English CPI Exam First Semester
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Edwards | wrote, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | wrote, "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls |
| Edward Taylor | wrote, "Huswifery" |
| Figure of Speech | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be taken literally |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes within a poem |
| Transcendentalism | a 19th century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience |
| Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are stressed |
| Ballad | a song or poem that tells a story |
| Idyll | a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting |
| Paraphrase | a restatement of a text in your own words |
| Parallelism | the repetition of grammatically similar words, phrases, clauses, or sentences to emphasize a point or stir the emotions of a reader or listener |
| Rationalism | the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason |
| Deism | the belief that God had made it possible for all people at all times to discover natural laws through their God-given power of reason |
| Captivity Narrative | a written work that was inspired by events of a captivity (slavery). It could have been completed during captivity, or after captivity. |
| Style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language |
| Henry David Thoreau | wrote, "Resistance to Civil Government" |
| Romanticism | the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason |
| Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience |
| William Cullen Bryant | wrote, "Thanatopsis" |
| Pun | a play on words based on multiple meanings of a single word or words that sound alike but mean different things |
| Inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase |
| Tone | the overall attitude of the author towards what he or she is writing about |
| Sermon | any serious speech, discourse, or exhoration, especially on a moral issue |
| Mood | a distinctive emotional quality or character |
| Archaisms (Archaic Language) | words (or language) that we no longer use or that has changed meaning over time |
| Slant Rhyme | is a close, but not exact, rhyming sound. Ex: society/majority or nerve/love |
| Extended Metaphor | a metaphor that is extended or developed over a number of lines |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | wrote, "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus" |
| Satire | the use of ridicule to expose the shortcomings of things that the author observes |
| Gothic | a type of mood in a written work |
| Allusion | a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture |
| Caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry |
| William Bradford | wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation" |
| Mary Rowlandson | wrote "A Narrative of the Captivity" |
| Symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character |
| Plain Style | a style of writing that emphasized uncomplicated sentences and the use of everyday words from common speech, and discouraged the use of elaborate figures of speech and imagery |
| Sonnet | a rhymed 14 line poem, usually written in Iambic Pentameter |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. (Iambic Pentameter is a line of poetry that contains five iambic feet) |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison such as: like, as, than, or resembles |
| Iamb | a metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word, "protect" |
| Rhetorical Question | a question that is asked for effect. (so the person asking the question already knows the answer for it) |
| Anne Bradstreet | wrote, "Upon the Burning of Our House" |
| Aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things that are alike in certain respects |
| Theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | wrote, "Nature" |
| Fireside Poets | poets like Longfellow, Holmes and Bryant, that wrote romanticistic poetry. They were given the nickname, "fireside poets," because their poems were read around the fireplace |
| Onomatopoeia | a poetic technique in which the sounds of words are used to echo their sense |
| Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory but that reveals a kind of truth |
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