11-4-15

block13

pre ap english honors 1

e terms

editorial omniscience - presents thought/actions of a character and comments on it.

p - to give readers the author’s opinion.

ex. the hemingway story

editorial point of view - different point of views.

p - to provide different point of views to a story.

ex. editorial omniscience

elegy - poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets.

p - to honor someone deceased.

ex. “in memory of W.B. Yeats

english sonnet - has 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet.

p - to develop a specific idea related to the other quatrains.

ex. king lear

enjambment - moving from one line to another (in poetry).

p - to move from one couplet to the next without a big pause.

ex. “I am not prone to weeping, as our sex

Commonly are; the want of which vain dew

Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have

That honorable grief lodged here which burns

Worse than tears drown….”

envoy - final verse of a poem.

p - to finalize the poem and make interest.

ex. “because i was on holiday”

epic - long narrative poem.

p - describe novels/show heroic deeds.

ex. ice castle

epigram - memorable, interesting, and brief statement.

p - used in poetry.

ex. Both robb’d of air, we both lie in one ground

Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown’d.

expressionism - modernist movement in poetry and painting.

p - to present the world from a different perspective.

ex. german expressionism

explication - process of making something clearer.

p - to help describe something.

ex. the road not taken

exposition - used to introduce background information.

p - introduce background info about events, settings, characters, etc.

ex. “he is a very respectable man.”

eye rhyme - words that are similar in spelling but are pronounced differently.

p - to help poetry.

ex. love and move

end rhyme - a line ending with words that sound the same.

p - to make a poem more entertaining.

ex. star light, star bright

episodic plot - chapters/stories linked together by characters/places separated from plots.

p - make sense of time in a story.

ex. goldilocks and the three bears

epistle - a letter.

p - to communicate.

ex. birthday card

epistolary novel - novel written as a series of documents.

p - to add realism.

ex. the white tiger

epistrophe - says the same word returns at the end of a sentence.

p - to indicate the same word will show up at the end of the sentence.

ex. “Where now? Who now? When now?”

etymology - the study of how words have changed throughout history.

p - to show how words have changed.

ex. thy - the

euphony - words or phrases that have a pleasant melody from the sounds they make.

p - to create melodic effects.

ex. As he, defeated, dying,

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Break, agonized and clear!

ellipsis - gets rid of some parts of the story.

p - to give readers a chance to guess what is happening or what has happened.

ex. “to the lighthouse”

epanalepsis - defined by a clause at the end of the sentence.

p - used to emphasize a key point or concept.