British/English Literature, Module's 1 & 2 Study

Flat Characters

Characters with one or two defining traits

Round Characters

Developed characters with complex personalities

Static Characters

Characters that stay the same throughout

Dynamic Characters

Characters who go under change(s) that are meaningful.

Omniscient 3rd POV

Who can get inside minds of all characters

Limited Omniscient 3rd POV

Who can only get into a few minds of characters

Mood

Refers to the atmosphere of a literary work

Tone

Author’s attitude towards his subject

Verbal Irony

A character uses words to say the opposite of what they mean to say.

Apostrophe in poetry

Directly addressing an absent figure or concept

Sonnet

14-line structure with specific meter and rhyme scheme

Allegory

Uses symbolic characters and events to convey deeper meanings

Paradox

Seemingly contradictory statement that reveals something

Iambic Pentameter

Line of poetry with 5 metrical feet, each foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Meter

How a poem is paced, very crucial

Epic

Involves all elements, huge poem

Haiku

Shorter poem, straight to the point, follows pattern of 5-7-5

Foot

Combination of 2 or more syllables which form a unit of rhythm. # of feet determines meter

Stressed syllable

Louder, longer, higher pitch

Unstressed syllable

Softer, quicker, words

Stanzas

Couplet, Tercet, Quatrain, Quintain, Sestet, Septet, Octave

What are the two types of sonnets

Italian - one octave followed by a sestet

English - 3 quatrains, 1 couplet

Terza Rima

Tercets linked together with chain rhyme

What is chain rhyme?

Rhyme carried from stanza to another stanza

Villanelle

19 lines long, 5 tercets, 1 quatrain. Tercets rhyme goes a,b,a

Rhyme Royal

7 lines either 1 quatrain or 1 tercet or 2 tercets and 1 couplet

Rhyme scheme: a,b,a,b,b,c,c

Sestina

39 lines divided into 6 sestets and one tercet

Heroic couplets

Pairs of rhyming iambic pentameter lines

Ballad meter

4 line stanzas with rhyming pattern of a,b,c,b

Iambic tetra meter

Used in ancient and greek and latin poetry

Pastoral Elegy

Poem about death and idyllic rural life

Dramatic monologue

Persona poem in form of speech of an individual character

Irregular Ode

Poem with meter and rhyme, but no set pattern of meter or rhyme

Epic catalogue

Long, detailed list of objects, people, or places

Alxandrine

Line of verse with 6 iambic feet

Sprung rhythm

Meter-like speech, each food is one stressed syllable and many non stressed syllables.

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Literary Ballad

Narrative poem imitating folk ballad, but more complex

Elegiac stanza

Quatrain in Iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming

Popular ballad

Anonymous narrative poem focusing on climax of a dramatic event, multiple repetition, conventional figures of speech, and sometimes a refrain

Paradise Lost poem?

John Milton