Literary Terms
A reference to something well known from literature, history, or religion
Allusion
"life is like a circus"
Simile
Along with Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson is most often associated with this literary movement
Transcendentalism
The use of statistics and facts to appeal to the audience's reason is known as
Logical Appeal (Logos)
Climax, Complications, and Resolution are all part of this
Plot Structure
A relatively short story that teaches a moral or lesson
Parable
"war is kind"
Verbal Irony
Known as one of the "Fireside Poets," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was associated with this particular literary movement
American Romanticism
These are almost always written in first person because the authors are writing about their own lives.
Autobiographies
An educated guess based on clues in the text and your own knowledge/experience
Inference
A contrast between what we expect to happen and what actually occurs
Irony
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”
Chiasmus
Jack London is most often associated with this movement because he sought to go beyond realism in an attempt to "portray life exactly as it is"
Naturalism
The use of arguments based on widely accepted values or moral standards to persuade their audience
Ethos (Ethical Appeal)
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or the inhabitants of a certain geographical area
Dialect
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Meter
“What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore-- / Meant in croaking ‘Nevermore.’”
Alliteration
Edgar Allen Poe is often associated with this literary movement
Dark Romanticism
A way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression
Plain style
The ____________ meaning of a story goes beyond the story's literal meaning
Symbolic
Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
Assonance
“The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them”
Parallelism
This author is most commonly associated with Regionalism because of his heavy use of dialect and vernacular and his use of regionalism as a humorist and satirist.
Mark Twain
A writer's __________ is largely determined by sentence structure, word choice, and imagery.
Style
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction is an example of _______