Technical Definitions:  You are expected to know all of the following terms at different points in the semester.  You will be asked about them on a variety of assessments and to use the terms appropriately while writing about our readings.

Unit One -- The First of the Modern Poets -- Dickinson and Whitman

Look up and memorize the literary terms and examples of these terms during the first two weeks of the semester.  Expect these terms to be on a quiz focused on these definitions and examples as well as on periodic objective tests during the semester.

Some Terms for Talking about Literature

Accent
Alliteration
Alliterative long line
Assonance
Blank Verse
Catalog
Connotation
Consonance
Metaphor
Couplet
Meter
Denotation



Diction
Enjambment
Fasicle
Figure of speech
Foot
Fouteener
Free verse
Hyperbole                  
Iambic pentameter
Image
Paradox
Persona/Personae
Oxymoron
Litote/Understatement
Lyric
Quatrain
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Pun
Simile
Slant Rhyme-
Stanza
Symbol
Syntax/Syntactical
Theme
Tone
Irony
 

Unit Two -- Gothic Romance
Romantic Pure Allegory vs. Ambiguous Allegory


Sympathy [Hawthorne] Gothic Romance

Romantic


Unit Three -- Slave Narratives

Quadroon
Mulatto
Manumission
Stockholm's Syndrome Religious metaphor and simile in the service of Politics

Parallelism and Repeated sentence structure

Apostrophe

Unit Four -- Preachers

The Doctrine of Self-Interest Rightly

Understood
City Upon a Hill

Doctrine of election

Separatist

Dissenter

emblem vs symbol

Four Theories on the causes of the Salem Hysteria

Deist

Empiricism

Enlightenment  

Metaphysics/Metaphysician

Calvinist Principles

Armenianism

New Covenant of Grace

Etiological

Folklore

Animism

Orature

Scatological

Matriarchy/Patriarchy


Unit Five -- Exploring and Settling the New World: Cultural Clashes
Polemical Expose

Repartimiento/
Encomienda
Other
Monolithic
Co-opt
Providence

Typology