |
| A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on the stage. | Soliloquy |
| A 14-line lyrics poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. | Sonnet |
| The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem. Often not identified by name. May be a person, animal, thing, or abstraction. | Speaker |
| A type of African American folk song dating from the period of slavery and Reconstruction. Deals with both religious freedom and on an allegorical level, with political and economic freedom. | Spiritual |
| Notes included in drama to describe how the work is to be performed or staged. Used to describe sets, lighting, sound effects, and the appearance, personalities, and movements of characters. Usually included in parenthesis. | Stage Directions |
| A formal division of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. Often separated by spaces and sometimes named according to the number of lines found in them. | Stanza |
| Stanza with 2 lines. | Couplet |
| Stanza with 3 lines. | Tercet |
| Stanza with 4 lines. | Quatrain |
| A narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind. Instead of being arranged in chronological order, the events are presented from the character's point of view. | Stream of Consciousness |
| Includes word choice, tone, degree of formality, figurative language, rhythm, grammatical structure, sentence length, and organization. | Style |
| A conclusion that violates the expectations of the reader but in a way that is both logical and believable. | Surprise Ending |
| A feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of the events in a literary work. | Suspense |
| Anything that stands for or represents something else. Usually the object that serves as a ______ has its own meaning, but also represents an abstract idea. | Symbol |
| A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. | Theme |
| The writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject. | Tone |
| A work of literature, especially in a play, that results in catastrophe for the main character. | Tragedy |
| An American literary and philosophical movement of the 19th century that believed intuition and individual conscience "transcend" experience and are thus better guides to truth than are sense and logical reason. | Transcendentalism |
| A message about life that can be understood by most cultures. | Universal Theme |
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