hyperbole

a.  a term to describe a piece of writing whose purpose is to instruct

naturalism

b.  a long poem mourning the death of an individual or a poem on a somber theme

rhetoric

c.  growth of Afro-American arts and literature in Harlem after WWI (Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston)

scansion

d.  literary movement of late 19^th century, emphasizing extreme realism

elegy

e.  group of American writers during the 50’s and 60’s who sought to express their alienation from society through their art (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg)

anachronism

f.  an attempt to get at the “primal truth” of a text

beat generation

g.  the analysis of poetic meter

Harlem Renaissance

h.  something placed in the wrong time period (such as the clock in Julius Caesar)

theatre of the Absurd

i.  any type of effective use of language, especially designed to persuade

synecdoche

j.  style of drama after WWII based on Existentialism (Beckett, Pinter)

epigraph

k.  exaggeration

epithet

l.  excessive pride

didactic

m.  a part to represent the whole (“wheels” to mean car; “smokes” for cigarettes)

heroic couplet

n.  an adjective added to the name of a person or thing to describe it (“Ivan the Terrible”)

blank verse

o.  a pair of rhyming lines of equal length

couplet

p.  any rhymed pair of lines in iambic pentameter

deconstructionism

q.  unrhymed iambic pentameter

epigram

r.  short, witty statement, often sarcastic

hubris

s.  short quotation at the beginning of a work to indicate its theme