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Fables of Aesop, Animal Farm, and Watership Down feature animals in human shape with human characteristics.
What is anthropomorphism?
type of writing It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: type of writing
What is belles- lettres? (bel-letr)bel-letr
In The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye have young characters coming of age
What is bildungsroman ? (bil-du ̇ ŋ(k)s-rō-män)bil-du ̇ ŋ(k)s-rō-män
Means good word A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
What is a bon mot (boN mo)?bon motboN mo
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…..."
What is caesura? (si-zyu ̇ r- ə )
The curfew tolls the knells of parting day
What is a consonance?
My Last Duchess narrated by imaginary character whose flaws are revealed
What is dramatic monologue?
My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and more slow. To His Coy Mistress
What is enjambment?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatize internal struggle between good and evil
What is an Doppelganger (dopple-ganger)?
The Color Purple is a novel in the form of letters
What is epistolary novel?
Geofrey Chaucer The Pardoners Tale is a tale with a moral message.
What is exemplum?
In Richard Wrights Native Son, the act that seals Bigger Thomass fate is his first impulsive murder
What is hamartia?
Nash: I never make way for a fool, Wesley: Dont you? I always do. and steps aside.
What is repartee? (rep ə r tē)
In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway uses friends as models for his characters
What is roman a clef ? ( roman à clé: French ) roman à clé
A dainty things the Villanelle, Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme, It serves its purpose passing well, A double-clappered silver bell, that must be made to clink in chime, A dainty things the Villanelle,…. (19 lines five tercets and a concluding quatrain, only two diff sounds)
What is Villanelle? (vi-l ə -nel) (vi-l ə -nel)
3-line stanzas alternating rhyme As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay This was the tenour of my waking dream. Methought I sate beside a public way Thick strewn with summer dust, and a great stream
What is terza rima? (tert-s ə -rē-m ə What is terza rima? (tert-s ə -rē-m ə )
"Oh, Death, be not proud."
What is apostrophe?
Latin--"seize the day.
What is Carpe diem?
Ask not what your country can do for you rather what you can do for your country
What is chiasmus ? chiasmus
My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires and more slow. To His Coy Mistress
What is Enjambment?
He lost his coat and his temper
What is a Syllepsis?
and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights…
What is Polysyndeton? Polysyndeton
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
What is Polyptoton?
The U.S. won three gold medals.
What is Synecdoche? Synecdoche
What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.
What is paradox?