English 2 vocab and lit terms final

reticent

soporific

sagacious

raconteur

expedite

vapid

scrupulous

insipid

querulous

consort

novel

perdition

deference

affable

raucous

prosaic

catharsis

truncheon

prattle

diffident

fatuity

penitent

quandary

volition

apathetic

ameliorate

odious

precarious

pugnacious

engrossed

quell

antiquated

loquacious

voluble

arrested

presumptuous

disparage

obsidian

cacophony

pariah

nascent

erudite

exacting

misanthrope

derision

enkindle

benign

stratagem

repetition of consonant sounds; example is "Do not go gentle into that good night" where t is repeated in sentences

referencing or adressing a character or person who is not in the poem or story; example is the title, "Oh Captain, My Captain!" and how it adresses the captain without talking to him

repetiton of vowel sounds; example is "In the silence of the night, how we shiver with afright" from "The Bells"

using words and stanzas to paint an image or evoke an emotional response; example is "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Williams and how it depicts a wagon in the rain.

the feeling that the writer wanted to convey in a work. Example is choosing words like abysmal instead of bad.

movement where words and sentences are used to paint a picture or get a response. an example of an imagist is Williams, who painted images in The Red Wheelbarrow and This is Just to Say.

type of writing that displays the way that people from a certain area talks. an Example is how Mark Twain takes letters out of words to make dialogue sound more local.

using symbols or words to represent something else; an Example of symbolism is representing God as wind or fire or any symbol.

having a 2 words in lines that end the same but differ by the 1st letter. example of this is smart and cart.

part represents the whole; example is all hands on deck

splitting a sentence into 2 or more lines; example is

• I went to the store
• and found stuff

giving an inanimate object human qualities; example is the tree reached for us in the wind.

literary movement that was about reality and how the world really was; example of realism is an Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce

literary movement about present day; example of Modernism is Out Out

• poetry without meter or rhyme; example is
• The guy ran into the house
• He found a sandwich

repeating the same verb form and sentence structure to emphasize a point; example is I ran, jumped, and swam.

point of view that the narrator can only see into 1 person's thoughts; example is narration from The Old Man and the Sea.

point of view where the narrator can see the thoughts of all characters. Example is Charlottes Web

point of view that talks about people receiving an action

subject of the work; example is the Need for America to rebel in Paine's Crisis

A reference to something later in the book without explaining it; example is in the Bible, Jesus alludes that he will die and rise again many times

extreme exaggeration; example is : This ways a ton

poetry without rhyme but has iambic pentameter; example is Frost's The Road Not Taken

Realism with the belief in a greater force outisde the individual; example is Jack London's to Build a Fire

literature that uses tormented and grotesque characters; example is The Raven by Poe

what the reader feels when reading a piece of literature; example is feeling scared when reading a horror novel

conflict or trials that happen in a character; example is a man fighting his conscience

conflict between a character and something else; example is man against nature

word is used for a sound effect; example is boom

when the 1st letters of multiple words in a row are the same; Counting cranky crows cackling

rhyme where 2 syllables at the end rhyme; examples are grumbling and rumbling

when 1 syllable rhymes with 1 of another; example is hard and shard

literary movement where the individual is important and nature is good; example of transcendentalism is Walden by Thoreau

title or name associated with him; example is King Richard III

a block of lines that divide a poem; example is any block of poetry, like "Old Age Sticks"

irony where a situation is known by the Audience and not the characters of a play; example is when Juliet is calling to Romeo and she does not know Romeo is there

a situation turns out differently than what is expected; example: Couple gets divorced and during the divorce hearings, they fall in love and get married again.