1 Iambic
Anapestic
Trochaic
Dactylic
Spondaic
Pyrrhic
Foot
Meter
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Consisting of three syllables, with two unaccented
syllables followed by an accented one
Also: dactyl
Also: iambus
A foot consisting of an unaccented syllable and an
accented; the most common rhythm in English verse
Also: trochee
A foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by
two unaccented, as in mannikin
A foot consisting of an accented and an unaccented
syllable, as in the word happy; generally unpopular and
rare for sustained writing
A foot of two unaccented syllables; unavoidable in
English
Also: spondee
A foot composed of two accented syllables; rare in
English
The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern, or
the rhythm established by the regular occurrence of
similar units of sound
See: qualitative, accentual, syllabic, accentual-syllabic
The unit of rhythm in verse, whether quantitative or
accentual-syllabic
See: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee
The | separates the feet
3 Alice Walker
Thorton Wilder
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
William Carlos Williams
Arthur Miller
Jonathan Swift
Knickerbocker Group
4 Playwright and novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner for
drama (1938) and fiction (1928)
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Our Town (1938)
Bridge of San Luis Ray (1928)
American author and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize
for Literature
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Beloved (1993)
Sula
Song of Solomon
The Bluest Eye
Tar Baby
The Death of a Salesman (1949)
The Crucible
A New York literacy crowd flourishing during the
first half of the 19th century whose principal members
include:
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Washington Irving
William Cullen Bryant
James Fenimore Cooper
The Color Purple (1938)
19th century American author
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Winner of 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama;
commentator on the 1950s Red Scare and
Congressional House Un-American Activities
Committee
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American author known for her 1938 Pulitzer Prize
winner for fiction and recent affiliation with the
Occupy Movement (2010)
Moby Dick
Omoo
Typee
Mardi
Redburn
His First Voyage
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
American pediatrician and general practitioner who
received the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Pictures from Brueghel
18th century Irish author
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A Tale of the Tub
Gulliver’s Travels
“A Modest Proposal”
5 Anaphora
Penny Dreadful
Flat Character
Dime Novel
Round Character
Manga
Static Character
Dynamic Character
6 One of the devices of repetition, in which the same
expression (word or words) is repeated at the
beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
Cheaply produced paperbound novel or novelette of
mystery, adventure, or violence popular in the late
19th century and early 20th century in England
Five years have passed;
Five summers, with the length of
Five long winters! and again I hear these
waters...
Cheaply printed, paperbound tale of adventure or
detection, originally selling for 10 cents
E. M. Forster’s (A Passage to India) term for a
character constructed around a single idea or quality;
immediately recognizable and can usually be
represented by a single sentence
A comic book or graphic novel, originally Japanese,
that, since the early 1950s, presents in book form a
story of fantasy, science fiction, or romance
A term used by E.M. Forster (A Passage to India) for a
character sufficiently complex to be able to surprise
the reader without losing credibility
A character who develops or changes as a result of
the actions of the plot
A character who changes little if at all; things happen
to static characters without modifying their interior
selves