English Midterm
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47 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| parataxis |  juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions |
| synecdoche | part of speech when the part is used for the whole |
| verisimilitude | has the appearance of truth or reality, something's similar |
| epic | extended narrative poem celebrating heroes whose actions determine the fate of a whole community |
| prose | ordinary form of spoken or written language |
| genre | category of artistic works |
| foreshadowing | when you mention a scene that will appear later in the play |
| estate satire | survey of different classes in the Canterbury tales |
| allusion | reference to something either historical or from another literary text |
| kenning | poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing |
| caesura | an extended pause in a line of verse |
| tragedy | type of play or book where most of the people have a downfall |
| meter | pattern of rhythm in verse |
| lyric | poem with rhyming that usually expresses personal feelings |
| connotation | implied meaning |
| soliloquy | when someone talks to him/herself in a play |
| folio | large book or manuscript |
| tone | speakers feelings |
| metaphor | comparing two things without using like or as |
| enjambment | when you relate to the punctuation to stop, instead of the end of a line in poetry |
| alliteration | repetition of sounds at beginning of words |
| romance | story with nobles, princes, princesses. most fairy-tales |
| iambic pentameter | five feet of unstressed to stressed syllables |
| doppelganger | stunt double |
| denotation | literal meaning, definition |
| couplet | two line stanza |
| manuscript | handwritten book |
| third-person narration | the narrator is a character in the book, who never talks about himself |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| end-stopped | poem containing pauses at line-endings |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words |
| fabliaux | comic, bawdy in nature, has people in it |
| frame tale | bigger story that contains many smaller stories |
| bard | poet |
| personification | adding human characteristics to something non-human |
| stanza | group of lines in poetry |
| pilgrimage | religious journey, trip to a special place |
| novel | long story, literary genre |
| metonymy | figure of speech in which a thing is not called by its own name, but instead by something that is related to it |
| physiognomy | when a characters external appearance reveals their internal appearance |
| fairy tale | fictional story that has folkloric characters |
| elegy | poem about loss |
| apposition | subsitution of different names for the same noun |
| satire | literary genre or form where human stupidity is attacked through irony |
| quatrain | four line stanza |
| bourgeois | member of the middle class |
| first-person narrative | narrative mode where the story is narrated by only one character at a time, who refers to him/herself |
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