Poetry
What poetic element is represented here?
Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling...
What is alliteration?
This term refers to a writer's intentional word choice.
What is diction?
This refers to a character who grows and changes throughout a text.
What is a dynamic character?
This object is from Doll's House, a symbol representing opportunity or the lack of opportunity. The play ends with a sound of it.
What is a door?
This refers to a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature.
What is irony?
*Remember:
verbal irony = what is said vs what is meant
dramatic irony: what a character understands vs what the audience knows
situational irony: what happens vs what's expected to happen
What poetic device is represented here in the bolded sounds?
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side...
What is assonance?
This term refers to an associated meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
This POV is the narrative style where the author knows everything about the characters and situation. (They use pronouns like he/she/they)
What is third person omniscient?
This symbol is prominent in Beloved, symbolizing the Middle Passage.
What is water?
What is denouement?
What poetic technique is represented here in the bolded parts of the poem?
Some feel rain.
Some feel the beetle startle
in its ghost-part when the bark
Slips.
Some feel musk. Asleep against
each other in the whiskey dark, scarcely there.
This term refers to a dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
This point of view is when the narrator speaks from their own experience and point of view.
What is first person point of view?
What is a motif?
This figure of speech occurs when a writer addresses somebody not physically present or alive. We see this in Roethke's "Elegy" when he addresses Jane.
What is apostrophe?
What do we call the pauses/punctuation in the middle of these lines of poetry?
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down. I could say “Elves” to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
What is a ceasura?
This term refers to how an author expresses their feelings about their topic or characters.
(It can be nostalgic, adoring, bitter...)
What is tone?
This character is one that does not change or grow throughout a text.
What is a static character?
(acceptable, perhaps: what is a flat character?)
This symbol in Doll's House - something Nora practices for and that occurs in Act III - represents the tangled "web" of lies Nora in which Nora found herself.
What is the Tarantella?
This term refers to sentence structure.
What is syntax?
This type of verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
(steady verse with no rhyme)
What is blank verse?
This term refers to figurative language in which an inhuman subject is given human attributes or feelings.
What is personification?
This terms refers to a character who serves as a contrast to a main character in a text.
(think about Christine Lind and Nora)
What is a character foil?
What is an open window?
This terms refers to a figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.
An example: "Lend me a hand."
What is synecdoche?