Term Identification
A play (or other literary composition) written chiefly to amuse its audience by appealing to a sense of superiority over the characters depicted.
What is comedy?
The three parts of an analytical paragraph.
what are claim, evidence and analysis?
And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel's song
That makes the heavens be mute.
What is "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"?
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?
The Taylor Swift song related to the "Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"
What is "the Albatross?"
The arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or verse lines in a pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them.
What is parallelism?
An idea about the world, expressed by a literary text, of general importance to people.
What is a literary theme?
"A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved."
What is Pride and Prejudice?
a literary device that implies comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
These are the names of Adam and Eve's first two children.
Who are Cain and Abel?
Denote[s] an extended lyric poem of description and serious meditation, as practised by some of the English Romantic poets.
What is the greater Romantic lyric?
This follows all instances of evidence in academic writing.
What is a citation?
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
What is "Tinturn 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?
This actor played Mr. Darcy in the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
The usual form of the folk ballad and its literary imitations, consisting of a quatrain in which the first and third lines have four stresses while the second and fourth have three stresses.
The heart of the literary essay.
"The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
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?
Jane Austen wrote under this pseudonym.
The use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them.
What is hypotaxis?
This is the first step in preparing to write an analytical paragraph.
What is close reading?
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up - for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground;
but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground -
then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
What is "Genesis"?
A literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Sabrina has a cat back in Winnipeg, her name is a play off of this nursery rhyme.
What is Jack and Jill?