Literature SCQ Review Flashcards

Vocabulary and terminology flashcards covering literary terms, key authors, works, and quotes from the Literature SCQ collection.

Euphemism

A literary device that uses a milder phrase for a serious or offensive event.

Imagery

Language and description that appeals to our five senses.

My Bones and My Flute

A novel by Edgar Mittelholzer subtitled a ghost story in the old fashioned manner.

Green Days by the River

A Caribbean novel by Michael Anthony telling the story of a Trinidadian boy named Shelly who moves to a new village.

In the Castle of My Skin

The 1953 debut novel by Barbadian author George Lamming.

Flame Heart

A poem by Claude McKay that begins with the line: 'So much have I forgotten in ten years, so much in ten brief years'.

Palace of the Peacock

The first novel by Guyanese author Wilson Harris.

Unburnable

A novel written by Antiguan Caribbean author Marie-Elena John.

Sounding Ground

A poetic collection written by St. Lucian author Vladimir Lucien.

The Feast of the Goat

A novel by Mario Vargas Llosa depicting the Dominican Republic during the final days of Rafael Trujillo's regime.

Lucy

A novel by Jamaica Kincaid about a teenage girl from the West Indies who comes to North America to work.

Marlon James

The first Jamaican recipient of the Man Booker Prize, awarded in 2015 for 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'.

Omeros

An epic poetic work released by St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott.

Brown Girl in the Ring

A novel written by Jamaican-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson.

The Pickwick Papers

The first novel written by Charles Dickens.

Brother I'm Dying

A work by Edwidge Danticat that received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography.

Is Just a Movie

A novel by Earl Lovelace that received the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

Minty Alley

A novel written by Trinidadian author C. L. R. James.

Robert Galbraith

The pseudonym used by author Joanne K. Rowling.

Miguel Street

A collection of short stories set in Trinidad and Tobago written by V. S. Naipaul.

Climax

A literary term beginning with C that refers to the highest or most exciting point in a story.

Foil

A character who contrasts the main character in a play or story.

Paradox

A literary device used in the line 'War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength' from George Orwell's 1984.

Wide Sargasso Sea

An anti-colonial response novel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre written by Dominican author Jean Rhys.

Allegory

A symbolic narrative in which surface details imply a secondary meaning, often taking the form of a story in which characters represent moral qualities.

Hyperbole

A literary device involving extreme exaggeration, as in 'The teacher told the students a million times to be quiet'.

Oxymoron

A literary device using contradictory terms, as in 'A mournful optimist gave the eulogy'.

Pun

A literary device using wordplay, illustrated in the sentence 'The librarian is a great bookkeeper'.

The Time Machine

An 1895 science fiction novella written by H. G. Wells.

A Tale of Two Cities

A novel by Charles Dickens set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.