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a social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
What is the Beat Movement?
100
Major Western artistic style that gained prominence in the second half of the 1800s and into the 1900s.Against Realism, visual impression of a moment, style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience, often very colorful.
What is Impressionism?
100
The manner in which words are arranged into sentences
What is syntax?
100
A trope in which one verb governs several words, or clauses, each in a different sense. Example: "He stiffened his drink and his spine." "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
What is zeugma?
100
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
What is an epiphany?
200
Black literary and artistic movement centered in New York that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
Post-World War II era; reject traditional literary conventions; embrace experimentation; see contemporary life as bleak and fragmented.
What is postmodernism?
200
the generic name for a figure of speech
What is a trope?
200
Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear.
What is synecdoche?
200
tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall
What is hamartia?
300
the absurdity (named after an author) we have to deal with living in a world of faceless bureaucracies; marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
What is Kafkaesque?
300
A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
What is Realism?
300
a short, descriptive literary sketch
What is a vignette?
300
Images or image patterns with specific connotation or meanings. Ex. Dark alleys and smoky bars are staple icons for crime films
What is iconography?
300
A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
What is a chorus?
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An art movement characterized by the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguish many styles in the arts and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What is modernism?
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19th-century western European artistic and literary movement; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection.
What is Romanticism?
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a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind
What is stream of consciousness?
400
A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
What is an ode?
400
A stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous fiction; e.g., the town drunk
What is a stock character?
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Literary works that explore women's identity and role in society
What is feminist literature?
500
1830's-40's movement protesting the corruption of society and its effects on man's soul, which was most pure when self-reliant and coexisting with nature, noted men during this movement include Ralph Waldo Emerson (essayist), and Henry David Thoreau (poet).
What is Transcendentalism?
500
A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
What is a soliloquy?
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A line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing into the next line.
What is enjambment?
500
A coming of age story
What is bildungsroman?