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| 2482904625 | pilgrimage | an act of spiritual devotion or penance in which an individual travels without material comforts to a distant holy place (Ex. Pilgrim's Progress or Canterbury Tales) | 0 | |
| 2482969039 | agrarian idealism | conviction that farming is an especially virtuous occupation in comparison with trade, craftsmanship, manufacturing, etc.; manifested strong in Romantic writings as one form of the American Dream motif (Ex. Virgil's Eclogues, Jefferson's Queries) | 1 | |
| 2482981664 | problem play | any play in which the main character faces a personal, social, political, environmental, or religious problem common to his society (Ex. Death of a Salesman: challenges of false values in a capitalistic society) | 2 | |
| 2483120822 | revenge play | Renaissance genre of drama; hero attempts to avenge a previous wrong by killing the perpetrator of the deed, commonly with a great deal of bloodshed and incidental violence (Ex. Hamlet) | 3 | |
| 2483127812 | roman à clef | (roman uh clay) narrative that represents actual historical characters and events in the form of fiction; real figures have fictitious names (Ex. Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises) | 4 | |
| 2489063310 | identical rhyme | use of the same words as a "rhymed" pair; adds emphasis to a poetic passage (Ex. Keats's Isabella: "All close they met again, before the dusk / Had taken from the stars its pleasant veil, / All close they met, all eyes, before the dusk / Had taken from the stars its pleasant veil, / Close in a bower of hyacinth and musk,/ Unknown of any, free from whispering tale") | 5 | |
| 2489075569 | eye rhyme | words that seem to rhyme when written down because their parts are spelled similarly but are pronounced differently in modern English (Ex. Andrew Marvell: "Thy beauty shall no more be found, / Nor in thy marble vault shall sound / My echoing love song. Then worms shall try / That long-preserved virginity") | 6 | |
| 2489109362 | internal audience | an imaginary listener or audience to whom a character speaks in a poem or story; might be the reader or another unnamed character (Ex. T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": "Let us go then, you and I...") | 7 | |
| 2489121980 | multicultural novel | novel written by a member of or about a cultural minority group, giving insight into non-Western or non-dominant cultural experiences and values, either in the United States or abroad (Ex. Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, etc.) | 8 | |
| 2490176277 | mythology | system of stories that help explain how the world works, customs and observances, rituals for sacred ceremonies, and life after death; once believed literally by ancestors but usually not believed by their descendants (Ex. Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid) | 9 |
