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Humanities CLEP Lit

Literature Review for Humanities CLEP

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Five questions when analyzing novels What, who, why, where, and how/
The novel's what? Plot
Stages of a plot Introduction or exposition, complication, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement or conclusion.
The novel's who Characters
Types of characters in a novel Static or dynamic
Static characters do not change in a significant way
dynamic characters the narative requires changes in thes characters.
protagonist struggles tword someone or something
antagonist struggles against someone or something
Stock characters characters required to support the the plot
Foils a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality, throwing these characteristics into sharper focus
Allegorical Standing for qualities or concept rather than personages
a novel's why the theme
Motifs detail or eliment which is repeated throuhgout, and may become symbolic
a novel's where or when setting
a novel's how style
categories of essays speculative, argumentative, narrative, and expository
Explores ideas rather than explaining them speculative
essays that have argumentative and speculative modes narrative and epository essays
essays that explain and clarify ideas expository
elements of an essay voice, style, structur, and though
Techniques of satire irony, parody, reversal or inversion, hyperbole, understatement, sarcasm, wit, and invective
Poetry - verse a row or line of poetry
Stanza a grouping of lines with metrical order, often with repeated ryme
form of rhymes end rhyme, internal rhyme, slant rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme
end rhyme has the rhyming word at the end of the line
internal rhyme has at least one ryming word in the line
slant rhyme often jolts a reader who expects a perfect rhyme
masculine rhyme uses one syllable words or stresses the final syllable of polysyllibic words
feminine rhyme uses a rhyme of two or more syllable words with no stress on the last syllable, giving a feeling of softness
meter the pattern or measure of stressed or accented words within a line of a verse.
iambic rythm rising a falling rythm
iambic pentameter a line of poetry with ten syllables of rising and falling stresses.
Poets known for using iambic pentameter Shakepeare and milton
Iambic foot one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Monometer one foot
dimeter two feet
trimeter three feet
tetrameter four feet
pentameter five feet
hexameter six feet
heptameter seven feet
octameter eight feet
uu / anapest foot
/ u trochee foot
/ uu dactyl foot
meter used in old english poetry accentual meter
Compares two unlike things, feelings, or objects (not using like or if) metaphor
Compairs two unlike thinks using like or if. simile
an object being compaired to a person, or having human attributes personification
repatition of consanants at the begining of a word alliteration
the direct address of someone or somethingthat is not present apostrophe
repatition of vowel sounds assonance
a deliberate anticlimax to make a point or draw attention to falseness bathos
pause marked by (/) caesura
very elaborate comparisons between unlike objects conceits
repetition of consonant sounds without the vowel sound repeated consonance
the word for word choice diction
running on of one line of poetry into another enjambment
an obvious intentional exaggeration hyperbole
inferring a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant irony
a figure of speech used to envoke or stand for a related idea metonymy
a device in which a word captures a sound onomatopoeia
a retorical devise where contrary terms are conjoined oxymoron
a statement that appears contradictory but nevertheless holds true paradox
a play on words, often humorous or sarcastic pun
used when verbal irony is to harsh sarcasm
a part of on object that represents the entire thing synedouce
ordering words in a particular pattern syntax
the voice or attitude of the speaker tone
the pattern or design of a poem form
poem form where lines can be counted and shape determined closed form
poem form that gives freedom of pattern to the poet open form
types of poetry sonnets, couplets, epics, ballads, and lyrics
fixed form poetry that always has 14 lines sonnet
poems with two line stanzas the usually end in rhymes couplets
Poems with vast size and range epics
poems that may have been sung ballads
Poems that deal with a narrative lyric
part of the lyric family that deals with death elegy
part of the lyric family that deals with profound areas of human life ode
a courtly love poem structure from the medieval times villanelle
a poem with six six line stanzas with six end words in a certain order sestina
short abrupt and cynical poem epigram
five line poem using an anapest meter and rhyme scheme limerick
unrymed and iambic pentameter poem blank verse
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