Term Definitions
The most important and widespread figure of speech, in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two. In the case of this term, this resemblance is assumed as an imaginary identity rather than directly stated as a comparison. Modern analysis distinguishes the primary literal term (called the 'tenor') from the secondary figurative term (the 'vehicle') applied to it.
What is a metaphor?
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
Claim, Evidence, Analysis
What are the components of an analytical paragraph?
This musical, featuring songs like "Wait for Me" is adapted from a concept album by Anais Mitchell, and is based on a familiar, tragic Greek myth.
What is Hadestown?
A manner of presenting the thoughts or utterances of a fictional character as if from that character's point of view by combining grammatical and other features of the character's 'direct speech' with features of the narrator's 'indirect' report. This form of statement allows a third-person narrative to exploit a first-person point of view, often with a subtle effect of irony.
What is Free Indirect Discourse?
“My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”
What is Genesis? (The Bible)
This is the citation style commonly used in the field of English, involving parenthetical in-text citations and a separate page at the end for references, titled 'Works Cited.'
This is the longest-running musical in Broadway history, adapted from a 1910 French novel and featuring songs like "Music of the Night".
What is Phantom of the Opera?
A figure of speech or poetry by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. (Hint: this is the only literary term with its own international symbol!)
What is chiasmus?
"But from the severity of that blame which was last night so liberally bestowed, respecting each circumstance, I shall hope to be in future secured, when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read."
What is Pride and Prejudice?
This combines the use of a formal element of the text with a larger idea in the narrative to make a concise and original argument.
What is an analytical claim?
This musical, based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel of the same name and featuring songs like "I Dreamed a Dream" and "One Day More," is known as a "sung-through" musical, meaning that all of the dialogue is sung rather than spoken.
What is Les Miserables?
The usual form of the folk ballad and its literary imitations, consisting of a quatrain in which the first and third lines have four stresses while the second and fourth have three stresses. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme.
What is ballad metre?
"Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur."
What is "Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798?" (or "Tintern Abbey?")
Effective 'this' should: explain how the evidence supports the claim, refer directly to the evidence, draw reasonable inferences or conclusions from the evidence, repeat key terms from the claim, develop the claim further.
What is analysis?
This musical, adapted from a book written by a 1920's female journalist and featuring songs like "All That Jazz" and "We Both Reached for the Gun", is infamous for its "stunt casting."
What is Chicago?
A rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object. In classical rhetoric, the term could also denote a speaker's turning to address a particular member or section of the audience. They are found frequently among the speeches of Shakespeare's characters, as when Elizabeth in Richard III addresses the Tower of London."
What is an Apostrophe?
"He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."
What is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?"
This novel form - also referred to as a "coming-of-age" novel - follows its protagonist on a quest to adulthood or maturity, often through some kind of struggles with identity and selfhood.
What is a bildungsroman?
This is Sara's least favourite musical out of all the musicals she's shown you so far.
What is Wicked?