Vocab Presentation

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Metonymy

A figure of speech in which a term naming an object is substituted for another word with which it is closely associatedEx:

• Crown - in place of a royal person• The White House - in place of the

President or others who work there

Mock Heroic

A type of a satire using an elevated style out of proportion to its trivial subject

ex) Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

Mood

The overall atmosphere in a workEx: serious, cold, passionate, dreary

Motif

Recurring image

ex) incest and incestous desire in Hamlet

Myth

Traditional tale of unknown authorship involving gods and goddesses or other supernatural beings, often explaining some aspect of nature

Greek myths: Hercules, the Minotaur, Medusa

Narrative Structure/Techniques

Using a chronology of events, plot, conflict, characterization, setting, and/or other elements to convey tone, purpose, of effect

ex) non-linear narratives in The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Narrator

Person telling the story

Ex: ● Lemony Snicket in A Series of

Unfortunate Events

Naturalism

19th century literary movement that carried Realism to the extreme by creating characters doomed by heredity and/or environment

• authors W. D. Howells (1837-1920), Frank Norris (1870-1902), and Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

• works contain elements of Naturalism: Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) and John Steinbeck (1902-68)

Non Sequitur

An inference or conclusion that does not follow from an established premise or evidence

"In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man." - Mark Twain

Novel of Manners

Narrative which defines social mores of a specific group, often the upper middle class

Ex: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

OctaveAn eight line poem OR the first eight lines of an Italian(Petrarchan) sonnet

Sonnet 19 by John MiltonWhen I consider how my light is spentEre half my days in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, lest he returning chide,"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent (Lines 1-8)

OdeA long lyric poem, formal in style and complex in form, often written in commemoration or celebration of a special quality, object, or occasion

“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats Away! away! for I will fly to thee,Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,But on the viewless wings of Poesy,Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:Already with thee! (lines 31–35)

Onomatopoeia

Use of words whose meanings imitate their sounds

Ex: splash, drip, click, clang, bang

Organization

Arranging evidence to support a thesisEx: Introduction with Thesis

Thesis Support• Point #1

• Point #2

• Point #3

Conclusion

Oxymoron

Figure of speech that combines contradictory termsEx: The same difference

Act naturally Sweet agony

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The Matching Game

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