Use each term correctly in a sentence. Come up with an example for each term and explain why/how the example works for that term.
List 2
- Ballad: song or metrical poem, usually transmitted orally, that tells a story
- Biography: the facts of someone else’s life
- Blank Verse: iambic pentameter poem without a rhyme scheme
- Bowdlerize: to remove indelicate or indecent passages from a text or film
- Breath: the center of being alive; its rhythm indicates mood
- Caesura: a structural and logical pause within a line (punctuated!)
- Canon of Literature: a list of works, compiled by experts that represent an author, time period, or society
- Carpe Diem: seize the day; romantic era philosophy encouraging people to make the most out of the lives they had
- Character Sketch: short, witty prose about a distinctive type of person, or a distinctive person.
- Characterization: creating and establishing specific individuals (characters) in a story, poem, or film
List 3
- Chivalric Romance: narrative style developed in France to showcase the ideal qualities of knights
- Chorus: a group of people in ancient Greek plays who chanted together
- Cliché: overused phrase
- Comedy: meant to amuse; all problems work out perfectly in the end
- Comic Relief: characters, speeches or scenes, in a tragic or dramatic work, meant to provide humor
- Connotation: secondary or associated meanings for a word
- Courtly Love: an elaborate code governing affairs of the heart used among medieval aristocrats
- Consonance: repetition of internal sounds, repetition of end sounds
- Conceit: an unusual or fanciful comparison
- Couplet: rhyme which occurs in two consecutive lines
List 4
- Criticism: term for works concerned with defining, analyzing, classifying, and evaluating words of literature.
- Denotation: dictionary definition of a word; primary definition
- Diction: word choice
- Epic: novella length (150 pgs) poem with dignified theme, organic unity, orderly progress, heroic figures
- Ethos: overall disposition or character of an individual; in rhetoric it is validity of an argument
- Euphemism: an inoffensive expression used in place of a blunt or embarrassing one
- Figurative language: all forms of words that create images (analogy, allusion, alliteration, etc)
- Flashback: narratives or scenes which represent events that happened before the time the story started
- Foot: one complete unit of metrical pattern
- Foreshadow: a hint at an upcoming twist in the plot
- Free Verse: uses common sense and natural expression; must feel like a poem; plays with expectations of readers and poets; poetry with varying line length that does not need to rhyme
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