Literary Terms | Poetry Terms | Beloved | The Awakening | Starts with R |
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What is chiasmus?
This syntactical structure is the inverse of parallel structure and means X in Greek.
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What is a quatrain?
This is what you call a grouping of four lines, either separated as a stanza or sharing a rhyming pattern.
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What is Sweet Home?
This is the name of Mr. Garner's plantation.
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Who is Kate Chopin?
This is the author of the 1899 novel
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Who is Raynell?
She's the daughter of Alberta, Troy, and Rose.
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What is polysyndeton?
This is an example: "I was tired of cooking and cleaning and ironing and shopping and wiping tears."
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What is euphony?
This term describes the effect achieved by a harmonious combination of words, usually words with soft vowels and consonants and/or a flowing rhythm.
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What is Sethe's infanticide by slit throat?
This is how the baby Beloved died.
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What is painting?
This is the type of art Edna practiced.
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What is rose?
This is the color of Beloved's headstone.
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What is synesthesia?
This term indicates the depiction of one sensory experience using language that normally is used to describe one of the other senses.
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What is blank verse?
It's definition is "unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter," and is found throughout Shakespeare's plays.
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What is a chokecherry tree?
This is how Sethe describes the scars on her back.
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What is swimming?
This physical activity from the beginning and end of the novel symbolized Edna's independence.
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What is Robert Lebrun?
This is the full name of Edna's love interest.
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What is euphemism?
This is the use of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
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What is a sestina?
This highly structured poetic form substitutes rhyme scheme for the repetition of six key words at the ends of lines.
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What is Mister?
This is the name of Paul D.'s arch-rival farm animal.
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Who is Adele Ratignolle?
This secondary character served as a foil for Edna's ideas about womanhood.
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What is Reiz?
This is the last name of the piano player in Chopin's The Awakening.
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What is catharsis?
From the Greek "purification" or "cleansing," this term refers to the purgation of emotions, especially pity or fear, through art, resulting in renewal or restoration.
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What is a trochee?
This metrical foot has the opposite rhythmic pattern of an iamb.
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What is stream of consciousness?
This is the style of writing that characterizes much of Toni Morrison's novel.
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What is the piano?
When Mademoiselle Reisz plays this instrument, Edna is inspired to live a life of passion.
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Who is Robert Frost?
He is the author of "Birches" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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