Literary Terms
This literary device is usually characterized by use of the word "like" or "as"
simile
This person was the author of popular works such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and class readings such as The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
The main character of Twain's "True Story"
Aunt Rachel
A rhyming poem of fourteen lines
sonnet
He was a significant leader in the Harlem renaissance 1920’s
Langston Hughes
Martin Espada repeatedly uses this phrase in praise of immigrant workers at the World Trade Center on 9/11
A favorite of Walt Whitman, this term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several consecutive lines
This poet was known for “beat” poetry such as “Footnote to Howl”
This emotion is said to be what killed the main character in “The Story of an Hour”
joy
This literary term refers not to a punctuation mark but rather a speech that addresses someone or something that isn’t there
apostrophe
He is often called the "father of free verse"
Walt Whitman
This is a poem about the lives of Black individuals in the United States after the Civil War, when there was segregation.
We Wear the Mask
Hemingway's "iceberg theory," a style of writing where much of the story is hidden, is also known by this name
theory of omission
This "Puertoricanness" author celebrates expression of every individual and every culture
Aurora Levins Morales
Robert Frost wrote a prelude to his “Gift Outright” to read at this president’s inauguration but was unable to do so.
John F. Kennedy