Literary Terms
Literary Terms II
Unit 1
Unit 2
Miscellaneous
100
a figure who appears in literature from different cultures throughout history
What is an archetype?
100
The author is directly stating something about a character
What is direct characterization?
100
How Native Americans developed their literature
What is passing down stories orally?
100
_________________ writers elevated imagination over reason, feeling over fact, and nature above all.
What is Romantic?
100
How to determine rhyme scheme
What is look at the last word in each line of the poem?
200
the appeal to emotions
What is pathos?
200
"Society is a joint stock company." (type of figurative language)
What is metaphor?
200
This group of people wrote about simple everyday objects and occurrences using easy to understand language; Anne Bradstreet
What are Puritans?
200
One of the major social influences that Washington Irving criticized in "The Devil and Tom Walker"
What is striving for wealth?
200
A life lesson
What is theme?
300
Only asked to get the audience to think; not meant to be answered
What is a rhetorical question?
300
A reference
What is an allusion?
300
Jonathan Edwards is trying to get his audience to experience this emotion in his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
What is fear?
300
Thoreau calls for this type of government at the end of "Civil Disobedience"
What is a better government?
300
In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, Death is personified as this
What is a carriage driver?
400
"Give me liberty or give me death! is an example of this rhetorical technique
What is parallelism?
400
a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
400
"Haste makes waste" and "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead"
What are aphorisms?
400
The reason why Ralph Waldo Emerson alludes to Jesus, Socrates, and Galileo in his essay "Self Reliance"
What is to inspire readers through the examples of their struggles? (To be great is to be misunderstood.)
400
Where you would most likely see a cornice
What is on a building?
500
The author is revealing a character's personality through the character's speech, thoughts, actions, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
500
_________ can be determined by looking at the author's word choice
What is tone?
500
The main purpose of Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention
What is to persuade colonists to go to war with Great Britain?
500
Identify a Gothic element in Joyce Carol Oates' story "Where is Here?"
(Multiple answers accepted)
500
Name all five Gothic literature elements
What is bleak or remote setting, macabre or violent events, strong language, physical/psychological torment, and supernatural/otherworldly elements?
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