English 1 Midterm - Yakov

Walt Whitman is known as

the father of free-verse

Tone

speakers attitude toward a subject

Parallelism or Parallel Structure

the use of successive verbal or written constitutions in poetry or prose

Ocular Imagery

sight

Auditory Imagery

sound

Tactile Imagery

Touch

Gustatory Imagery

taste

Olfactory Imagery

smell

Kinesthetic Imagery

movememnt

Organic Imagery

emotions

Eliptical Stucture

lacking of words, especially when the meaning can be understood from contextual clues

Anaphora

the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Synecdoche

when a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Genre

type, kind

Catalog

device used in poetry to give a list of things, used to unify ideas

Oxymoron

self contradictory combination of words

Cadence

natural inflection of the voice

Allusion

a reference to something else, usually literature

Symbolism

the use of symbols to signify ideas by giving them meanings

Theme

central image of literary work on which the literature is based

Thematic Statement

message of a story expressed in a sentence or two

Conflict

literary device characterized by a struggle between opposing forces

Irony

contrast between expectations and reality

Verbal irony

speaker says something in sharp contrast to their actual meaning

Situational irony

situation in which the outcome is very different from what was expected

Dramatic irony

when the audience has more information than the characters

Pun

play on words

Refrain

Line at the end of a stanza or where the poem divides into different sections

Onomatopoeia

formation of a word from a sound associated with its name

Repetend

recurring word or phrase, a refrain

Trochaic Meter

poem is made up of pairs of syllables with the first syllable in each pair being stressed

Collective Nouns

are singular. (e.x. the army has ITS uniforms)

Comma Splice

when a comma joins 2 main clauses

Alliteration

repetition of initial consonant or vowel sounds

Consonance

the relation between words in which the final consonants sounds in the stresses syllable agree, but the vowels that preceded them differ

Personification

when a thing, idea, animal is given human attributes

Em dash

indicates an action has taken place

Emily Dickinson wrote during what time period

1800s

Phillis Wheatley wrote during what time period

1700s

Edgar Allan Poe is remembered for his

tales of terror

The Black Cat is what kind of genre?

Gothic Fiction

The Odyssey is narrated in

1st person

Who is the Muse that Homer calls upon at the beginning of the Odyssey

Calliope, the muse of epic poetry