Vocabulary
The author’s choice of words in terms of connotation
What is Diction?
A word or phrase describing a person or thing’s attributes (“Wine-dark sea”, the Odyssey, Homer)
What is an Epithet?
Poetry with no set rhyme scheme or meter (A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman)
What is Free Verse?
Factors that play a part in whether or not a work is considered good or bad
What is Literary Quality?
A short novel
What is a Novella?
Resolution of a plot in fiction (Macbeth’s death in Macbeth, William Shakespeare)
What is Denouement?
A less offensive word or phrase used in place of another (Readjustment of rations, Animal Farm, George Orwell)
What is a Euphemism?
A system of thought that focuses on humans and their values (Hamlet, William Shakespeare)
What is Humanism?
Highly intellectualized poetry (A Valediction: A Forbidden Mourning, John Donne)
What is Metaphysical Poetry?
A novel that conveys the customs of a highly developed society (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen)
What is a Novel of Manners?
A character archetype who is very similar to the main character (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson)
What is a Doppelganger?
A cut to a past event, sometimes in the form of a memory, used to give info on previous events (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
What is a Flashback?
When the audience knows something that one or more characters does not (Juliet is only asleep but Romeo thinks she is dead, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare)
What is Dramatic Irony?
Substitution of a name with that of something it is for (“The pen is mightier than the sword”, Edward Bulwer Lytton)
What is Metonymy?
A statement that seems contradictory in nature ("Honest Politician")
What is an Oxymoron?
Poetry line ending in a period
What is End-Stopped?
Unit of poetic metric measurement containing one stressed and at least one unstressed syllable
What is a Foot?
Contrast between expectations of events and actual events (Stereotypical Irony)
What is Situational Irony?
Satire of classic epic stereotypes through exaggeration or other means (Shrek)
What is a Mock Epic?
A humorous or satirical recreation of another work (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
What is a Parody?
Running poetry between lines without using punctuation
“Story within a story” (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
What is a Frame?
When something said means the opposite of its true meaning (Everyday sarcasm)
What is Verbal Irony?
A fictional work of average length with some realism
The character the author assumes to designate who is speaking (The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien)
What is a Persona?