Unit 1
food or provisions
What is Victuals?
to censure or criticize severely; rebuke or punish
What is Chastise?
to make a long oration or speak at length
What is harangue?
to make white or pale
What is blanch?
made up of a large but indefinite number
What is Myraid?
the use of narrative structure and artistic interpretation
What is author's craft?
situational: like a quest or epic battle
character: like a hero or the damsel in distress
What is Archetypes?
to create emphasis by intentionally giving less significance to a situation than it really has (saying less than is actually true)
What is understatment?
anaphora, imagery, metaphor, personification, and simile
What is figurative language in poetry?
pacing, flashback or flash-forward, parallel plot, subplot, and framing
What is narrative text structures?
the task of breaking down multiple questions in a response
What is deconstructing a prompt?
the goal of creating a visual representation of your ideas and the connections between them–preewriting technique
What is mind-mapping?
having a character race against time–especially before the climax
What is ticking clock scenario?
an author’s or a character’s attitudes, values, or opinions that influence the representation of a topic.
What is perspective?
should be accurate, sufficient, and relevant to the claim; adds evidence to expand or elaborate on a particular idea, if needed
What is textual evidence?
the literary device in this line “The third day Christ arose from out the grave”
What is Allusion?
the excerpt from John Donne’s “Breake of Day.”
Light hath no tongue, but is all eye;
If it could speake as well as spie,
This were the worst, that it could say,
That being well, I faine would stay.
What is personification?
the excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels.
His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, ... frequently honored me with his visits, and was pleased to assist my masters in teaching me. We began already to converse together in some sort; and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire “that he would please give me my liberty;” which I every day repeated on my knees. His answer, as I could comprehend it, was, “that this must be a work of time, not to be thought on without the advice of his council.”
What is irony?
the excerpt from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,”
Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bell-pull.
“You see it, Watson?” he yelled. “You see it?”
But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing.
What is ambiguity?
Read the excerpt from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier,
I can close my eyes now, and look back on it, and see myself as I must have been, standing on the threshold of the house, a slim, awkward figure in my stockinette dress, clutching in my sticky hands a pair of gauntlet gloves. I can see the great stone hall, the wide doors open to the library, the Peter Lelys and the Vandykes on the walls, the exquisite staircase leading to the minstrels’ gallery, and there, ranged one behind the other in the hall, overflowing to the stone passages beyond, and to the dining-room, a sea of faces, open-mouthed and curious, gazing at me as though they were the watching crowd about the block, and I the victim with my hands behind my back.
What is FlashBack?
read the excerpt from "Beowulf,"
"Came Wealhtheow forth,
queen of Hrothgar, heedful of courtesy,
gold-decked, greeting the guests in hall;
and the high-born lady handed the cup
first to the East-Danes’ heir and warden,
bade him be blithe at the beer-carouse,
the land’s beloved one."
What narrative element is used _____.
What is characterization?
in Gothic Romanticism it can introduce different, gloomier moods and can provide plot twists
What is multiple plot lines?
Chapter 1 of The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, contains a detailed description of the setting. The description starts off as quite poetic and beautiful, and it then incorporates Gothic elements that establish a dark and mysterious feeling. What is the author trying to accomplish,__________?
What is establishing tone in exposition?
the author’s selection of specific words and phrases that can help the reader hone in on a specific perspective in the narrative text.
What is Word Choice?
Frankenstein rejects his father’s attempts at comfort and blames himself for the deaths of his brother and his friends (Shelley 123-124).
What is citing a summary?