Literary Terms
MLA and vocab
Literary Movements
Authors/characteristics
Major Works
100

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

What is personification

100

Font size and type for MLA format

What is size 12 Times New Roman?

100

religious focus, predestination, theocracy, plain style

What is Puritanism

100

Jack London's example of naturalism, man vs. nature, survival

What is "To Build a Fire"?

100

Focus on Puritanism, allegory for McCarthyism

What is The Crucible?

200

the author's attitude toward a subject

What is tone?

200

correct parenthetical citation

What is (Author's last name, page#)

200

Emotion, nature, individuality, imagination

What is Romanticism?

200

Fitzgerald's example of modernism and the American dream

What is The Great Gatsby?

200

Symbolic of Gatsby's hopes and the American dream

What is the green light?

300

a reference to another work, person, or event, often classical or biblical

What is an allusion?

300

Hidden, not yet developed

What is latent?

300

nature as indifferent force, determinism

What is Naturalism?

300

Chopin's example of realism, gender, race, identity, and social norms

What is "Desiree's Baby"?

300

shows mass hysteria and hypocrisy

What is The Crucible?

400

comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

400

formed or fashioned

What is wrought?

400

self relance, nature, nonconformity

What is Transcendentalism?

400

Ambrose Bierce's example of realism, irony, civil war themes

What is "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

400

Superficial, wealthy, and careless characters in Gatsby 

Who are Tom and Daisy?

500

underlying message or moral of a story

What is theme?

500

Heavy, slow moving

What is ponderous?

500

focus on everyday life, middle/ lower classes

What is Realism?

500

Poe's examples (two) of gothic literature, psychological horror, unreliable narrators

What is "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?

500

uses imagery and similes to Compare love to fire/ light, foreshadows Armand's coldness

What is "Desiree's Baby"?