Literary Terms
Time Periods
Rhetorical Appeals
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
100
"That girl is murder!"
What is Metaphor?
100
A time when people were viewed as inherently bad/sinful, men were the undisputed heads of the household, and church leaders desired to return to a simpler way of worshiping.
What is Puritanism?
100
What is Pathos?
100
The early bird gets the worm
What is Aphorism?
100
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
What is Slant Rhyme?
200
In The Crucible, the golden candlesticks represent Reverend Parris' love of material objects.
What is Symbolism?
200
Occurred during the Civil War; despite the divide in the nation, writers focused on themes of freedom and unity.
What is Realism?
200
What is Logos?
200
Nick's nephew needed some new notebooks.
What is Alliteration?
200
In the excerpt, the narrator knows only Farquhar's thoughts: "He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children. The water, touched to gold by the early sun, the brooding mists under the banks at some distance down the stream, the fort, the soldiers, the piece of drift--all had distracted him."
What is 3rd person limited?
300
His eyes were as cold as ice as he stared at her.
What is Simile?
300
A time when the individual was was valued above all else, people were viewed as inherently good, and God, man, and nature were all connected.
What is Transcendentalism?
300
"...thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great...the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them..."
What is Pathos?
300
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
What is Antithesis?
300
In The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams have characteristics that contrast one another.
What is Foil?
400
The house protected the family and wrapped them in its warm embrace.
What is Personification?
400
A time when writers did not tell stories in chronological order, and used complex sentence structures unreliable narrators.
What is Modernism?
400
Our company has been around for 150 years, and has served the community well. We are the industry's leader when it comes to engines.
What is Ethos?
400
A fire station burns down
What is Irony?
400
"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."
What is Parallelism?
500
"My love is such that rivers cannot quench"
What is Hyperbole?
500
A time when people started seeing beyond their designated station in life and desired to live life honestly. The 5 I's dictated the views of the time.
What is Romanticism?
500
Lebron James shoots over 90%, which makes him a top player"
What is Logos?
500
Mass hysteria, injustice, and truth in The Crucible.
What is Theme?
500
A noiseless patient spider,
mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
What is Free Verse?