Lit Mid-Term
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- ballad
- a poem intended to be sung
- infer
- to figure out based on the information given
- Because I could not stop for Death
- Emily Dickinson
- Identity
- Julio Polanco
- persuasive
- used to convice the reader of the writer's point of view
- symbol
- something that stands for something else
- flat character
- character who is presented with only one or two main personality traits without much development
- poetry
- one of the genres of literature written in stanzas
- onomatopoeia
- sound words
- Sonnet 30 (A only)
- William Shakespeare
- dialogue
- a conversation b/w characters in a drama or narrative
- TS Eliot
- American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama
- lyric
- a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the author creating an image
- 400 Meter Free Style
- Maxim Kumin
- conflict
- struggle between opposing forces in a story
- character
- a person or animal that moves the action of the story forward
- foreshadowing
- hint or clue that will lead to something that will happen later
- point of view
- perspective from which the story is told
- narrator
- the speaker in a novel or short story
- alliteration
- the repetition of the intitial (first) consonant sound of several words in a row or close together
- Jack London
- survival literature; wilderness adventure
- paraphrase
- to put someone else's ideas or thoughts or stories into your own words
- free verse
- poetry with no set rhyme, rhythm or stanza structure
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- British author who wrote of war and political responsibility in a bold tone; most known for "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
- White Fang
- Jack London
- dynamic character
- character who changes and grows in the story
- narrative
- collection of events that tells a story which may or may not be true
- poetic form
- the structure of a poem
- The Cask of Amontillado
- Edgar Allan Poe
- resolution
- the story's outcome
- rhythm
- the pattern of beats
- narrative
- a poem that tells a story
- image
- a picture created in the reader's mind by the words on the page
- haiku
- three line, seventeen syllable poem from Japan
- Emily Dickinson
- simple words of love, life, nature and death sometimes with deep meanings written during her social and her reclusive years
- static character
- character who does not change in the story
- James Thurber
- humorous writing of everyday life by exaggeration
- figures of speech
- simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, symbol, allusion
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- a British author often compared to Shakespeare
- Robert Frost
- an American poet whose poems were most often set in the New England countryside
- prose
- one of the genres of literature written in paragraphs
- EE Cummings
- known for the complex meaning and unusual punctuation and capitalization of his poetry
- dialect
- language that is specific to a part of the country
- love is a place
- ee cummings
- expository
- the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader.
- refrain
- a set of words/ phrases repeated often in a song or poem
- Walt Whitman
- a thoughtful philosophical author who is best known for his collection, Leaves of Grass
- repetition
- the use of a word/ phrase/ many times
- genre
- three large categories into which all writing can be divided
- Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
- William Shakespeare
- My Life and Hard Times (A only)
- James Thurber
- allusion
- a reference to a well known work of art, literature, or the Bible
- The Raven (A only)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- climax
- the story's turning point
- irony
- to say one thing but mean the opposite
- drama
- one of the genres of literature written in dialogue and stage directions
- 3rd Person Omnicient
- knows everything going on in the story
- symbol
- an object that stands for something else
- The People, Yes
- Carl Sandburg
- biography
- story written about somenone elses life
- The Tell Tale Heart
- Edgar Allan Poe
- speaker
- the character who is the voice of the poem
- The Wreck of the Hesperus
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Carl Sandburg
- a poet who loved to write of history and America; the first to write free verse
- Macavity: The Mystery Cat (A only)
- TS Eliot
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- an American poet who wrote of true historical events and people most often in narrative poetry
- haiku- butterfly
- Moritake
- round character
- a well developed character one having many traits, thoughts and feelings
- minor character
- character who plays a small role in the story
- personification
- giving an inhuman object a human quality
- January (B/C only)
- John Updike
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Mark Twain
- Paul Revere's Ride
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Walt Whitman
- Harlem NIght Song
- Langston Hughes
- plot
- sequence of events
- setting
- time and place of action
- metaphor
- a comparison between two objects not using the word "like" or "as"
- concrete
- a poem that has a shape that adds to the meaning of the poem
- rhyme
- two or more words with like ending sounds
- protagonist
- the main character in a story
- Mark Twain
- realistic fiction; greatest American humorist of all times; changed literature
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- fiction
- a created or made up story
- The Road Not Taken
- Robert Frost
- simile
- a comparison between two objects using the words "like" or "as"
- narrator limited
- doesn't know everything going on in the story
- exposition
- the beginning of the story
- haiku- lightning
- Basho
- antagonist
- character who works against the main charcter of the story
- Edgar Allan Poe
- dark and gloomy writer of horror
- Sonnet 43 How Do I Love Thee?
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- suspense
- feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story
- autobiography
- self written story about ones life
- mood
- a feeling created in the reader as he or she reads
- Freedom of the Moon
- Robert Frost
- The Bells
- Edgar Allan Poe
- stanza
- a set of lines in a poem
- non-fiction
- a story based on facts
- theme
- the central message of the story
- motivation
- the reason why a character says or does a particular thing
- Seven Ages of Man (A only)
- William Shakespeare
- The Jumping Frog of Calavares Country
- Mark Twain
- genre
- particular form of writing; three major categories
- rhyme scheme
- a pattern of like sounding words at the end of each line of poetry labeled in lower case letters
- falling action
- end of the central conflict
- rising action
- events leading up to the climax