Historical Context
the "grand historical narrative of Western civilization" starts here
Ancient Greece/Athens
The author of Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
figurative exaggeration as a means of amplification
hyperbole
repeated consonant sounds
consonance
a comparison of something familiar to the audience with something unfamiliar to the audience for the purpose of explaining
analogy
a hypothetical time before the development of civilized society
state of nature
The name of the king's castle in Macbeth
Dunsinane
the feeling created by a literary work (in the reader)
mood
words that appear to rhyme in spelling but do not rhyme when pronounced
eye rhyme
an attempt to persuade by characterizing the speaker as credible and trustworthy
appeal to ethos
the process of pricing something for sale which was previously not bought or sold
commodification
The name of Okonkwo's mother's clan
Mbanta
a humorous way of criticizing a person, idea, or institution's faults or weaknesses; a work which uses this type of criticism
satire
the presence of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry
end-stopped
a brief story used to illustrate a point or claim
anecdote
beyond the physical world
metaphysical
One of the ingredients in the witches' cauldron in Macbeth
the possibility of interpreting something in more than one way
ambiguity
to address someone or something that is not present
apostrophe
to signify an associated feeling, mood, or idea in addition to the ordinary meaning
connote / connotation
a voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights, safety, and welfare by acknowledging an authority, such as a government, and abiding by its rules
social contract
The name of the play that Holden Caulfield sees with Sally Hayes in The Catcher in the Rye
The Lunts
a repeated pattern in a work of art
motif
the structure of a sonnet
14 lines; the first 8 present a problem, and the final 6 present a solution
to limit the scope of a claim; to specify which cases or kinds a claim does/doesn't apply to
qualify