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Time Periods
Lit terms
drama terms
Poetry
Terms
100
loyalty to your leader
What is Anglo-Saxons?
100
human qualities given to non-human things
What is personification?
100
conversation between two or more characters
What is dialogue?
100
repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
central idea or insight taken from literature
What is theme?
200
response to the World Wars
What is modern period?
200
reference to something biblical, historical, mythological, etc
What is allusion?
200
long speech made by a character
What is monologue?
200
song or songlike poem
What is ballad?
200
14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is sonnet?
300
a renewal of the human spirit and curiosity
What is the Renaissance?
300
something that stands for itself but also something else
What is symbol?
300
speech made by a character alone on stage; reveals inner thoughts
What is soliloquy?
300
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
300
attitude a writer takes towards the subject or character
What is tone?
400
focus on chivalry and class
What is Middle Ages?
400
story where characters, setting, plot stands for more than itself/ deeper meaning
What is allegory?
400
two lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
400
long narrative poem
What is epic poem?
400
a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness to bring about social reform
What is satire?
500
a sense of wonder, social idealism, adaptation to change
What is Romantics?
500
writer's choice of words
What is diction?
500
private words to a character or the audience that others cannot hear
What is aside?
500
country life in idyllic, idealized terms
What is pastoral?
500
metaphorical used to name a person, place, or thing
What is kenning?