EOCT/GA Milestones Am. Lit. REVIEW

A division, or type, of literature

Break down and interpret elements

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Information that is used to spread support or show contradictory ideas

Hemingway; Fitzgerald; Cather

Use of similar or identical language, structure, events, or ideas in different parts of text

A traditional story that deals with a particular person (hero, saint, national leader)

Anne Bradstreet; Jonathan Edwards

Poetry that expresses observations & feelings of single speaker

Beauty of nature; "Self" and individual a major theme

Unconventional style; dissatisfaction with traditions

Central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work

Environment in which story takes place---includes time and place

Literary device in which meaning is contrary to words or actions

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

An all-knowing narrator

Perspective from which a story is told

Depicts world as it is; objectivity

Edgar Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville

Moment when character/person has a flash of insight in a situation

Expression that cannot be understood from meanings of individual words

Contradictory terms are combined

"Explosion" of literary works by African-Americans in the mid-1930s

Literary period that features more cultural diversity and women's voices

Longfellow; Bryant; Whittier

Beginning words to "The Raven"

Emerson; Thoreau

Records injustices of slavery and how writer escaped/was freed

The word "countenance" means:

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Era of Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman

Meta-fiction; advances in technology; Civil Rights era

Various feelings, images, and memories associated with a word

Correct punctuation for citing book titles

"There are words like Liberty/That almost make me cry . . . ."

The voice of a poem

Civil War era

"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there."

Another word that means the end of the story's conflict

Feelings and intuition more important than process of reasoning

Writing characterized by short words, direct statements, & references to everyday objects

"I celebrate myself . . . ." author

Ben Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; Olaudah Equiano

A person or object that stands for an idea

Short account of amusing or interesting event

Essential introductory element that must be in paragraph of essay

Discovering truths for self about world using intellect and scientific method

Shows omission of text with dots

Plain style; realistic writing with an emphasis on religious themes

Author's attitude toward subject matter or toward reader or audience

"Self-Reliance" "Walden"

Writers felt discontented, defiant, and disillusioned; "Lost Generation"

Wise saying or proverb

Writing that ridicules/criticizes a person, idea, institution, society, or other work of art

Opponent or enemy of main character

Oral tradition; myths about spirit world & nature

Mankind is basically good; divine is present in nature

Writing that tells the story of real-life events

Way a writer composes words to make sentences

Firsthand accounts of travels that record details about observations

A writer's or speaker's word choice

Mark Twain; Kate Chopin;

Language that portrays sensory experiences

Emphasis on "fate" and "survival"

"Rip Van Winkle"; "Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass"; "The Raven"

Writer's unique way of telling a story or informing a reader

Multiple ways of viewing African American experience

The reader or listener

Nonfiction autobiographical writing focusing on a significant event

An expression or a word used imaginatively rather than literally

Focus of violence of war; Focus on essays; Technoculture

Factual information without supporting a particular view