Which of the following verse forms originated in Italy, was adapted into English literature during the 1500s, and includes 14 lines? (limerick, sonnet, ballad, dramatic monlogue)
Sonnet (written in Sicily during the 1200s, poet Petrarch popularized it, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard adapted it into English, Shakespeare perfected it).
Walt Whitman brought a new style to 19th century American poetry based on what? Long line and repetitive cadences of _________ ________.
long line and repetitive cadences of biblical verses
What are poets from the Neoclassical period known for doing? (examples: Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, The Dunciad by Alexander Pope)
- heroic couplets
- satirical humor
- mocking hypocrisies of society
- intellectual
What was Ralph Waldo Emerson known of being the leader of? (hint: a movement) And what was a consistent theme in his poems?
- Transcendentalist movement
- He expounded the idea of the interconnectedness of all things, the Great Chain of Being
- Similar to Darwin in his Origin of Species (1859)
This story tells the story of a man of science who brings to life something who eventually takes revenge on him. It is a morality tale about the limits of science
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
What type of rhyme does Yeats use in his poem “Lines Written in Dejection”?
Slant rhymes- which match end sounds that are similar but not exactly the same (i.e. on/moon, bodies/ladies)
What are imagist poems? And who is a poet that used this style of writing?
-Generally written in free verse
-Precisely described images
-William Carlos Williams
“So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain…”
This story of John Milton’s focuses on the theme of mankind’s fall from grace and God’s banishment of Satan from heaven. It was written to justify the ways of God to man.
Paradise Lost
What is an oxymoron?
-a phrase made up of words that seem contradictory when placed together but may actually express a special meaning
-seen in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
“sick health” “still-waking sleep”
What is a ballad? What did they typically include?
- A songlike poem that tells a story and often has a refrain (repeated line/lines)
- included accounts of murders, revenge, violence
What literary movement presents a fragmented view of reality and includes parody, pastiche (imitation), unreliable narrators, etc?
PostModernism
-Nabokov
What is this an example of used by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce to show the thoughts of a character? “Such fools we all are, she thought, crossing Victoria street. For Heaven only knows why one love it so, how one sees it, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it…”
Stream of consciousness
What is “local color” and what writers were a part of this group?
- Regional literature that focused on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features unique to a particular region in the US.
- Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett
Prospero’s speech in The Tempest is implying what to his audience?
-The artificial nature of the play and its performance
Ralph Ellison (an AA writer) wrote Invisible Man. What is the dominant mood of some of the passages?
alienation leading to anger
What is metonymy?
- A figure of speech
- Calling one thing by another related thing
Antony–> Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
-cancerstick= cigarette
These types of poets used outrageous metaphors, extended comparisons, and subtle wit to explore the fundamental nature of reality and humanity’s place in it?
- metaphysical poets
- John Donne, George Herbert
What is the Jacobean revenge play? What is an example of this type of drama?
- dark exploration of human psychology
- crowd pleasing penchant for violence and sex
- Ex: The Changeling
What is this an example of?
Ex: THE GUEST HAVING DEPARTED IN TWOS AND THREES, we decided the party was at an end.
(subordinate clause, an appositive, a verbal phrase, an absolute phrase)
- absolute phrase
- phrase made up of a noun followed by a participle or a participial phrase
- it is called absolute because it does not modify any single word in the sentence
What word contains an overt inflectional ending? television, fastens, assertive, knapsack
- fastens
- because there is an ending that is added to the word that does not change its meaning
A hybrid language such as Spanglish is one usual result of which kind of linguistic behavior?
BORROWING
A recurring feature of literature for young adult is….
-A focus on the thoughts and reactions of an individual character in a situation that takes place over a relatively short period.
Literary works such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, and George Orwell’s 1984 are examples of what type of novel?
- Dystopian novels
- the books listed here imagine horrible totalitarian states where life is regimented and ordinary citizens have little or no freedom.
The allegorical play Everyman is probably the best-known example of what kind of drama?
- Medieval morality play
- Mystery plays and morality plays of the Middle Ages taught Christian stories and values mainly through the use of allegory and symbolism.
