https://padlet.com/eerik_haamer/7uq53eeaiok7 Made with a dash of wit en-us 2019-01-21 10:00:24 UTC 2019-01-22 04:58:58 UTC hello@padlet.com eerik_haamer https://padlet.com/eerik_haamer/7uq53eeaiok7/wish/322628577 Alliteration-a stylistic device where a number of words that occur closely have the same 1. consonant sound.
Ex: With bloody blameful blade he bravely broached his bloody boiling breast
Alliterative verse- early verse of the Germanic languages in which alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables, is a basic structural principle rather than an occasional embellishment
Epic- long, heroic, narrative poem that has a special status in the given country or in the world, universal or national relevance, a founding text
Kenning- a combination of two words to create an evocative and imaginative word
Ballad- a narrative poem that originally was set to music, first created in medieval France, and the word ballad comes from the French term chanson balladée, which means “dancing song.”
Romance of the Rose- a medieval French poem styled as an allegorical dream vision, it is a notable instance of courtly literature
Renaissance- cultural movement, that began in Italy on the 14th century, re-birth of European art and literature under the influence of classical models
Humanism- a belief that values human beings
Soliloquy - passage in drama in which character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while either alone upon the stage or with the other actors keeping silent.
Ex: Hamlets soliloquy
Types of drama: tragedy, comedy, drama
Tragedy - a drama or a literary work in which the main character suffers extreme sorrow.
Ex: "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
Comedy -  a dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
Ex: "A midsummer night's dream"
Drama - a prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story.
Sonnet- a poem of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter and has a specific scheme (Italian--abbaabbacdecde, english- ababcdcdefefgg)
Iambic pentameter- 10 syllables in every line, with a strong beat on every second syllable
Metaphor - a figure of speech that makes a hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share common characteristics
Ex: "black sheep of the family"
Simile - a figure of speech making a comparison, show similarities between two things, using words "like" or "os" - direct comparison.
Romanticism - a movement and a period in English literature during which poems, stories and novels related to romantic ideas created.
Ex: "Pride and prejudice"
The Grand Tour - a cultural tour of Europe formerly undertaken, especially in the 18th century, by a young man of the upper classes as a part of his education.
Philhellenism - a habit of friendship or support for the greeks
Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent
Personification- a figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes
Irony- a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words
Pun - a play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings, or by exploiting similar sounding words that have different meanings
volta- a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion
noble savage- a literary stock character who embodies the concept of the indigene, outsider, wild human, an "other" who has not been "corrupted" by civilization, and therefore symbolizes humanity's innate goodness
ode - a form of poetry such as sonnet or elegy, a literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy
Hyperbole- a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
Novel- a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book
Realism- a movement in art, which started in the mid-nineteenth century in France, and later spread to the entire world. Realism entered literature at almost at the same time. Its real objective was to root out what is called fantastic and romantic in literature and art, to insert what is real.
Assonance- repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words
Short story- a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

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