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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
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