English Terms- Final 2024

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Harlem Renaissance

A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement from the 1920-1930s that kindled a new black cultural identity

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Imagism

Poetic movement focused on hard, clear expression, concrete images, and the language of everyday speech

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Modernism

a literary movement in which writers captured the essence of modern life in both the form and content of their work

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realism

a literary movement in which writers sought to portray life as faithfully and accurately as possible, focusing on ordinary people suffering the harsh realities of everyday life

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Naturalism

a literary movement in which writers showed people succumbing to forces beyond their control

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Regionalism

a literary movement in which writers depicted the unique qualities of a geographical area and its people

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southern gothic

a style of writing practiced by many writers of the american south whose stories set in the region are characterized by grotesque, macabre (disturbing), or fantastic incidents

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grotesque

distorted, exaggerated description (of ten of the human body)

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allegory

a story in which all the literal elements are also symbols

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catalog

list of things, people, places, actions, etc

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dramatic monologue

speaker of the poem is a character who addresses the reader like a character in a play might speak to the audience

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syntax

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentneces in a language

  • ex- subject + verb + object → the clilmbs the tree

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free verse

a poem that does not have a particular rhyme scheme or meter

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hyperbole

exaggeration

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imagery

descriptive writing that appeals to the senses

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situational irony

when something happens in a way that is opposite of what’s expected

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dramatic irony

when the reader knows something that a character does not

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verbal irony

when someone says the opposite of what they mean

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narrative poem

a poem that tells a story

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paradox

a statement that at first appears to be contradictory, but upon closer inspection turns out to make sense

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parallelism

a balance within one more sentences of similar phrases that have the same grammatical structure

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refrain

a phrase, line, or set of lines that is repeated at regular intervals

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metaphor

a comparison of two unlike things

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simile

comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

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slant or near rhyme

the sounds are almost but not exactly alike

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spirituals

folk songs often sung by enslaved African Americans

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stream of consciousness

writing that presents thoughts and ideas the way the human experiences them- in short bursts, without full sentences, and often without clear or logical connections

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third person limited narration

when a story is restricted to the perspective of one particular character with the use of he/she pronouns

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third person omniscient narration

an all-knowing narrator who is not a character in a story

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allusion

an implied or indirect reference to a person, event or thing (like to the bible or story)

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irony

situation where a contrast between reality and expectations

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onomatopoeia

using words that create or imitate a sound

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understatement

literary device used to downplay a situation as less serious, significant or smaller than it is

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