Genres
Writing that usually employs dark, melodramatic, and picturesque scenery, popular in the 19th century.
The arrangement of words and phrases that create a sentence.
A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
Excessive pride or self-confidence often found in Greek tragedy.
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Poem, quotation, or sentence from another writer placed usually at the beginning of a document.
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
The use of words or situation to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An extended metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way.
The conflict between the human tendency to seek meaning in life and the human inability of finding any.
A nineteenth century philosophical movement based on the belief that the most important reality is what is sensed or what is intuitive, rather than what is thought such as scientific knowledge.
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa; ex: All hands on deck!
She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that.
The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.