Rhetoric
Rhetoric that appeals to emotion.
What is pathos?
The Scarlet Letter is an example.
What is "romance"?
Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Keats are all part of this movement.
What is Romanticism?
A gross exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The arrangement of words and phrases that create a sentence.
What is syntax?
A self contradictory statement that holds a greater truth.
What is paradox?
A novel that depicts the actual or spiritual coming of age of the protagonist.
What is a bildungsroman?
It is also known as blank verse.
What is iambic pentameter?
An example: "How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking...."
What is "stream of consciousness"?
The three kinds of irony.
What are verbal, situational and dramatic?
An example: One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
What is antithesis?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an example.
What is the absurd?
A first person poem that reveals more about the speaker than the thing or person that they are speaking about.
What is dramatic monologue?
A quotation or sentence from another writer placed usually at the beginning of a document
What is an epigraph?
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
What is utopia?
A elusive depiction of something that describes what it is not.
What is apophasis?
Albert Camus' novel The Stranger is an example.
What is existentialism?
A stanza of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
An example:
Let the boy try along this bayonet blade
How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;
Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash;
And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.
What is consonance or alliteration?
A secondary character who helps the protagonist grow, contrasts the protagonist, or both.
What is a foil?
An example is: A dog is an animal. A dog has four legs. Therefore, animals have four legs.
What is a syllogism?
A novel told in letters, like Frankenstein.
What is epistolary?
A lyric poem written in the form of an address, characterized by elevated style and a varied or irregular meter.
What is an ode?
An example:
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o‘er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils..."
What is assonance?
Excessive pride or self-confidence, the major flaw of all Greek heroes.
What is hubris?