Poetry
Lit Terms
Lit Terms 2
Modernism
Wild Card
100
This poem contains fourteen lines with (generally) a fixed rhyme scheme and Iambic Pentameter. There are many variations of rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet.
100
This is the German term for a coming-of-age novel.
What is a bildungsroman?
100
The attribution of human characteristics to a non-human object.
What is personification?
100
Virginia Woolf was one of the first to utilize this story-telling narrative style where we, the readers, are privy to all that is going on inside a character’s mind, but Faulkner and Joyce also relied on it.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
100
This is a word that derives from a real or fictional person. Ex. Kafka-esque
What is an eponym?
200
A technique in which the grammatical structure of the sentence continues after the end of the poetic line onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
200
An address to an imaginary, inanimate, dead or absent person or thing delivered by a character in literature. Often begins with "O."
What is an apostrophe?
200
An indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
What is an allusion?
200
This masterpiece is esoteric in nature and to some critics was a big waste of time and paper.
What is T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land?
200
A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. Ex. Perhaps Banquo for Macbeth
What is a foil?
300
This is the area between lines and around the text of the poem.
What is white space?
300
This is the actual subject of a metaphor or comparison.
What is the tenor?
300
A type of repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. Ex 1. I have a dream... Ex. 2"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...." - Dickens Ex. 3 "Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…" - Wordsworth
What is anaphora?
300
This type of protagonist was a creation of a modernist writer and was marked by independence, a sense that life has no rules and meaning has to be created in the world by courageousness and toughness, while emotions are contained.
What is the Hemingway hero?
300
A technique in verse drama in which single alternating lines are exchanged by characters. It's usually a rapid-fire back and forth.
What is stichomythia?
400
This poetic structure introduces lines that finish alternate stanzas for 19 lines. Ex. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
What is a villanelle?
400
This is the image that carries the weight of the metaphor. In other words, this is what the subject of the comparison is being described as.
What is the vehicle?
400
The use of a grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses. Ex 1. "Good we must love, and must hate ill" - Donne Ex 2. "he bites his lip, and starts; / Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground," - Shakespeare Ex 3. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...." - Dickens
What is parallelism?
400
The art and technique of arranging letters to make written language, which involves selecting typefaces, point size, line length and spacing. Ex. r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r by ee cummings
What is typography?
400
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. Ex. You have to have money to make money.
What is a paradox?
500
This unit consists of a stressed and unstressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
500
Writers use this technique to present ideas, characters or places in such manner that they appeal to more than one of the senses. Ex. Harlem or a dream deferred by Langston Hughes
What is synesthesia?
500
An object or person that has universal (or near-universal) significance or symbolic value. Example, the appearance of the sun after rain; the hero; the wise woman; water
What is an archetype?
500
This movement within modernism as a whole seeks to elicit emotion from the audience by focusing on a single image and using as few words as possible.
What is imagism?
500
According to Aristotle, this is the most intense moment of a tragedy—when the tragic hero realizes the truth. In GREEK.
What is anagnorisis?
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