Vocabulary pt. 1
An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself
What is metonymy?
The original subject being described in a metaphor
What is tenor?
A very popular Russian arachnologist
Who was Alexander Petrunkevitch?
Animal the bird let pass
What is a beetle?
The more fertile animal in the story
What is a spider?
Words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions
What is imagery?
Comparing two things using like, as, or as if
What is simile?
Poet who's two great passions were politics and poetry
Who was Edmund Waller?
Author of "A Bird Came Down the Walk"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The spider stated in the story
What is a tarantula?
Recurring or emerging ideas in a work
What is theme?
The image the tenor is being compared to
What is vehicle?
Writer of the first ever poem
Who was Adam? (Gen. 2:23)
The unrolling of the feathers illustrates
What is synecdoche?
In a biblical worldview, the tarantula behaves stupidly because of
What is God created the spider with that order and had intelligent design?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
What is synecdoche?
Words that are pleasant or musical to the ear
What is euphony?
Wrote under the alias "Mark Twain"
Who was Samuel Clemmons?
The point of view for this poem is from this person
Who is the poet?
Author of "The Spider and the Wasp"
Who was Alexander Petrunkevitch?
An extended metaphor that forms an entire story with two or more levels of meaning
What is an allegory?
Three marks to great literature
What is theme, imaginative comparison, and organization of sound & syntax?
Poet that used African-American dialect
Who was Langston Hughes?
The type of worm mentioned in the poem
What is an Angle Worm?
The more intelligent animal in the story
What is a wasp?