Lit Terms 5

"A Modest Proposal" is one of the most famous examples of _____

"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf"

A stormy ____ is usually symbolic to a conflict going on amongst the characters

To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished.

a kind of burlesque that is humorous imitation of serious writing

the pattern of rhyme

the speaker or narrator of a text or poem

The mechanics of verse poetry-- its sounds, rhythms, scansion and meter, etc

the leading character in a literary work

the time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs

War is a mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing...

using many conjuctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence

the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject

exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words

the series of happenings in the literary work

when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length

the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings

a figure of speech involving comparison using "like" or "as"

Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay...

a play on words

Shakespearean and petrarchan sonnets have different ____________s.

the relation between the teller of the story and the characters in it