Thursday, October 9, 2008

Link to Western Wind Glossary

http://novella.mhhe.com/sites/0072819596/student_view0/glossary.html

STUDY GUIDE: EXAM #2

STUDY GUIDE: EXAM #2 ENG 220 INTRO. TO READING TEXTS

JENEY FALL 2008

Archetypal Image

Invective

Sentimentality

Connotation

Denotation

Clichés

“Less is More”

Diction

Vowel tonality

Assonance

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme

End rhyme

Internal rhyme

Off-rhyme

Consonance

Music

Elegy

Rhyme scheme

Rhythm

Repetition

Accent

Syllable stress

Scansion

Iambic foot

Iambic pentameter

  • Pyrrhic
  • Spondee
  • Trochee
  • Anapest (see p. 234)

Meter

End-stopped

Run-on

Enjambment

Caesura

Line length

  • Monometer
  • Dimeter
  • Trimester
  • Tetrameter
  • Pentameter
  • Hexameter
  • Heptameter
  • Octameter