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If we don't adopt the puppy, he may never find a home!
Vantage point from which a story is told
What is Point of View?
Not believing in the supernatural; The theory that the basis of knowledge is the reason, rather than experience or divine revelation.
What is rationalism?
A synopsis, abridgment, paraphrase, condensation, or epitome
What is Precis?
verse without rhyme
What is Blank verse?
The sky is dark and cloudy at the beginning of the story. By the end of the day in the story, it has begun to rain.
What is Verisimilitude?
Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and that reproduces the speech, behavior, and attitudes of the people who live in that region.
What is Regionalism?
When a neighborhood becomes the home of many artists
What is Renaissance?
Characteristic of an interest in the more natural past and in the supernatural; love of nature and contempt for technology
What is Romanticism?
poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm
What is Free Verse?
The Red Badge of Courage
In his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, Crane invited readers to explore the real life of a soldier during the time. His novel shined a light on the conditions of soldiers along with the realities of the battlefield.
What is Realism?
Informal diction
What is slang?
If [mu]sic [be] the [food] of [love], play [on] …
That [strain] ag[ain]! it [had] a [dy]ing [fall]:
What is Scansion/Scanning?
Couplet, Octave
What is Stanza?
I want to be cremated as it is my last hope for a smoking hot body.
What is pun?
Prove and Love
What is Slant rhyme?
Workings of a character's mind
What is stream of consciousness?
Do you like my new wheels?
What is Synecdoche?
Movement to replace realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind.
What is Surrealism?
A lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms
What is ode?
"The Yachts" [three-line stanza aba, bcb, cdc]
What is Terza rima?
Word order and sentence structure
What is Syntax?
selfishness, anger, lack of judgment
What is Tragic flaw?
Closed-form poem of nineteen lines
What is Villanella?
The belief that man is at this best when he is independent, and not a part of organized religion or politics.
What is Transcendentalism?