Big Ideas Semester I

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Big Ideas Semester I

• Reviewing literary terms

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literary term identification

• a piece of literature with one or two levels of
  meaningcharacters, events, and objects may be
  interpreted at a symbolic level

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literary term identification

• the process by which the writer reveals the
  personality of a character the creation of the
  character

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literary term identification

• a character who highlights or brings out the
  personality traits of another character

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literary term identification

• a contradiction between what a character thinks
  and knows and what the reader or audience knows
  to be true

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literary term identification

• highly musical verse that expresses the
  observations and feeling of the speaker

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literary term identification

• a conversation between characters

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literary term identification

• a subdivision in a long poem, similar to a
  chapter in a book

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literary term identification

• a character who changes and grows the character
  learns

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literary term identification

• a metaphor that is developed over several lines
  of writing or even through an entire poem

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literary term identification

• the introduction to a play, poem, or novel

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literary term identification

• a complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on a
  serious subject

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literary term identification

• a ballad

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literary term identification

• an extreme exaggeration

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literary term identification

• a story within a story

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literary term identification

• a speech given by a characterthere are other
  people on stage

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literary term identification

• a figure of speech which creates a direct
  comparison

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literary term identification

• a character who stays the same there is no
  growth or learning

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literary term identification

• an apparent contradiction that is actually true

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literary term identification

• time and place of the action

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literary term identification

• notes included in a play to describe how the work
  is to be performed and staged

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literary term identification

• the series of related events that make up a
  narrative, such as a story, novel, or epic

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literary term identification

• a person, place, thing, or event that stands both
  for itself and for something beyond itself
  something that has greater meaning

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literary term identification

• everyday language

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literary term identification

• the attitude the writer takes toward the reader,
  a subject, or a character

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literary term identification

• a word or phrase used the characterize or
  describe a person or thingit renames the person
  or thing

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literary term identification

• a struggle or clash between opposing characters,
  forces, or emotions

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literary term identification

• a word or phrase that creates pictures in the mind

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literary term identification

• an elaborate comparison (carried out in several
  lines of poetry) of unlike subjects

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literary term identification

• a deliberate contrast between apparent and
  intended meaning

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literary term identification

• unrhymed iambic pentameter

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literary term identification

• a comparison using like or as

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literary term identification

• the lesson learned about life

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literary term identification

• a long speech in which a character shares
  personal thoughts character is alone on stage or
  thinks she/he is alone

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literary term identification

• this character has high social standing, a tragic
  flaw, and suffers a downfall

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literary term identification

• hints that indicate the outcome of events

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literary term identification

• depicts the downfall of a hero in conflict with
  forces beyond his/her control

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literary term identification

• a character who is brave, courageous, exhibits
  mental and physical prowess, and shows reverence
  for the gods or God

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literary term identification

• a long narrative poem that tells about the
  adventures of a hero

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literary term identification

• a reference to a well-known person, place, event,
  work of literature, artwork, etc.

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literary term identification

• poetry consisting of ten syllables per line
  unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
  syllable contains end rhymes

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literary term identification

• giving human qualities to inanimate objects

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literary term application

• Dawn came with ringlets shining

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literary term application

• Friar Lawrences speech discussing plantsthey
  can be healthful and cause death.

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literary term application

• In a smithy
• one sees a white-hot axhead or an adze
• plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching
  steam
• the way they make soft iron hale and hard--
• just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.

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literary term application

• raider of cities

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literary term application

• death sat there huge

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literary term application

• we heard the rock bellowing all around

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literary term application

• Juliet looking down at Romeo from her balcony and
  commenting that Romeo looks like he is a grave.

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literary term application

• the sweet scent hovered like a fume

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literary term application

• the sea was like a cauldron

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literary term application

• Catullus poems are this

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literary term application

• Chevrefoil is considered this type of poetry

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literary term application

• Horace wrote these

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literary term application

• Odyssey

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literary term application

• The nurse and Juliet function as this, as do
  Benvolio and Mercutio

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literary term application

• character type the knight in The Wife of
  Baths Tale

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literary term application

• most of Romeo and Juliet is written in this

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literary term application

• The Divine Comedy is this (I know it is an epic
  poem!)

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literary term application

• The Divine Comedy is this (I know it is an epic
  poem!)

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literary term application

• Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, / Nor
  plagues that haunt the rich mans door

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literary term application

• I Love and I Hate (remember this is an
  application question

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literary term application

• Prince Escalus speech to the Capulets and
  Montagues after the fight in the town square

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literary term application

• the comparison of Tristan and Iseults love to
  the honeysuckle and hazel tree

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literary term application

• Odysseus, Dante, and Roland

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literary term application

• Enter Juliet alone

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literary term application

• Roland offering his glove to heaven, Satans
  three faces, Dante beginning his journey on Good
  Friday and ending it on Easter Sunday

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literary term application

• Muslims vs. Christians
• Capulets vs. Montagues
• the knight seeking what women really want

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literary term application

• Two households, both alike in dignity,
• In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
• From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
• Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

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literary term application

• Romeo believes his wife to be dead, but Friar
  Lawrence, and the audience know differently

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literary term application

• The Canterbury Tales is a fine example of this
  story type

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literary term application

• The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tale were
  written in this

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literary term application

• character type the old hag in The Wife of
  Baths Tale

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literary term application

• Romeo Montague