Terms : Hide Images
| 12174551007 | structuralism | language not only conveys concepts, it colors or mediates them; therefore, truth is distorted through language | 0 | |
| 12174576536 | deconstructionism | because language distorts truth, there is no truth, and any authoritative claims to truth are inherently suspect | 1 | |
| 12174606384 | new historicism | looks at literature from the perspective of the minority; literature can be the propaganda of the oppressive majority culture | 2 | |
| 12174635693 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in phrase | 3 | |
| 12174640101 | kenning | a metaphorical compound word or phrase substituted for a noun | 4 | |
| 12174646610 | caesura | a pause dividing each line of poetry | 5 | |
| 12174679375 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 6 | |
| 12174683206 | imagery | words or phrases that create sensory experiences | 7 | |
| 12174699020 | Hrothgar | in Beowulf, the Danish king whose mead hall is being invaded by a monster | 8 | |
| 12174789693 | Grendel | in Beowulf, the monster | 9 | |
| 12174793879 | Beowulf | in Beowulf, the Geatish hero who comes to rescue Hrothgar | 10 | |
| 12174798982 | Wiglaf | in Beowulf, the young Geatish warrior who stands by the aged Beowulf | 11 | |
| 12174829998 | Knight | in The Canterbury Tales, a model of chivalry and courtesy, a good soldier | 12 | |
| 12174846790 | Monk | in The Canterbury Tales, wears fur, eats swan and loves to hunt | 13 | |
| 12174854053 | Wife of Bath | in The Canterbury Tales, has had five husbands and has been on many pilgrimages | 14 | |
| 12174880867 | Pardoner | in The Canterbury Tales, has flaxen hair, a girl in every town and loves gold | 15 | |
| 12174910053 | The Pardoner's Tale | the tale of three rioters looking for death | 16 | |
| 12174916060 | The Wife of Bath's Tale | the tale of the knight who must find what women want | 17 | |
| 12174923355 | pastoral poem | a type of lyric poetry that idealizes nature and rural life | 18 | |
| 12174928793 | lyric poem | poetry with musical qualities | 19 | |
| 12174956168 | sonnet | "little song" of 14 lines of iambic pentameter | 20 | |
| 12175005599 | quatrain | a grouping of four lines of poetry | 21 | |
| 12175048378 | couplet | two rhyming lines of poetry | 22 | |
| 12175072523 | English sonnet form | quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet | 23 | |
| 12175095032 | Italian sonnet form | octave (4+4) and sestet (3+3) | 24 | |
| 12175132059 | octave | a grouping of eight lines of poetry | 25 | |
| 12175136187 | Spenserian rhyme scheme | abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee | 26 | |
| 12175173475 | Shakespearean rhyme scheme | abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 27 | |
| 12175195343 | personification | giving human qualities to an inanimate object | 28 | |
| 12175205143 | simile | a comparison using 'like' or 'as' | 29 | |
| 12175211282 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 30 | |
| 12175241936 | metonymy | using a word that is closely associated with a subject instead of the subject (crown for monarchy or king) | 31 | |
| 12175280313 | synecdoche | using a part to represent the whole (May I have your hand in marriage?) | 32 |
