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Literary Terms
Literary Terms, Continued
Characters
Hodgepodge
100
A work that includes an important entrance or exit, and explain its effect.
What is ... Wuthering Heights--Heathcliff's arrival as a child or his mysterious return as an adult, Cathy's death, the motif of gates, doors which reinforces the importance of the spaces between this world and the next. DAHR--Beck's abandonment of Pearl and the children. TOTC--Carton's death Who's Afraid--the arrival of the guests, for whom George and Martha will play a variety of games
100
Language that reflects regional variations in speech.
What is dialect?
100
A narrative poem, originally part of oral folk tradition, usually written in quatrains.
What is a ballad?
100
He says, "I am not what I am."
Who is Iago?
100
The most common metrical unit in English poetry; an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
200
Name a work that features an exotic locale and explain its effect.
What is ... Wuthering Heights, exotic because of its remoteness (remember what a fish out of water Lockwood is) Othello--Cyprus--the "warlike isle," on which the inhabitants are told to give in to their appetites and desires.
200
The distinction between synecdoche and metonymy.
What is in synecdoche, the part stands for the whole, and in meonymmy, something closely associated with the whole stands for it.
200
a strident, discordant combination of sounds--"guttering" and "choking," for example
What is cacophony?
200
Who said the following and what is it an example of? "The only way to treat a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain."
Who is Algernon, and what is epigram.
200
A literary work in which a lie gains widespread belief.
Who is The Crucible--belief in the existence of witches in Salem Death of a Salesman--belief that Bill Oliver will invest in Biff Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf--belief in a non-existent child Importance of Being Earnest--belief in Bunbury, a fictional invalid
300
A work which incorporates the supernatural.
What is ... Wuthering Heights--Cathy's ghost breaking through the window, the ghosts walking at the end
300
The correspondence between nature and human emotions.
What is pathetic fallacy?
300
A mid-line pause, originally a feature of such Old English poetry as Beowulf. Here's an example from a modern poem: "it was the gray city, but the gray roof-slates Sang blue in the sun, and the sea-cliffs, Eastward, swung in that blue wind."
What is a caesura?
300
Identify these characters from WH: the two original Earnshaw children the two original Linton children Frances two of the children in the second generation two narrators
Who are Cathy and Hindley Isabella and Edgar Frances becomes Hindley's wife Cathy Linton, Linton Heathcliff, and Hareton Earnshaw Lockwood and Nelly
300
The associations and implications surrounding a word, suggesting meaning beyond its denotation.
What is its connotation?
400
A work which includes surrogate parents.
What is ... DAHR--surrogate mothers like Mrs. Payson, Mrs. Scarlatti WH--Heathcliff becomes Hareton's surrogate father
400
The distinction between blank verse and free verse.
What is blank verse is just not free; although it doesn't rhyme, it consists of lines of iambic pentameter. Free verse is free of a pattern of rhythm or rhyme.
400
A poem that is an lament for the deceased.
What is an elegy?
400
Complete these doubles from A Tale of Two Cities: 2 aristocrats: Monseigneur and __________________ 2 spies: Roger Cly and _____________________ 2 faked deaths: Foulon and ________________ 2 prisons: the Bastille and __________________
What is the Marquis St. Evremonde (Monseigneur in the Country), John Barsad, Roger Cly, and Tellson's Bank
400
A long, serious meditative work of poetry written in an elevated, formal style. Some famous examples include "___to the West Wind," "____ on a Grecian Urn," and "___ to Solitude."
What is an ode?
500
A work which debates the effects of nature and nurture.
What is ... DAHR--effect of characters' upbringing (Jenny, for instance, abuses her daughter just as Pearl had abused her), but also the existence of different personality types (Jenny, Ezra, Cody all raised by the same parent(s) but turn out very different). Wuthering Heights--again, upbringing has a powerful effect (reinforces Heathcliff's bitterness, changes Hareton for the worse), but in the end, nature appears to win out. Hareton, for example, re-emerges as the kind, compassionate person whom Nelly remembers as a child.
500
The distinction between an English/Shakespearean sonnet and a Petrarchan/Italian one.
What is the English/Shakespearean sonnet is made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet; the Petrarchan/Italian sonnet, on the other hand, is made up of an octave and a sestet (a volta or turn between the two).
500
The type of poem illustrated here:/ I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow./ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear./ I learn by going where I have to go.// We think by feeling. What is there to know?/ I hear my being dance from ear to ear./ I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.// Of those so close beside me, which are you?/ God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,/ And learn by going where I have to go.// Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?/ The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;/ I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.// Great Nature has another thing to do/ To you and me; so take the lively air,/ And, lovely, learn by going where to go.// This shaking keeps me steady. I should know./ What falls away is always. And is near./ I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow./ I learn by going where I have to go.
What is a villanelle?
500
Name two characters who write letters or journals in one or more of the books we've read.
Who are Cody, Beck, and Ezra in DAHR, Isabella, Cathy Earnshaw, and Lockwood in WH, Dr. Manette in TOTC, Cecily and Gwendolyn in Earnest ("one must have something sensational to read on the train")
500
The figure of speech in this Sylvia Plath poem and the answer to the riddle-- I'm a riddle in nine syllables./ An elephant, a ponderous house,/ A melon strolling on two tendrils./ O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!/ This loaf's big with its yeasty rising./ Money's new-minted in this fat purse./ I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf./ I've eaten a bag of green apples,/ Boarded the train there's no getting off.
What is a pregnant woman?
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