Vocabulary
American Literature
Plot
Types of Characters
Literary Devices
100
Made up of parts or people that are very different from each other.
What is disparate?
100
Oral literature, deep respect for nature and animals, uses stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information.
What is Native American?
100
Events after the climax that lead to the ending.
What is falling action?
100
Example: Ebenezer Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol by Dickens, was very stingy with his money. He worked his employees very very hard for little pay. After his experiences with the ghosts that visited him, he changed his ways, paying his employees a more than fair wage, providing days off work and actually giving gifts.
What is dynamic character?
100
Words or phrases used to achieve artistic ends & provide understanding and appreciation of the literary work.
What is literary techniques?
200
Wide;covering a large number and wide scope of subjects or areas.
What is broad?
200
Saw poetry as the highest form of expression; valued feelings, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning;championed individual freedom.
What is Romanticism?
200
Introduction of setting, characters, and problem.
What is exposition?
200
rt, a bumbling salesman, never takes the time to organize his files, properly record his sales, or follow up with customers. Finally, his boss gets fed up and fires him. Bert struggles for two months to find a new sales position. During that time, his car is repossessed for nonpayment and he maxes out his credit cards. Bert finally finds a new sales position but, before a week passes, he is called into a conference with his new boss. Bert is informed he must get organized or he’ll be fired. A week later the new boss fires Bert after he fails to follow up with an important customer.
What is static character?
200
An abstract idea is given a form of characters, actions, or events.
What is Allegory?
300
Not supported by any other evidence.
What is uncorroborated?
300
Example: Benjamin Franklin (Autobiography)
What is Revolutionary Age or Rationalism?
300
The final outcome of the story.
What is resolution?
300
Example: A character in a story named Elaine never cuts anybody a break. She tells her friends and coworkers that charity and compassion have no place in society. On the other hand, Elaine can never pass up feeding a stray kitten or puppy, and always tries to find a good home for lost or abandoned pets.
What is round character?
300
A brief and indirect reference a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, political, and literary significance.
What is Allusion?
400
Extremely clean or neat.
What is immaculate?
400
Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, & corrupt politicians.
What is Realism?
400
Often several parts. A part of the story that builds suspense as the problem gets worse.
What is rising action?
400
In a story about a friendly teacher named Sandra Smith, Louis Drud is a janitor in her building. Louis is always tired and grumpy whenever Sandra runs across him and says hello.
What is flat character?
400
Example: What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.
What is a metaphor?
500
Not following one style or set of ideas but choosing from or using a wide variety.
What is eclectic?
500
Considered to be a part of the Modern Literary Movement; some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz;diction from the street talk of the ghettos.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
500
The high point of the suspense or the turning point of the story.
What is climax?
500
Jim Casey in "Grapes of Wrath" is a minister and very religious. His initials are a biblical allusion.
What is a symbolic character?
500
Example: Your missions is not to accept this mission. Do you accept?
What is paradox?
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