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Literary Terms
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Lit Terms II
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Potpurri
100
Details that appeal to the five senses
What are sensory details?
100
He was known for featuring antiheroes, or flawed protagonists, within his plays
Who is Arthur Miller?
100
A tale passed down by word of mouth that explains how the universe and life began
What is a creation myth?
100
An incomplete sentence: "I'm grounded for bad grades. Which means I can't go out tonight."
What is a fragment?
100
The American Senator who was instrumental in the Red Scare in 1950's America
Who is Joe McCarthy?
200
A short, personal account of a specific incident
What is an anecdote?
200
He used fear to persuade his congregants to be born again.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
200
A rhetorical device that juxtaposes two opposite ideas within the same sentence
What is antithesis?
200
Unnecessarily saying the same thing twice: "Please prepay before pumping".
What is redundancy?
200
In "A General History of Virginia", Smith used this point of view in order to brag about himself and not sound conceited.
What is third person?
300
The "hero" in a work of literature
What is a protagonist?
300
He devised a detailed plan in pursuit of moral perfection
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible.
What is a sermon?
300
A punctuation mark that shows possession and can be used to omit words to create contractions
What is an apostrophe?
300
In a more secular view, Enlightenment thinkers felt God created the world and then stepped back to let it function on its own, like a...
What is clockmaker?
400
A short, witty statement that provides a general observation about life
What is a proverb?
400
He wrote a moving slave narrative, and ironically, owned slaves himself later in life
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
400
In Latin, this term for a logical fallacy means "It does not follow".
What is non-sequitur?
400
A punctuation mark that is used to join an independent clause to a dependent clause
What is a semicolon?
400
This logical fallacy involves saying the same thing twice, just in slightly different ways
What is circular logic?
500
Patrick Henry uses this device when comparing the King of England with Judas
What is allusion?
500
He wrote The Crisis to boost the morale of bedraggled revolutionary troops.
Who is Paine?
500
an anthropomorphic folk hero who is often deceitful and vain
What is a trickster?
500
A punctuation mark used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation
What is a colon?
500
This group of writers/thinkers believed that people are inherently evil.
Who are the Puritans?