Language Arts 11 midterm 10/09 matching
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 personifiction | "the lake swallowed up the house." |
| assonance | "And the silken sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain |
| Edgar Allan Poe | University of Virginia dropout, his wife was also Virginia |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| single effect | Edgar Allan Poe's theory |
| "To Helen" | Jane Stanard inspired |
| allusion | "The glory that was Greece" |
| Alfred Hitchcock | famous director inspired by Poe |
| Washington Irving work | Rip Van Winkle |
| consonance | "Quoth the raven, Nevermore" |
| Romanticists | Favored emotion over reason |
| "Thanatopsis" | literary means "death vision" |
| informal literary groups | Knickerbocker or Bread and Cheese |
| a fictional hypochondriac | Rodrick Usher |
| protagonist of "The Fall of the House of Usher" | Jonathan Beranger |
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