Term Identification
A play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy, either by providing a happy ending to a potentially tragic story or by some more complex blending of serious and light moods.
What is tragicomedy?
The three parts of an analytical paragraph.
what are claim, evidence and analysis?
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
What is "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"?
The position or vantage-point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us.
What is point of view?
Sabrina's favourite colour
What is green?
A manner of presenting the thoughts or utterances of a fictional character as if from that character's point of view by combining grammatical and other features of the character's ‘direct speech’ with features of the narrator's ‘indirect’ report.
What is free indirect discourse?
A short written composition in prose that discusses a subject of proposes an argument without claiming to be complete or thorough exposition.
What is an essay?
I can’t remember the tale,
but hear his voice still, a well
of dark water, a prayer.
And I recall his hands,
two measures of tenderness
he laid against my face,
the flames of discipline
he raised above my head.
What is "The Gift"?
a literary device that implies comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
The author of the play Translations
Who is Brian Friel?
A rather vague critical term covering those uses of language in a literary work that evoke sense-impressions by literal or figurative reference to perceptible or ‘concrete’ objects, scenes, actions, or states, as distinct from the language of abstract argument or exposition.
What is imagery?
This follows all instances of evidence in academic writing.
What is a citation?
The evening wore away with no abatement of this soothing politeness; and her spirits were gradually raised to a modest tranquility. She did not learn either to forget or defend her past; but she learned to hope that it would never transpire farther and it might not cost her Henry's entire regard.
What is Northanger Abbey?
an important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, theaters, and sometimes in poetry. Storytellers use this as a useful plot device for creating situations in which the audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts, and their resolutions before the leading characters or actors.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Jane Austen wrote under this pseudonym.
The repetition of the same sounds—usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables—in any sequence of neighbouring words: ‘Landscape‐lover'
What is alliteration?
The heart of the literary essay.
"There it is." And maybe I saw it. This is how
he taught me--in case I was ever lost at sea,
or in the desert--how to navigate my way back home.
What is "Tips from My Father"?
A figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate things are referred to as if they were human, as in Sir Philip Sidney’s line:" Invention, Nature’s child, fled stepdame Study’s blows."
What is personification?
The map to proving your point
A poem composed of an uneven number (usually five) of tercets rhyming aba, with a final quatrain rhyming abaa. In this French fixed form, the first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately as the third lines of the succeeding tercets, and together as the final couplet of the quatrain.
What is a villanelle?
This is the first step in preparing to write an analytical paragraph.
What is close reading?
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus.
What is "My Last Duchess"?
A literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature.
What is pathetic fallacy?
A body of written works related by subject-matter, by language or place of origin, or by prevailing cultural standards of merit.
What is literature?