Literature unit 4: Humility

Nathaniel Hawthorne

wrote Oliver Cromwell

“Harmnot the urchin; for he has taught my son a good lesson, if heaven do but give him grace to profit by it.”

lines to know form Oliver Cromwell

Meter

a poem’s established rhythm

foot

the pattern of a line

u /

iamb

/ u

trochee

u u /

anapest

/ u u

dactyl

/ /

spondee

/

monosyllabic foot

monometer

one foot

dimeter

two feet

trimeter

three feet

tetrameter

four feet

pentameter

five feet

hexameter

six feet

heptameter

seven feet

octameter

eight feet

stanza

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

Guy De Maupassant

the author of ‘The Necklace’

surprise ending

a turn of events at the end of a story; used to make a story more exciting

“She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. and she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that.”

lines to know from ‘The Necklace’

Thomas A Kempis

the author of ‘Of Humble Submission’

paradox

a truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction