Lit Terms Basics Poetry Lit Terms Advanced Lit Terms Wolff and Angelou Thurber and Douglass
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What is diction?
A word used to describe the author's word choice.
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What is scheme?
When there is a consistent pattern of rhyming in a poem, we call it a rhyme _______.
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What is connotation?
Denotation refers to the dictionary definition of a word. This term refers to its implied, suggested, or associated meaning.
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What is Champion?
In Wolff's memoir, this is the ironic name of Dwight's dog.
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What is dramatic irony?
Thurber often uses this type of irony, which refers to the type of irony where the audience knows something the characters don't know.
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What is tone?
This word is used when discussing the author's attitude toward his/her subject.
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What is a quatrain?
The technical term for a four-line stanza.
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What is assonance?
The line "roaming the homes of woe" contains what type of sound repetition?
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What is Marguerite?
In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is the author, but we call the protagonist this.
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Who is Mrs. Auld?
Douglass describes how slavery transforms this woman from a gentle "lamb" to a fierce "tiger."
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What is mood?
This word is used when discussing the effect of a written piece on the reader (how it makes the reader feel).
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What is enjambment?
In poetry, when a line is not end-stopped, but instead the thought runs from one line to the next.
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What is a symbol?
An object that is itself (literally) in a text, but also represents something more.
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Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
The title of Angelou's memoir is based on the poem "Sympathy" by this writer.
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What is "The Night the Bed Fell"?
Thurber's first chapter is titled this.
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What is an allusion?
A reference to something in history, popular culture, or another work of literature.
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What is the speaker?
In prose, we call it the narrator. In poetry, we call it this.
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What is alliteration?
The line "calling all creepy crawlers" contains this type of repetition regarding the "k" sound.
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Who is Sister James?
Jack feels uncomfortable around this nun, because he feels like she can "see through" him.
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What is Columbus, Ohio?
This city is the location of most of Thurber's memoir, including the story "The Day the Dam Broke."
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What is characterization?
When a prose writer uses details, description, dialogue, or plot events to reveal a character's personality or motivations, we call it this.
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What is slant rhyme (or near rhyme)?
A type of ryming in which two words almost rhyme (but not quite), such as "slight" and "blot"
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What is auditory, visual, gustatory, thermal, kinetic, olfactory, and/or tactile imagery?
These are five different types of imagery (e.g. sound, sight, heat/cold, touch, smell, taste, motion, etc.)
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What is "School" and "Home"?
Wolff has a chapter titled "Citizenship in the ______" and another chapter titled Citizenship in the _______"
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What is Chiasmus?
"You have seen how a man was made into a slave. Now you will see how a slave was made into a man" is an example of this stylistic device, often used by Douglass.






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