honors english 10 final exam review
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- cadaverous
- corpse- like
- revery
- lost in thought
- antinomian
- someone who beleives they can have a personal relationship with god (religious), some one who goes against society.
- denotation
- the dictionary meaning of a word
- physiognomy
- physical features/facial features and expression express the underlying character
- trancendentalism
- sense of a god that is part of everything, not from above ; focuses on the individual; transends the 'norm' of society and limitations; transending the physical boundries of the senses; follow one's intuition
- essay
- point of view trying to get across, solif thesis wanting to prove.
- onomatopoeia
- when the meaning of the word is what the word means
- anastrophy
- reversing word order, emphisizes certain words
- narrative poem
- tells a story
- alliteration
- repetition of the begining sound of a word
- pun
- play on words, words that can be understood in more than one way
- assinence
- repitition of vowels in words
- "because i could not stop for death"
- Emily dickenson, putting new perspective on death, calm acceptance, noting is stressed, casual. in common meter, contrasting views on life and death, different perspective from carrage
- tercet
- three line stanza
- narsisisric
- being so caught up with one's self that one fails to notice others, self centered.
- deus ex machina
- when an outside force comes in and ends the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist; literally meaning "god from a machine"
- common meter
- iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
- helft
- energy exherted to lift weight
- octave
- first 8 lines of a traditional italian sonnet
- iambic tetrameteor
- 4 pairs of U/ in a line
- blank verse
- unrhymed verse of iambic pentameter
- quatrain
- 4 line stanza
- crucible experience
- tests how well one can deal with trying situations, if they can rise to the occasion, showing who they truly are
- tripartite theory
- 3 things must be in tune/balance for good health. emotional (heart), intellectual (head), spiritual (soul)
- local color writting
- given a view of the certain area by dialect, stock characters, quaintness and customs
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Wrote "The Raven", "Masque of the Red Death", "The Black Cat", "Annabel Lee", and "To Helen"
- assent
- to go along with, agree with
- picaresque
- based on episodes
- Oliver Wendel Holmes
- Wrote "The Chambered Nautilus"
- syntax
- structure of a sentance (word order)
- demur
- to refuse, disagree with
- rueful
- regretful
- vengence
- the desire for revenge
- typeology
- when you take meaning from an object in nature
- complication
- in a play where the conflict is
- architectonics
- the structural building blocks of a story
- "cliff kilgenhagen"
- edwin robinson, a guy (different from narrator) who engages in unusual experiences that show the appearence that he is calm and easygoing. irony - hallucinations
- iambic trimeter
- 3 pairs of U/ in a line
- cosmology
- the way you understand the universe and how it functions
- octave
- sets forth the poets subject; first 8 lines of an italian sonnet
- iambic pentrameter
- 5 pairs of U/ in a line
- almanac
- journal- like reference guide
- determinism
- study of cause and effect, saying that things that have happened were caused by pre-determined factors, not too much affect from human will.
- psalm
- poems and song written to god
- eschews
- ignores, wants nothing to do with
- moral
- lesson that can be drawn from an experience
- dichotomy
- a division of two things that are mutually exclusive, two different ways of life in the same place
- sestet
- last 6 lines of a traditional italian sonnet
- poetic justice
- one gets what they deserve in the end
- a crucible
- a fllame-resistant cup, where the pure substance inside rises to the top when heated, and the impure substance sinks
- chiaroscuro
- positioning of something very dark against something very light
- bildungsromen
- a coming of age story
- Thoreau
- Wrote Walden ("Where I Lived and What I lived for" and "Conclusion")
- diction
- word choice
- imagist
- through an image, thoughts/ideas/emotions triggered. use of little words, directly treats subject, no apparent rhyme or rhythm
- adventure tale
- includes a frontier hero (takes place "west" of "civilized society")
- ostensible
- obvious, on the surface
- masque
- a type of play ment to instruct and teach a moral
- 3 parts of a sermon
- 1. biblical refrence 2. relgious doctrine (teaching) 3. relevence to daily life
- Romanticism
- Traits: Supernatural; remote setting; allusions to legends of the past; emphasis on rousing emotions
- occult
- things that are mysterious, abnormal, can make one uncomfortable, but also intruiging
- starkest
- barest, strangest
- discerning
- to look at with a sharp eye, understanfing, knowing about a subject, that many do not
- "ruben bright"
- edwin robinson, narative poem about a guy who is crying because his wife dies, other around him cry. moves on in time. contrast between crying and butcher, cedar box of his wifes things, ment for longtime storage, destroys slaughter house
- realism
- the literary mode which tends to emphasize the limitations which real life imposes on humanity, and which shows how thses limitations affect life.
- trochee
- a line if trochaic usually having to do with occult
- pathetic fallacy
- any false emotionalism in writing resulting in a too impassioned description of nature
- interlude
- something between, peaceful and calm period
- "richard cory"
- edwin robinson, about a wealthy man that everyone wished they could be, who kills himself in the end. the words that rhyme give meaning to the poem.
- propaganda
- 1. arouses emotion 2. calls to action 3. appeals to self intrest and idealism
- goody
- house wife, like mrs.
- sestet
- resolves the problem posed; the last 6 lines of an italian sonnet
- Inversion (anastrophe)
- the displacement of a word, phrase or clause from its normal position in a sentance, either for emphasis or poetic effects
- constinence
- repetition of constanents in a word
- satire
- pokes fun at
- theme
- the point the author is trying to make, not just naming the issues
- synecdoche
- a form of metaphore which mentions a part which represents the whole.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Wrote "Nature", "Each and All" (poem), "Self Reliance" and "Circles"
- Nathanial Hawthorne
- wrote "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and "The Birthmark"
- tone
- to describe the writters attitude to both his/her subject or audience, to describe the overall mood of the work
- thanatopsis
- combination of greek words meaning "a view of death"
- resolution
- in a play where the conflict is resolved
- trochaic
- /U stressed unstressed, usually having to do with occult
- stock characters
- stereotypical people from the area
- fireside poets
- these poets wrote poems that are easily read by the fire; family friendly with themes that were easy to grasp
- naturalism
- gives scientific reason, experiments to test things out, mathematically/scientifficly, trying to find the scientific laws beneath actions and situations. uses a lot of symbolism. usually ppessimistic, with bruital honesty.
- hyperbole
- an extreme exageration
- James Fenimore Cooper
- wrote "The Deer Slayer"
- impressionism
- a manor/mode of writing (not a period of writing), gives the sense of the emotions around the object
- William Cullen Bryant
- wrote "Thanatopsis"
- Caricature
- focuses on a particular trait and exaggerates or distorts it
- connotation
- all the ideas that are associated with that word
- exposition
- in a play, where the charactors, plot, setting are introduced
- Henry Longfellow
- Wrote "A Psalm of Life" and "Divina Commedia"
- banality
- ordinary, but usually not good ordinary