Vocab.
A work that makes fun of something or someone.
Satire
The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them figurative meaning different from their literal sense.
Symbolism
In a book report on the novel Jubilee, Carla wants to add information about the life of the author Margaret Walker. She should use this as a reference source.
Autobiography or biography
This style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing.
MLA Modern Language Association
"It's with this tour that our story leaps to America"
is NOT assonance, elegy, or monologue,
but this form of literary technique.
Personification
Words that were once in common use but that are now considered old-fashioned or out-of-date.
Archaic or Archaic Language
Literary movement that sought to render common people and ordinary life accurately, emphasizing how instinct and environment effect human behavior, the fate of humans in determined by forces beyond individual control.
Naturalism
This collection of facts, such as sports records, important world news events, and so on, is issued each year.
Almanac
When you do this, you are using your own rendition of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form. It is also one legitimate way (when accompanied by accurate documentation) to borrow from a source. It is a more detailed restatement than a summary, which focuses concisely on a single main idea.
Paraphrasing
A type of light verse, often humorous, consisting of five lines that follow an AABBA rhyme scheme.
There once was a man from Nantucket...
Limerick
A pattern in literature that is found in a variety of works from different cultures throughout the ages.
Archetype
An intellectual and literary movement that emphasized the dignity of the individual and advocated for a simple and mindful life.
Transcendentalism
If the internet was down... to find the best reference source for general background information on the country of Bangladesh, one would use this source.
Encyclopedia
Referring to the works of others within the text of your research paper is called this...
What is a parenthetical citation or in-text citation.
Named after the French word for "attempt".
Essay
How a particular group of people pronounce and use language, can be regional or ethnic.
Dialect
Related ideas phrased in similar ways.
Parallelism
These cite, review, or build upon other sources.
Secondary Sources
To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own is plagiarism. Conscientiously allowing someone to plagiarize off of your own work in called this: ______________.
Collusion
"Oh how do you do, young Willie McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?"
Aside from any form of 'rhyme' or 'meter', name one of the two literary techniques at play here.
Rhetorical Question or Apostrophe
The process of determining meter.
Scansion
From the Greek for "good speech," a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
Euphemism
WATCH OUT! A false or mistaken idea, a false belief. An often plausible argument using false or invalid inferences.
Fallacy
This is a term used (MLA style), to refer to the list of items included in the bibliography of a research paper.
Works Cited
"And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916"
The 'great fallen in 1916' is a(n) __________ to soldiers who died during WWI.
Allusion