Barbour Civ Lit Exam 2

Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into the world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross.

Shusaku Endo, Silence, Chapter 8

Lord, I resented your silence. I was not silent. I suffered beside you

Shusaku Endo, Silence, Chapter 10

This country is a swamp. In time you will come to see that for yourself. This country is a more terrible swamp than you can imagine. Whenever you plant a sapling in this swamp the roots begin to rot; the leaves grow yellow and wither. And we planted the sapling of Christianity in this swamp

Shusaku Endo, Silence, Chapter 7

If music be the food of love, play on!

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 1

By innocence I swear, and by my youth,I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,And that no woman has; nor never none Shall bemistress of it, save I alone

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3 sc. 2

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Quoth the raven "never more"

Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me;

Emily Dickinson

As I went down in the valley to pray

Anonymous American Slave Songs

All right, then, I'll go to hell

Mark Twain, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter31, "You can't Pray a Lie"

Historical novel

A work of fiction set in a specific past period that attempts to accurately depict the customs, manners, and social conditions of that era.

Apostasy

The act of abandoning or renouncing one's religious faith

I-novel

Japanese literary genre of confessional literature where the events in the story correspond directly to the author's real-life experiences

Angst

Feeling of anxiety

Setting

The time and place of a story

Marginalized

Lacking power

Existentialism

The idea that lives have meaning through their choices and actions

Absurd

ridiculous

Sociological Faith

a Christian model that believes more in the structures of Christian culture than in God himself

Time Period

A period of time

Colonization

Act of colonizing

Alienation

The experience of isolation and misery resulting from powerlessness

Bad Faith

Not being fully committed. (Father Rodrigues trampling the fumie to save others)

Local Color

Things that are common to the setting of the story

Mirroring

Matching certain behaviors of another person

irony

A contrast between expectation and reality

Anachronism

Something in a time period where it shouldn't/couldn't

Inversion

Syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words in a sentence

Patronage

The support of a patron, as for an institution or cause

Soliloquy

A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.

Middle World

mystical world that can be reached from the real one

Novel

New, different. (or a book)

Satire

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize human vices.

Dramatic Irony

When the reader is aware of something important that the characters aren't. Allows the reader to anticipate consequences.

Picaresque novel

An episodic novel depicting a roguish but appealing hero, typically of a low class.

Comedy of Manners

A comedy that satirizes behavior in a particular social group, especially the upper classes.

Verbal Irony

A figure of speech that intentionally contradicts what the speaker means

Sentimentalism

The excessive expression of feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

Parody

A work that closely imitates the style of another.

Situational irony

An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

Platonic "idealism"

The real world is a shadow of an ideal one

Narrative Poetry

Poetry that tells a story through verse

Enjambent

When a line in poetry goes to the next with no proper punctuation.

Assonance

Repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds

Internal Rhyme

When rhyming words appear in the same line or in the middle of another line. (Instead of the end of the lines).

Poetic Foot

A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables, use of measurement in poetry.

Romanticism

19th century movement emphasizing emotion, imagination, and individualism.

Dramatic Poetry

Poetry that is meant to be spoken or acted out.

Archetype

A very typical example of a certain person or thing

Consonance

Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds.

Onomatopoeia

A word that imitates the sound it represents. (Buzz ->bee)

Meter

Systematic arrangement of language in measured rhythmic patterns

Transcendentalism

19th century poetic idea that knowledge transcends sensory experience.

Lyric Poetry

Short poem expressing personal emotions, usually in the first person.

Personification

Giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds (2-3 times)

Free verse

Form of poetry that mimics the pace and rhythm of natural speech.

Rhyme scheme

Ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of each line.

Realism

19th century poetry movement to represent reality truthfully in poems.

Story arc

The conceptual structure of a narrative from beginning to end.

Quest narrative

Framework where a protagonist embarks on a quest.

Minstrel show

A comical story featuring white actors in blackface, using exaggerated stereotypes to mock african americans.

Vernacular

Common language spoken.

Climatic Structure

Framework where story builds steadily through rising action towards a climax, then resolution.

Ideology

System of beleifs and ideals.

Voice

Distinct style, and personality that an author expresses in their writing.

Episodic Structure

Series of chapters or stories linked together by a central element but held apart by their individual plot, purpose, and subtext.

Father Rodrigues

Silence

Kichijiro

Silence