Literary Terms
A central idea which gives a work meaning
THEME
Who/what took the plant away from Gilgamesh?
a serpant
Who is the main character who seeks eternal life?
Gilgamesh
A comparison using like or as.
Simile
Who wrote "The Gift to Sing"?
James Weldon Johnson
Where and when the action of the work takes place
SETTING
Who was the Englishman who wagered that he could travel the world in 80 days?
Mr. Phileas Fogg
Who is the friend whose death motivates the main character to travel search for everlasting life?
Enkidu
A comparison in which one thing is stated in terms of another.
Metaphor
When Phileas Fogg wanted to come back and fight the American who threatened him, what was he seeking to maintain?
His honor
What the author seeks to communicate...
MESSAGE
Who wrote "The Vagabond"?
Robert Louis Stevenson
To stay awake for 6 days and 7 nights
A comparison in which human qualities are given to inanimate objects or animals.
Personification
Romanticism doesn't have to do with actual romance, but rather what?
Nature
A direct or indirect hint at an event that will take place in the future
FORESHADOWING
"Sonnet 26: I Lived With Visions for My Company" was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning after who had come into her life?
Her husband - Robert Browning
What did the main character desire to do with the plant that was believed to restore youth?
Share it with old men in Uruk
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
What is one of the themes of "The Gift to Sing"?
A way to analyze literature by using specific evidence in a text to draw conclusions about the text.
CLOSE READING
What poem did Alfred Lord Tennyson write based on the battle of Balaklava?
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
What ultimately was Gilgamesh's destiny?
Kingship
The writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject.
Tone
In John Milton's "Sonnet 19", the lines:
"Who best
Bear his mild yoke,
They serve him best"
represents what theme?
Service