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Poetry
Character Types
Word Play
Literary devices
Name the Period
100
A pair of ryhming lines
What is a couplet?
100
The author tells us directly what the character is like?
What is direct characterization?
100
Sally sells seashells by the seachore.
What is alliteration?
100
someone says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
100

emphasized the individual, particularly the imagination, and its relationship to surroundings

What is Romanticism?

200
unrhymed poetry
What is free verse?
200
A character struggles within himself.
What is internal conflict?
200

repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in words

What is assonance?

200

Commas used without conjunctions to separate a series

What is a asyndeton?

200

concentrated GROWTH in literature in England and Europe, produced some of the most influential lit. of all time

What is a the Renaissance?

300
4 lines of poetry
What is a quatrain?
300
Man vs. man, man vs. nature
What is external conflict?
300

features exaggerated, superhuman heroes; blends reality with myth

What is a tall tale?

300

a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events with an earlier scene

What is flashback?

300

typically set in dark, mysterious locales with mysterious characters and supernatural or frightening plot events

What is Gothicism?

400

an elaborate, often extended metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different

What is a conceit or metaphysical conceit?

400
A character that has only one or two personality traits.
What is a flat character?
400
"gonna" used in everyday language.
What is colloquialism?
400
19th century writing that depicts life as it is
What is realism?
400

discussed issues of class, progress, and the dangers of industrialization; woman writers bloomed

What is Victorian?

500

reference to another work of literature or something outside the poem

What is an allusion?

500
A character that changes in some important way.
What is a dynamic character?
500

“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”

What is antimetabole or chiasmus?

500

Lit. term that describes George's relationship to Lenny

What is foil?

500

evolved into a belief in faith, goodness, and the beauty of nature; emphasized simple living and self-reliance

What is Transcendentalism?