ENG1020 midterm

“you’ve got good blood, I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady”

A good man is hard to find - O’connor

“they rose when she entered. I have no taxes in Jefferson”

A rose for Emily - Faulkner

“she must have been kicked unseen, or brushed by a car; as we teased her with play”

Dog’s death - Updike

“unless my science has deceived me, you’re fit for heaven without facing death”

The Birthmark - Hawthorne

what type of fiction that focuses on gloom or terror?

gothic

A character that contrasts with another for effect is known as

foil

A moment of insight discovery or revelation

epiphany

The author’s attitude towards people, places, and event is known as

tone

In drama, a character’s downfall, from fortune to misery, caused by a fatal fall

tragedy

scenes that are inserted into a serious tragedy to release tension is known as

comic relief

William’s Shakespeare “My mistress eyes” contains 14 lines in a poetic format called

sonnet

A character who changes or matures

dynamic/round

giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object is known as

personification

A speech given by a character alone on stage is known as

soliloquy

the yoking together of opposites is known as

oxymoron

“no way but this, killing myself to die. upon a kiss”

Othello - Shakespeare

“They said she died of heart disease, of joy that kills”

Story of an hour - Chopin

“so much depends upon this, glazed with rainwater besides the white chickens”

The red wheelbarrow - Williams

In Robert frost’s poem, “the road not taken,” what is the repetitive vital line in that

miles to go before I sleep

using one sense to describe another is known as

synesthesia

Four feat of poetry is known as

tetrameter

“with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather”

Those winter Sundays - Hayden

a short passage in a play that is spoken in an undertone is known as an

aside

The character that does not change but stays the same is known as the

static

saying one thing but meaning the opposite is known as

verbal irony

a reference to something wildly known is known as an

allusion

“I prize thy loved more than whole mines of gold”

My dearest loving husband - Bradstreet

“He was a gentleman from sole to crown”

Richard corey - Robinson

“rage, rage against the dying of light”

Do not go gentle into that good night - Thomas

the all knowing narrator is known as

omniscient

“when the world is puddled wonderful”

Injust - cummings

“I always believed blind men wore dark glasses”

Cathedral - carver

“They sang jingles from world war 2 in a language they did not speak”

Coca Cola y coco frio by martin espada

A comparison of two different things without using a connecting term is known as a

metaphor

A comparison of two things using a connecting word

simile