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POETRY
PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
CHARACTERISTICS OF NONFICTION
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Rhyming words are found within a line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme
100
This period of American literature included the Puritans and the Native Americans.
What is the Colonial Period?
100
The narrator tells the story from the perspective of one character, knowing only that character's thoughts and feelings.
What is third person limited point of view?
100
An autobiography that covers a certain period of time.
What is memoir?
100
The meaning of the prefix "anti".
What is against?
200
This form of poetry has no specific rules of rhyme, meter, or length; also called free verse
What is free form poetry
200
This period of American literature emphasized emotion over reason; other features of this period include creativity and imagination
What is Romanticism?
200
The structure of this type story involves a story within a story.
What is frame narrative?
200
Story of a person's life told by another person.
What is biography
200
This common theme depicts men and women coming to America to seek a new life. Their individual achievement and ambition helped them to survive.
What is American individualism?
300
Words have the same consonant sounds at the beginning or the end, but the vowel sounds are different.
What is consonance?
300
Authors of the period focused on the cruel realities of the time. Their subjects often included slums, factories, employees, etc
What is Realism
300
The narrator relates events from a personal perspective; the narrator is a character in the story
What is first person point of view?
300
Autobiographical record of the writer's actions, feelings, and thoughts; may be quite personal
What is diary?
300
This poetic form contains an expression of the poet's feelings and thoughts and includes very romantic or descriptive feelings
What is lyric poetry?
400
This poetic form tells a story; a ballad would be an example
What is narrative poetry?
400
This literary movement was the first movement of African-American writers, artists, painters, etc
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
An author uses this technique to interrupt a scene to go back and tell about events that occurred earlier.
What is flashback
400
Story of a person's life as told by that person.
What is autobiography?
400
A statement that at first seems self contradictory; less is more.
What is paradox?
500
A word, phrase, or series of lines that is repeated, adding rhythm and emphasis toa song or poem
What is refrain
500
This group of people practiced an oral tradition; their literature focused on the natural world as a sacred place.
What is Native Americans
500
The narrator knows all the characters' thoughts and feelings as well as information about all events.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
Web sites, resumes, research papers, letters, forms; surveys, advertisements, etc
What is technical writing?
500
The author's attitude towards his subject.
What is tone?