Lit Final 8th 1st Semester

Who wrote Truth

William C. Bryant

Who wrote The Fight With the Windmills (Don Quixote)

Miguel de Cervantes

Who wrote A Debt That Time Has Not Diminished

George W. Bush

Who wrote The Difference between Knowledge and Wisdom

William Cowper

Who wrote The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Who wrote Oliver Cromwell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who wrote The GIft of the Magi and Lost on Dress Parade

O Henry

Who wrote The Rat Trap

Selma Lagerlof

Who wrote The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant

Who wrote A Slice of Humble Pie

LM Montgomery

Who wrote The Gold Bug

Edgar Allen Poe

Who wrote Pearl Harbor Address to Congress

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Who wrote Primer Lesson

Carl Sandburg

Who Wrote A Good Name and Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who wrote A Spark Neglected Burns the House and Where Love is, There is God Also

Leo Tolstoy

Who wrote Character of the Happy Warrior and Composed upon Westminster Bridge

William Wordsworth

the repetition of the initial sound of a word

Alliteration

the persons who carry out the action of the plot

Characters

the point of highest intensity in a story or poem, which usually comes just before the final resolution of the conflict

Climax

a humorous break within a literary work, such as tragedy, designed to relieve dramatic or emotional tension

Comic relief

a struggle between opposing forces

Conflict

one who undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story

Dynamic character

a metaphor which is developed at length and is often the controlling image running throughout a work

extended metaphor

poetry that has no rhyme and whose rhythm is close to the natural rhythm of normal sleep

free verse

the use of words which appeal to our senses

imagery

an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another

metaphor

a poem that tells a story

narrative poem

a truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction

paradox

a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal

personification

the arrangement of events in a story or play; the sequence of related actions

plot

literature that deals with everyday characters placed in usual, routine, or plausible situations; a truthful representation of life

realism

a phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza

refrain

the time and place where the actions of the story occur

setting

an expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like or as are used

simile

a group of lines usually containing the same meter and rhyme scheme

stanza

the central idea which gives a work meaning

theme

the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject

tone