Defintions
A serious play in which the chief figures, by some peculiarity of character, pass through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe.
What is a tragedy?
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
is an example of this type of verse
What is a couplet?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
is an example of this type of poetry
What is a sonnet?
American Airlines, Best Buy, Coca-Cola
are all examples of this type of sound device
What is alliteration?
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongues into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
is an example of this type of literary term
What is a metaphor?
general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs; the setting of an episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place.
What is setting?
Unit of poetic rhythm consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable is called this type of meter
What is iambic?
“Western Wind” by Anonymous
Western wind, when will thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ, if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again!
is an example of this type of poem
What is a lyric poem?
"She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.”
is an example of this type of sound device
What is consonance?
Julius Caesar statement, "Cowards die many times before their deaths", is an example of this literary device.
What is oxymoron or paradox?
a character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation
What is a stereotype?
Robert Frost: As I came to the edge of the woods
is an example of this type of meter.
What is a trimeter?
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
II.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms!
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
These four-line verses are often called this term.
What is a stanza?
"The gushing stream flows in the forest”
is n example of this type of sound device
What is onomatopoeia?
I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,
I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, or following,
Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals...
What is rhythm?
A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work.
What is the theme?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate.
uses this type of meter
What is pentameter?
This type of poem is also the most constrained in terms of rhyme structure and stanza division. It is divided into an octave and a sestet, rhyming a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a, and c-d-e-c-d-e.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
“With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call.”
is an example of sound device you may come across
What is cacophony?
Jim: "We's safe, Huck, we's safe! Jump up and crack yo' heels. Dat's de good ole Cairo at las', I jis knows it."
Huck: "I'll take the canoe and go see, Jim. It mightn't be, you know."
is an example of this literary device
What is dialect?
A type of verse or narrative in which characters and events are fashioned to be literary representations of ideas, moral or religious principles, or other figures or events.
What is an Allegory?
Out of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is,
Full of the sunset, and sad, if at all, with the fullness of joy,
As a wind sets in with the autumn that blows from the region of stories,
Blows with a perfume of songs and of memories beloved from a boy.
uses this type of meter
What is hexameter?
"True Thomas lay oer yond grassy bank,
And he beheld a ladie gay,
A ladie that was brisk and bold,
Come riding oer the fernie brae."
is an example of this type ofpoem
What is a ballad?
"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
is an example of this sound device
What is euphony?
"Wealth and poverty, guilt and grief, orange and apple, God and Satan; let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and the slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance. . . ." - Henry David Thoreau.
This quote uses this literary
What is juxtaposition?