Early American Literature Terms – Flashcards
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Aliteration
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a series of words using the same beginning letters
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Consonance
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Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.
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Assonance
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Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity
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Ambuguity
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Open to more than one interpretation
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Symbol
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The Scarlet Letter was a symbol
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Satire
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The use of rhetorical devices to criticize, ridicule, or otherwise point out vices and stupidity in others
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Alchemy
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The science of turning objects into gold
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Liminal
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Between two things (the prison door)
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Careerist
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Two types: Coercive (force) and projection (fear). Dimsdale, and Millington
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Prosody
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Study of Versification
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Paradox
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A seeming contradiction
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Trope
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A general term for figurative language
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Metonymy
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"The white house reported.."
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Synecdoce
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"Nice set of wheels"
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Simile
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A comparison of two things using like or as
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Metaphor
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comparing two like themed ideas
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Verbal Irony
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Sarcasm
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Dramatic Irony
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When the audience knows something that the character does not within the story.
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Epiphany
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A sudden realization
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Mood
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Emotional atmosphere of the scene
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Ceasura
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A pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
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Enjambment
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A run on line of poetry, it has no punctuation at the end of it.
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Lord of Misrule
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Head of celebrations at the 12 days of christmas
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Immediate Revelation
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The holy spirit talking directly to Ann Hutchinson
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Spectral Evidence
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Using visions as a means of evidence to prove witchcraft
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Sermon (and type)
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A poem of 5 types: topical, biographical, evangelical, redemptive historical, and expository.
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In Medias Res
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"In the midst of things", to tell a story starting from the middle, rather than the beginning.
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Protagonist
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The hero of the story
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Antagonist
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The anti-hero, or villain of the story
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Foil
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Illuminates the main character by way of contrast
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Plot
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a sequence of events
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Scansion
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Scanning poem to determine rhythm
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Hyperbole
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Exaggerated statements
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Oxymoron
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Contradicting words ("It's freezing hot outside")
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Versimiltude
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The appearance of being true
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Personification
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Giving humanistic or animistic characteristics to a non living thing.
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Allegory
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A story that works on more than one level
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Archetypes
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recurrent narrative designs
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Pun
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Play on words
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Concrete Language
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Literal language concerning the 5 senses.
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Abstract Language
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Figurative language on the subject of ideas
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Sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameter, 10 syllables each line
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Psychomachia
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The good and bad aspects of ones conscious (Loony Toons, the devil and the angel on their shoulders)
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Psychonym
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A name that suggests meaning (chillingworth, pear, etc)
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Cuckold
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The husband of an adulterous wife
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Reprobation
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Opposite of Elect, damnation to hell.
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Two Types of Careerist
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Coercion and Projectionist.
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The Novel
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long work of fiction
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Elect
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To be chosen by god to be one of heaven
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Predestination
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God already predetermines everything, fate as set by god
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Antinomian
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Lawlessness
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Unified Sensibility
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Unification of thought and feeling
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Jeremiad
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Show a tragic situation to be just penalties for sin. A zealous outcry to reform before it is too late
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Chiaroscuro
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Dark and light aspects of something; contrast
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T.U.L.I.P.
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1: Total Depravity 2: Unconditional Election 3: Limited Atonement 4: Irresistible Grace 5: Perseverance of the Saints
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Parts of Sermon
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4 types: Literal Historical (bible as history), Anagogical (relation of event to Eternal matters), Allegorical (working on more than 1 level) and Moral (meaning in the listeners life).
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Anti theme
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Before the theme of the sermon, the statement of biblical text
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Reprobate
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someone going to hell
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John Edwards
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Arch Calvinist - strict religion
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Dilation
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The opening up of the text
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Monometer
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One foot
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Diameter
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Two feet
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Trimeter
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Three feet
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Tetrameter
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Four feet
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Pentameter
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Five feet
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Hexameter
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Six feet
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Heptameter
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Seven feet (fourteener)
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Octameter
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Eight Feet
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Alexandrine
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A line in iambic hexamter
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Feminine ending
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the last syllable of the line is unstressed
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Masculine ending
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last syllable of the line is stressed
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Feminine Rhyme
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(able/fable)
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Masculine Rhyme
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(stay/away)
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Degree of accent
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Heavy (primary), Medium (secondary), light (tertiary), or Unaccented
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Rising meter
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Unstressed Syllable first
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Falling meter
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Stressed syllable first
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Roger Williams fled to..
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Rhode Island
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According to the Prefatory Section on him, Williams..
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Arbella
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In his tract "The Bloody Tenet of Persecution." Williams writes "in vain have the English Parliaments permitted...in the poorest houses"
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English Bibles
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Returned to the Dutch (by Native Americans) was..
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a cornfield
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What occurred when Mrs. Hutchinson and others "happened to be at prayer"?
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A bird crashed into a window
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Winthrop was/was not a separatist
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was not
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Winthrop decided to become a lawyer rather than a clergyman
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true
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As his ship sailed toward American Land, Winthrop sighted Maine
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True
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Hutchinson had a miscarriage
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True
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Hutchinson was executed by the colonists
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False
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Jonathan Edwards was born in
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East Windsor CT
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Edwards became "very reluctantly" the president of which college
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The College of New Jersey (Princeton)
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In this famous sermon, God uses a bow and arrow. Where does god aim the arrow
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The heart of the sinner
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Edwards was dismissed from his church in part because
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He named backsliders from the pulpit
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Edwards offers the hope of God's mercy at the end of the sermon
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true
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The rose bush in the Scarlet Letter represents
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The sainted Ann Hutchinson
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The novel is set in 17th century
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Boston
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This character is deformed
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Chillingworth
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Hester never takes off her scarlet letter
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False
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Four Parts of a Sermon
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1: Anti-Theme - Biblical text being cited 2: Divisio - explanation of biblical text and outside sources 3: Dilation - The opening up of the text using rhetorical methods. 4: Exegesis - Application of the sermond
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Demetrius's Four Styles
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Elevated Elegant Plain Forcible
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Two Types of Sonnets
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Italian or Petriarchic,
