Literary Movements
A late 20th-century movement in philosophy and literary theory that generally questions the basic assumptions of Western philosophy in the modern period.
What is Postmodernism
non metrical language; the opposite of verse
What is prose
This greek allusion alludes One spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have
What is an Achilles' Heel
A meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls
What is dactylic meter
an interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes, a profanity
What is an Expletive
Fiction in which Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and in violence
What is Gothicism
A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader
What is Dramatic Monologue
A symbol of immortality of rebirth, a long bird which lived in the arabian desert and then consumed itself in fire, rising renewed from the ashed to start another long life
What is a phoenix
A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming ABBAABBA and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes
What is an Italian Sonnet
A logical fallacy coming from an inference that does not follow logically from the premises
What is Non sequitur
Literary movement in which magical elements appear in otherwise realistic circumstances. Most often associated with the Latin American literary boom of the 20th century
What is Magical Realism
Twofold, characterized by two parts
What is binary
This historical allusion refers to one who has a militant devotion to and glorification of one’s country, fanatical patriotism, prejudiced belief in the superiority of one’s own gender, group, or kind
What is a chauvinist
an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc
What is terza rime
the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession.
What is Jargon
It refers to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression
What is the Lost Generation
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience
What is metonymy
This biblical allusion alludes to a traitor or treacherous kiss
What is Judas
A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable.
What is anapest?
In the novel, Catcher in the Rye the carousel represents this.
What is innocence and youth
A literary movement that tends to focus on themes of identity, discrimination, and border culture, with an emphasis on validating Mexican-American culture.
What is Chicano
In traditional English poetry, it is often a melancholy poem that laments its subject’s death but ends in consolation
What is Elegy
Tomb in the old testament
What is a Sepulcher
An advanced form of crown of sonnets, consisting of 15 sonnets
What is a heroic crown?
the use, for rhetorical effect,of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural
What is Polysyndeton