Literary Defs
Poetry
Romanticism
Realism/Natural
Modernism
100
an elaborate metaphor that compares two very different things. sometimes called an extended metaphor
What is a conceit?
100
ancient genre of narrative poetry-usually tells a story -really long
What is epic
100
to Romantics this was more important than logic or reason
What is imagination (emotion)
100
Not a lot of literature written during this war
What is Civil
100
author of Great Gatsby
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald
200
figure of speech where part represents a whole
What is synedoche
200
poem with 14 lines of iambic pentameter-Shakespearean or Petrarchan
What is sonnet
200
seen in most poems of this era, poets learn something from Nature(Think Thanatopsis
What is love of nature
200
the way people actually talk
What is vernacular
200
author of "A Rose for Emily"
What is William Faulkner
300
figure of speech of extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
combination of like sounding vowel sounds
What is assonance
300
dark romantic author of The Raven
What is E.A. Poe
300
author of Huckleberry Finn
What is Mark Twain
300
type of literature that is dark, gloomy, and has theme of death
What is gothic
400
reference to someone or something from lit, history, Bible, mythology
What is allusion
400
narrative poem-usually sung-saga about past love affair
What is ballad
400
author of "Thanatopsis"
What is William Cullen Bryant
400
part of realism- scientific view
What is naturalism?
400
author of "A Worn Path"
What is Eudora Welty
500
figure os speech in which a person, place or thing is referred to by an object closely related
What is metonymy
500
combination of like sounding consonant sounds
What is consonance
500
character who is young, innocent, has a sense of honor, loves nature, avoids town
What is the Romantic
500
conflict in naturalism where nature wins
What is man vs. nature
500
Who wrote "Of Mice and Men"
What is John Steinbeck
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