SEMESTER 2 LITERARY TERMS

4. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the story was told by the narrator in one of these.
7. A 14-line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter, with 3 quatrains and a couplet.
8. When Mercutio says, “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”.
10. A group of lines, usually similar in length and pattern, that form a unit within a poem.
11. A writer’s central idea or main message about life.
12. a speech in a play in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts directly to the audience (Friar Lawrence, picking flowers/weeds).
13. Five feet (or units) of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
19. A writer’s attitude towards the subject.
21. The literal meaning of a word.
22. The nurse serves as this in Romeo and Juliet.

1. When Romeo calls Juliet "bright angel" during the balcony scene.
2. The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (pop, fizz, click, zoom).
3. The opposite of poetry; ordinary written or spoken language using sentences and paragraphs.
5. Phrases such as "heavy lightness" or "beautiful tyrant".
6. The way in which words are put together to make meaningful elements, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
9. When Romeo says “My mind misgives/Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/Shall bitterly begin his fearful date.../By some vile forfeit of untimely death."
10. Weeds and flowers in Julio Polanco’s poem, “Identity” are examples of this.
14. The associations and emotional overtones attached to a word beyond its literal meaning.
15. A metaphor developed over several lines or throughout an entire poem.
16. A brief remark from a character to the audience, unheard by other characters on stage.
17. The restatement of an author's idea in different words.
18. A lengthy speech addressed to other characters not to the audience (Mercutio's Queen Mab speech).
20. The line, “and Momma’s in the bedroom/with the door closed” repeated at the end of every stanza in the poem, "Hanging Fire".