Literary Devices
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. There is no punctuation at the end of a line (line break), requiring the reader to move to the next line without pausing; therefore, the line breaks without interruption.
What is enjambment?
A top response in this prompt category has two main features: a defendable claim about the prompt itself and its connection to major themes and ideas.
What is a Q3?
a young boy watches his friend get brutally assaulted but does nothing to help
What is The Kite Runner?
"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
What is Pride and Prejudice?
This type of poem is composed of 14 lines of iambic pentameter. Most fall into one of three forms: Shakespearan/Elizabethan, Petrarchan, Spencerian.
What is a sonnet?
This is a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole.
What is synecdoche?
In Alice Carey's poem "Autumn," published in 1874, the speaker contemplates the onset of autumn. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Carey uses literary elements and techniques to convey the speaker's complex response to the changing seasons.
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What are literary elements/techniques and evidence of the speaker's response to the changing seasons?
these two major works focus on the morals and attitudes of Victorian society
What are The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray?
“...You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”
*Extra trivia: Do you know which character says this? (no extra points, just bragging rights)
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Lord Henry Wotton
The poetic form narrates a story in short stanzas. It is a type of poetry and a type of song.
What is a ballad?
The rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next. It is often called "doubling back."
Example: "Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task" (James). (Henry James)
What is anadiplosis?
In William Ellery Channing's poem "The Barren Moors," published in 1843, the speaker addresses moors, open expanses of wild, uncultivated land. Then in a well-written essay, analyze how Channing uses literary elements and techniques to develop a complex portrayal of the speaker's experience of this natural setting.
For this prompt, you should annotate for
In Alice Carey's poem "Autumn," published in 1874, the speaker contemplates the onset of autumn. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Carey uses literary elements and techniques to convey the speaker's complex response to the changing seasons.
For this prompt, you should annotate for these two elements.
What are literary elements/techniques and evidence of the speaker's perspective about moors?
This story is an exemplar for the unreliable narrator. It also has varied interpretations ranging from interpretation through the feminist lens to its interpretation as Gothic Literature for its inclusion or powerlessness and madness.
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
"You mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?"
What is "Girl"?
This type of poem is very serious and is usually a lament for the dead.
What is an elegy?
This is a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins."
What is antithesis?
In Alice Carey's poem "Autumn," published in 1874, the speaker contemplates the onset of autumn. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Carey uses literary elements and techniques to convey the speaker's complex response to the changing seasons.
For this prompt, you should annotate for these two elements.
What are literary elements/techniques and evidence of the speaker's perspective on the changing seasons?
a man is forced to face his past in order to understand his present
What is Oedipus?
“Well,” the man said, “if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.”
What is "Hills Like White Elephants"?
This is an elevated lyric poem that addresses a specific subject, usually in praising the subject.
What is an ode?
This is the term for an emotional release that brings about renewal of self or welcome release from anxiety, tension, etc.
What is catharsis?
This type(s) of prompt centers around characterization, setting, structure, narration, figurative language, or literary argumentation.
What are Q1, Q2, and Q3?
This story focuses on the games we play in the game of love and marriage.
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
"Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right… It is a great truth. It accounts for the extraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place."
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
This type of complicated poem has its origins with French troubadours. The ending words of each line from the first stanza are repeated in a different order as ending words in each of the subsequent five stanzas. The closing tercet contains all six of these ending words, two per line, and they are placed in the middle and at the end of these three lines.
What is a sestina?