Poetry
This is a fixed form poem of 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
These are the three things you'll refer to in an AP test thesis statement.
What are:
1) Author or poet and passage or poem
2) meaning of the work as a whole
3) The literary techniques
Name 3 forms of third person point of view.
What are omniscient, objective, limited omniscient?
This is a verbal fencing match like those found in Much Ado About Nothing or the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
What is stichomythia?
He is Macbeth's antagonist and eventual killer.
Who is MacDuff?
This is the term we use for the "voice" of a poem.
What is the speaker?
This is the kind of thesis statement you should write.
What is complex, compound?
Name 3 forms of irony.
What are situational, dramatic, verbal?
This is the definition of a motif.
What is: a series of images that create a pattern suggestive of theme?
They are doppelgangers in Wuthering Heights.
Who are Heathcliff and Hareton?
Who are Catherine and Cathy?
In poetry this is when a line of verse continues to the next stanza
What is enjambment?
This is why it's not good enough to merely identify a certain literary term within a given passage .
What is: Because you have to analyze how the term contributes to the effect or meaning of the passage?
What kind of narrative structure starts in the middle of things?
What is in media res?
These are two terms for near-rhyme.
What are slant rhyme and eye-rhyme?
They are the five Bennet sisters.
Who are Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia?
This is an extended direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is a conceit?
This is the difference between prose and poetry.
Prose means ordinary sentences of the kind we find in fiction or drama.
Poetry may be in lines or stanzas, emphasize figurative language, and use certain rhythmical, metrical patterns or rhyme (among other things)
This is the narrative style of Joyce.
What is: stream of consciousness?
This is the literary term for addressing a person or figure who is not actually present.
What is apostrophe?
He woke up one day to find himself "transformed into a monstrous vermin."
Who is Gregor Samsa?
This meter looks like u/u/u/u/u/
What is: iambic pentameter?
This is what you should do before writing an essay on a passage.
What is: annotate it and write a brief outline?
This is a literary philosophy embraced by Samuel Beckett.
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
This is the difference between synechdoche and metonymy.
What is:
Metonymy: a related thing is used to represent a thing or idea. "The White House issued a statement today."
Synechdoche: a part of the thing is used to represent the whole. "Lend me your ears."
These are the two women in Jude's life.
Who are Arabella Donne and Sue Bridehead?