English May Exam
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Created by:
sdahl on January 24, 2012
Subjects:
Poetry, Romeo and Juliet minor characters
Description:
Pleasurable poetry practice, and more...
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English | Chemistry |
|---|---|
 organic imagery | trying to capture underlying bodily feelings (hunger, thirst) |
| olfactory | scent imagery |
| tactile | touch imagery |
| gustatory | taste imagery |
| pathetic fallacy | when nature reflects the emotional qualities of a character ex: raining at a funeral. This is esp. imp. in Jane Eyre!!! :) |
| metonymy | using something closely associated with the object itself ex: the Patriots rose up and fought the Crown |
| synecdoche | using a small part of something to refer to larger whole ex: nice threads homie! |
| allegory | system of metaphor and allusion that refers to a story outside text (generally biblical or mythical) |
| oxymoron | short phrase seemingly contradictory but nevertheless true ex: cold fire (Widow's Lament) |
| overstatement/hyperbole | to draw our attention to the truth by grossly over-exaggerating it |
| Irony | unexpected or unintended result, often of an action |
| allusion | reference to something outside text |
| tone | writer or speaker's attitude towards subject |
| free verse | absence of any pattern or meter |
| blank verse | un-rhymed iambic pentameter (Shakespeare!!) |
| caesuras/enjambment | pause within a line (period, comma) |
| iambic | unaccented, accented ex: the cook |
| trochaic | accented, unaccented ex: cookie |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sound |
| consonance | repetition of middle or end consonants |
| tetrameter | 4 feet per line (so, 2x4=8 syllables per line) |
| pentameter | 5 feet per line (so, 2x5=10 syllables per line) |
| apostrophe | an address to something inanimate or not there |
| Balthasar | tells Romeo in Act 4 about Juliet's "death" |
| Friar John | fails to relay message of plan to Romeo b/c held up in house b/c thought to have "the plague" |
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