English Lit GAME!!

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<p>Hey guys, as a final study guide to review terms before the English Lit test tomorrow morning, let's play a quick game.</p>

<p>Name a literary term that you feel is important (whether it be types of poetry, structural terms, figurative language, etc...), and the next person responds by defining and/or giving an example of the term. Then they name another term and we keep the cycle going. The more people we have participating, the more terms we go through!</p>

<p>I'll start:</p>

<p>Conceit</p>

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<p>conceit: An ingenious or witty turn of phrase or thought</p>

<p>apostrophe</p>

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<p>an address to someone or something that cannot respond. Think statements like "O, death" etc..</p>

<p>chiasmus</p>

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<p>A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in “Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye”</p>

<p>umm.....</p>

<p>synecdoche</p>

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<p>synechdoche: Showing a part to represent the whole? i.e. The sword and the pen.</p>

<p>metonymy (what's the dif?)</p>

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<p>Oops, posted too late</p>

<p>Metonymy: one part defines the whole. Example: "fifty masts" means "fifty ships" </p>

<p>Mixed metaphor</p>

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<p>Forgive me if I'm wrong, small town girl, but isn't conceit an extended metaphor? That's what I've studied- for example, the use of compass hands in A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by Donne to represent 2 lovers....is this correct?</p>

<p>OmgItsCollege, I'm pretty sure that metonymy and synecdoche are mainly interchangeable. However, if distinction is necessary, Wikipedia tells me that, "...When the distinction is made, it is the following: when A is used to refer to B, it is a synecdoche if A is a part of B and a metonym if A is commonly associated with B but not a part of it."</p>

<p>Check it out: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Edit: Ack, didn't see Courtney's post; mixed metaphor involves using 2 common metaphors in conjunction and creating a confusing image.</p>

<p>Next one:syllogism</p>

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<p>I also thought that conceit referred to a "controlled" metaphor that pervaded a whole literary work.</p>

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<p>According to my AP Power Pack SparkCharts, a conceit is "an elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas."</p>

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<p>bob-...I also learned that a conceit was an extended metaphor using that same example....oh well</p>

<p>I think of syllogism as the transitive property of equality from geometry. if a=b and b=c then a=c.....is this at all correct?</p>

<p>fabliaux (sp?)</p>

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<p>Syllogism: an argument that consists of three pats: the first part (conclusion) is inferred from the other two parts.</p>

<p>Don't know what fabliaux is.</p>

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<p>Haha, I was just reading some grading commentary on the AP exam. One of the main qualms the readers had was people identifying all these sophosticated terms and devices, and yet they do not contribute to their essay's point whatsoever.</p>

<p>Oh and, caesura: a pause in the line of a poem.</p>

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<p>I'll continue the cycle by asking:</p>

<p>ambivalence (I don't know, it was on collegeboard's list of terms)</p>

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<p>a fabliaux is a humurous, comedic and often baudy tale from medival times. They usually ridicule the clergy or women.</p>

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<p>Fabliaux is a comic tale that's usually obscene; the most common example is the Miller's Tale in The Canterbury Tales.</p>

<p>I didn't know that ambivalence was a literary term...is is similar to the regular definition of conflicting emotions?</p>

<p>Juxtaposition</p>

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<p>does ambivalence have something to do two different feelings at once? </p>

<p>BTW, a fabliau is a comic tale in verse, such as The Miller's Tale in The Canterbury Tales. Found it here: <a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Terms/fabliau.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/fabliau.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>colloquialism</p>

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<p>Reply to bob's post:</p>

<p>Juxtaposition is a side-by-side comparison of two things (?)</p>

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<p>wow, this is like my english teacher's favorite word. I'm pretty sure everyone in our class is going to have it in one of their thesises. Its the placement of two ideas against a similar backdrop. Think placement for the purpose of compare and contrast.</p>

<p>enjambment</p>

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<p>ambivalence: The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea</p>

<p>(yes, all of us are right on conceit-- I checked my dictionary, and there's multiple meanings)</p>

<p>litote</p>

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<p>Colloquialism- imformal writing showing speaker's comfortable attitude towards his or her audience.</p>

<p>Enjambment- technique used in poetry to create impression of flowing urgency by ending clauses in the middle of lines rather than at the end.</p>

<p>Litotes- Stating that the opposite of something is wrong to emphasize the truth of the original concept (like using a double negative). "Not bad" implies good. </p>

<p>Antithesis</p>