WHO SAID IT
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AT WORK
LITERARY TERMS & POETIC DEVICES
VOCABULARY
HODGE PODGE
100
"Thou hath escaped me!"
Who is Roger Chillingworth?
100
"While the procession passed, the child was uneasy, fluttering up and down, like a bird on the point of taking flight."
What is a simile?
100
The main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly
What is theme?
100
Economist Robert Evans Jr. noted in 1962 that “the slave market performed for the ________________ South some of the functions now performed by the New York Stock Exchange, i.e., it served in the eyes of the public as a sensitive reflector of current and future business prospects” (Rhodes-Pitts).
What is ANTEBELLUM?
100
Refers to a close friend as "Old Sport"
Who is Jay Gatsby?
200
“I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”
Who is John Proctor?
200
“I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name…”
What is a metaphor?
200
The author’s attitude towards the subject
What is tone?
200
(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of something; to disguise or contradict; to betray or fail to justify
What is BELIE?
200
Said, "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?"
Who is Hester Prynne?
300
"We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest."
Who is Hester Prynne?
300
“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”
What is chiasmus?
300
Created out of words with similar but not identical sounds, either vowel segments differ while consonants are identical or vice versa
What is slant rhyme?
300
Modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence
What is DIFFIDENT?
300
University attended by Nick and Tom
What is Yale?
400
“Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up."
Who is Rev. Hale?
400
Aside from the juxtaposition of the two elements, identify the literary device present in these lines: Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice."
What is elliptical construction?
400
Characters, images, and themes that embody universal meanings and basic human experiences, regardless of when or where they live
What are archetypes?
400
Root meaning "hold"
What is TEN-?
400
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible for this purpose.
What is the play written to denounce the members of the HUAC committee- and American society as a whole- responsible for convicting Miller for practicing communism?
500
“Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.”
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
500
While this example does demonstrate imagery to some degree, what other device is at work here: Next to the "ugly edifice" of the dark, gloomy jail, "almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush...which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner...in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him"?
What is juxtaposition?
500
A recurring object, concept, or structure which takes on a figurative meaning and is used to establish a theme or a certain mood in the work
What is a motif?
500
Root meaning "take or seize"
What is CAP-?
500
Two of the fundamental beliefs of Romanticism
What is (1) Superiority of imagination (2) Power of imagination to imbue reality with meaning (3) Importance of individuality and personal freedom (4) Value of spontaneity and self-expression (5) An exultation of untamed nature and resulting desire to express one’s individual nature (6) Admiration of the hero who has broken free from societal restraints?
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