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Vocabulary Week 3
Literature with Schmidt at Grant Community High School
About this deck
By: Jay Wisniewski
Textbook: Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing: AP Edition
Created: 2011-02-04
Size: 20 flashcards
Views: 8
Textbook: Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing: AP Edition
Created: 2011-02-04
Size: 20 flashcards
Views: 8
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Convention
Any established feature or technique in literature that is commonly understood by both authors and readers.
EXAMPLE:
"Once upon a time..." opens a fairy tale.
EXAMPLE:
"Once upon a time..." opens a fairy tale.
Couplet
A two line stanza, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines of equal length.
EXAMPLE:
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;
So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
EXAMPLE:
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;
So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
Cumulative Sentence
Adding details that support an important idea in the beginning of the sentence.
EXAMPLE:
Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.
EXAMPLE:
Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.
Dactyl
Metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables.
EXAMPLE:
EXAMPLE:
- Bat-ter-y
- Par-a-mour
Declarative Sentence
A sentence in the form of a statement (in contrast to a command, a question, or an exclamation). A declarative sentence ends with a period.
EXAMPLE:
I like pie.
EXAMPLE:
I like pie.
Deductive Reasoning
Reaching a conclusion by assuming a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case.
EXAMPLE:
Since shellfish makes me ill, I shouldn't eat the shrimp on this buffet.
EXAMPLE:
Since shellfish makes me ill, I shouldn't eat the shrimp on this buffet.
Denotation
The literal, dictionary meaning of a word.
EXAMPLE:
Snake: a treacherous person; an insidious enemy.
EXAMPLE:
Snake: a treacherous person; an insidious enemy.
Denouement
The resolution or conclusion of a literary work as plot complications are unraveled after the climax.
EXAMPLE:
The denouement of Hamlet is the final scene in which everyone dies.
EXAMPLE:
The denouement of Hamlet is the final scene in which everyone dies.
Deus Ex Machina
Any force or improbably device in plot resolution.
EXAMPLE:
In Donnie Darko, when the car is used as a means to take away Gretchen's body after she is hit by it.
EXAMPLE:
In Donnie Darko, when the car is used as a means to take away Gretchen's body after she is hit by it.
Dialect
Particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class.
EXAMPLE:
Hamlet speaks differently to Claudius and Rosencrantz, people of two different social classes.
EXAMPLE:
Hamlet speaks differently to Claudius and Rosencrantz, people of two different social classes.
Dialogue
The direct representation of the conversation between two or more characters.
EXAMPLE:
Plays
EXAMPLE:
Plays
Diction
Word choice or vocabulary.
EXAMPLE:
"Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still." - T.S. Eliot
EXAMPLE:
"Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still." - T.S. Eliot
Didactic
Intended to teach a specific moral lesson or provide a model of behavior.
EXAMPLE:
Mother Goose Rhymes
EXAMPLE:
Mother Goose Rhymes
Dilemma
A situation in which a character must choose between two choices of action, both undesirable.
EXAMPLE:
Macbeth - Follow Fate vs. Go Against Lady Macbeth
EXAMPLE:
Macbeth - Follow Fate vs. Go Against Lady Macbeth
Dissonance
The use of discordant sounds either to create an unpleasant effect or to create an interesting variation from what is rhythmically expected.
EXAMPLE:
Fierce-throated beauty! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night.
EXAMPLE:
Fierce-throated beauty! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night.
Elegy
A sadly meditative poem, often written on the occasion of a death or other solemn theme.
EXAMPLE:
"Here Captain! dear father!/This arm beneath your head;/It is some dream that on deck,/You've fallen cold and dead." - O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
EXAMPLE:
"Here Captain! dear father!/This arm beneath your head;/It is some dream that on deck,/You've fallen cold and dead." - O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
Ellipsis
Omission of words
EXAMPLE:
The man looked above...all he could see were three black silhouettes against the bright blue sky.
EXAMPLE:
The man looked above...all he could see were three black silhouettes against the bright blue sky.
Enjambment
A line which ends before grammatical and semantic unity has been achieved and where the sense therefore carries on to the next line without a pause.
EXAMPLE:
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair.
EXAMPLE:
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair.
Epic
A long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero.
EXAMPLE:
Beowulf
EXAMPLE:
Beowulf
Epigram
A very short poem, often comic, usually ending with some sharp turn of wit or meaning.
EXAMPLE:
He was too foolish to commit folly.
EXAMPLE:
He was too foolish to commit folly.
About this deck
By: Jay Wisniewski
Textbook: Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing: AP Edition
Created: 2011-02-04
Size: 20 flashcards
Views: 8
Textbook: Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing: AP Edition
Created: 2011-02-04
Size: 20 flashcards
Views: 8
About StudyBlue
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