Literary Terms
There are two "d's" that must be present in your narrative. What are they?
What is sensory details and dialogue?
What are personification?
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December
The r sounds at the end of the two words
What is consonance?
Most of the literature from this time period has been passed down through oral storytelling, as there was no written language.
What is Native American/Early American literature?
This is the first thing that will be listed in a citation for a source on a Works Cited page.
What is author's last name?
The repetitive use of the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence. Example: Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
A comparison of two unlike things without a modifier (like or as)
What is a metaphor?
A series of lines in a poem; similar to a paragraph in prose
What is a stanza?
Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time. The people believed in Predestination.
What is Puritanism?
The use of the same grammatical form when writing a series or list. Example: Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts.
What is parallelism/parallel structure?
The author uses figurative or descriptive language to create a mental picture of the scene in the reader's head.
What is imagery?
When an authors uses an exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally
What is hyperbole?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds within a line of poetry. Example: Men sell the wedding bells.
What is assonance?
Literature from this time period focused on everyday, low-middle class characters and often featured common speech. Real life, real events.
What is Realism?
Correct the two mistakes in the following sentence:
Sugar, flour and eggs is needed for this recipe.
What is:
Sugar, flour, and eggs are needed for this recipe.
A thing in literature that represents or stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
A reference in literature from another literary work, time period, or historical event.
What is allusion?
In poetry, the repetition of certain words, phrases or lines.
What is the refrain?
The time period that revealed the dangerous and sometimes disgusting working conditions of the meat-packing industry.
What is Realism?
The authors' names should be ordered in this way on a works cited page or bibliography.
What is in alphabetical order by last name?
The process by which a character's personality traits are revealed through the way he or she acts, dresses, and/or speaks.
What is indirect characterization?
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
euphemism
Identify two examples of sound devices in this line:
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
alliteration (scuttling silent seas)
assonance (scuttling of, the seas)
consonance (floors, seas)
___________ emphasized imagination over reason; included gothic literature
What is Romanticism?
Which should NOT be hyphenated?
1) off-campus apartment 2)co-star 3)back-pack 4)ex-wife
What is backpack?