Literary Devices
Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay
What are doppelgangers?
Elizabethan poet and playwright who wrote at least 37 plays and over 150 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Doctor released,
Jerk deceased,
Cutie acquitted,
Monarchy submitted,
Marriage announced,
Cutie denounced,
Places are switched,
Blades are twitched,
Seamstress cries,
Jackal dies.
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
Shakespeare the Bard
Sydney the Jackal
George the Grammanator
What are epithets?
“At twenty she was brilliant and adored
…at forty three …
Toying with plots to kill time…
Alone in brilliant circles to the end.”
What is "Pathedy of Manners"?
The author’s or speaker's attitude toward the subject matter.
What is tone?
What is existentialism?
I am creepy and old. Listen to me.
I'm late, but I'll listen.
I killed an albatross. Then everyone died.
What is Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
The statement of the position taken by someone expostulating on a particular topic with the intent of proving that position plausible or correct.
What is a thesis or defensible claim?
“I have walked out in rain---and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.”
What is "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost.
Remember, uses Terza Rima (from Dante's Inferno)
Harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds.
What is cacophony?
A 19th-century (1800 to 1860) literary movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought in response to the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals…”
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
The spinner, the measurer, the cutter
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos
What are The Fates?
19 line poem
5 tercets
1 quatrain
Only two rhymes
What is a Villanelle?
Focuses on introspective meditation of love, death, God
Uses wit, irony, paradox, ornamental conceits
What is metaphysical poetry?
“The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when…I saw the dull yellow eye…open.”
What is Frankenstein?
Uses wit, parody, distortion to expose flaw of a person or institution to bring about change
What is satire?
Petrarchan and Shakespearean.
What are the two most famous types of sonnets?
A long speech that a character gives to the audience to express his/her deepest thoughts and emotions.
What is a soliloquy?
The American poets known for unconventional use of punctuation and popularizing free verse respectively (aka. the Bard of Democracy).
Who are Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman?
I flunked out again.
Crumby prep schools. Bunch of dopes.
Boy, I’m not kidding.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
The use of words to express something different or opposite to their meaning, often for humorous effects.
A contradiction between what is expected and what actually occurs.
What is Irony?
What are the three essential questions for evaluating poetry?
What is the central purpose?
How fully has the purpose been accomplished?
How important is that purpose?