Literature

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“The Story of an Hour” Written by...

Kate Chopin

“A Rose for Emily” Written by...

William Faulkner

“Soldier’s Home” Written by...

Ernest Hemingway

“Eveline” Written by...

James Joyce

“Summer” Written by...

David Updike

“That Room” Written by...

Tobias Wolff

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Writen by...

Flannery O’Connor

“Cask of Amontillado” Written by...

Edgar Allan Poe

“Popular Mechanics” Written by...

Raymond Carver

“Lust” Written by...

Susan Minot

“Boys” Written by...

Rick Moody

Oedipus The King Written by...

Sophocles

Othello Written by...

William Shakespeare

Denouement is

the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

Stream of consciousness

a narrative mode or method that attempts to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind

Diction

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

Soliloquy

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

Aside

happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.

Catharsis

emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and st

Hamartia

a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.

Hubris

excessive pride or self-confidence.

Formalist Criticism

having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influen

Marxist Criticism

literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories.

Psychological Criticism

deals with the work of literature as an expression of the personality, state of mind, feelings, and desires of it's author.

Feminist Criticism

It uses feminist principles and ideology to critique the language of literature.

"Saving Sourdi" Written by...

May-Lee Chai

"Those Winter Sundays" Written by...

Robert Hayden

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Written by...

Randall Jarrell

"We Real Cool" Written by...

Gwendolyn Brooks

"Ode On A Grecian Urn" Written by...

John Keats

"To Autumn" Written by...

John Keats

"The Lamb" Written by...

William Blake

"London" Written By...

William Blake

"The Tyger" Written by...

William Blake

"Dulce et Decorum Est" Written by...

Wilfred Owens

"Macbeth" Written by...

William Shakespeare

"Presentiment-Is That Long Shadow-On The Lawn-" Written by...

Emily Dickinson

"A Bird Came down the Walk" Written by...

Emily Dickinson

"I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died-" Written by...

Emily Dickinson

"The Author To Her Book" Written by...

Anne Bradstreet

"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" Written by...

John Donne

"Acquainted With The Night" Written by...

Robert Frost

"Out, Out" Written by...

Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken" Written by...

Robert Frost

"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" Written by...

Robert Frost

"My Last Duchess" Written by...

Robert Browning

"Ode To The West Wind" Written By...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Ozymandias" Written by...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Harlem" Written by...

Langston Hughes

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Written by...

T.S. Eliot

"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" Written by...

Shakespeare

"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Written by...

Dylan Thomas

"The Hand That Signed the Paper" Written By...

Dylan Thomas

ode

a lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms

Epiphany

character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding

Epigraph

phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component

Eye Rhyme

When words use the same spelling for a portion of the word, but the pronunciations are different.

Meter

A unit of rhythm

Foot

Most basic of a units meter

Spondee

metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables

Iambic Pentameter

a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accent

Blank Verse

device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter

Synecdoche

literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Apostrophe

a term used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem

Scansion

refers to the process of analyzing a poem's meter.

Italian or Petrarchan sonnet

consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.

English sonnet

a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg