Literary Terms quiz 3
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- parallelism
- the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or meaning
- parody
- the humorous imitation of a work of literature, art, or music
- pathos
- the quality in a work of literature that arouses a felling of pity or compassion in the reader
- personification
- a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities
- point of view
- the vantage point form which a narratve is told
- protangonist
- the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem
- pun
- the use of a work or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time, or the use of two different words of phrases that sound alike
- quatrain
- usually a stanza or poem of four lines
- realism
- the attempt in literature and art to represnt life as it really is, without sentimetalizing or idealizing it
- refrain
- a work, phrase, line or group of lines repreated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza
- requiem
- a prayer, poem, or song for the repose of the dead
- rhetoric
- the art of using language for persuasion
- rhyme
- the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem
- rhythm
- the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern
- Romanticism
- a movement that flouished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism
- satire
- a kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general
- scansion
- the analysis of verse in terms of meter
- sestet
- a six-line poem or stanza
- simile
- a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word or comparision, such as "like," "as," or "resembles"
- slave narrative
- an autobiographical account written by a former slave
- soliloquy
- an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone onstage
- sonnet
- a lyricpoem of fourteen lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
- spiritual
- a folk song, usually on a religious matter
- stanza
- a unit of a poem that is longer than a single line
- stream of consciousness
- the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them
- style
- a writer's characteristic way of writing, determined by the choice of words, the arrangement of words in sentences, and the relationship of the sentences to one another
- symbol
- any object, person, place, or action, that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger that itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value
- synedoche
- a figure of speech in which part of a thingis used to stand for or suggest the whole
- theme
- the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to convey in a literary work
- transcendentalism
- a philosophy which holds that basic truth can be reached through intuition rather than through reason
- trochee
- a poetic foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by and unstressed syllable
- understatement
- a restrained statement in which less is said than is meant
- utopian novel
- a type of novel which arose from the revolution preceding WWI, depicting a perfect future society achieved through science
- vernacular
- the everyday spoken language of people in a particular locality