LITERARY TERMS 5Polysyndeton -Romance

polysyndeton◦Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series.

◦X and Y and Z

PROTAGONIST◦ THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN A STORY, THE ONE WHO INITIATES OR DRIVES THE

ACTION; HERO OR THE ANTI-HERO◦GUESS WHO?

Others that you’ve met…

Harmartia◦Tragic flaw

PUN◦A PLAY ON WORDS BASED ON THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF A SINGE WORD OR ON WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE BUT MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS.

PUN◦•I would like to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?

QUATRAIN◦A POEM CONSISTING OF FOUR LINES OR A 4-LINE STANZA

REFRAIN◦A WORD, PHRASE, LINE, OR GROUP OF LINES THAT IS REPEATED FOR EFFECT SEVERAL TIMES IN A POEM

BALLADS are sometimes written in quatrains. They also use refrains.◦ Please read the following ballads: “Lord Randall” - http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-bCT0OedQ◦ “Edward, Edward” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCkcYYQv3so

Assignment # 1◦Write a reader response on the ballads (one page minimum). You may comment

on theme, dialect, the singing of the ballad (its intended medium), etc. Please format according to MLA guidelines (must be typed). This assignment is due on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. I will grade your writing, so please edit and revise before submission. Thanks!

RHYTHM/ POETIC FEET◦The rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.◦Please visit the following site:◦https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/570/03/

Assignment 2◦Please answer the following; use the previously cited web page for information. You will find words that fit the specific patterns on the internet. You will be responsible for matching the name with the pattern on the literary terms exam. ◦Assignment due Friday, April 4, 2014.

1. Iambic◦ 1. Write the pattern.

◦ 2. Write two words that use the iambic pattern.

2. TROCHAIC◦Write the pattern:

◦Write two words using the trochaic pattern:

3. SPONDAIC◦1. Pattern:

◦2. Write two words:

4. ANAPESTIC◦ 1. WRITE THE PATTERN.

◦ 2. WRITE TWO WORDS USING THIS PATTERN.

5. DACTYLIC◦1. PATTERN:

◦2. TWO WORDS:

RHETORIC◦Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse

RHETORICAL QUESTION◦ A question asked for effect, and not actually requiring an answer

ROMANCE- popular in Middle Ages◦In general, a story in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest or a challenge

Romances involve◦Journeys or pilgrimages◦Use the peregrinatus (peregrinations) theme (theme that life is a pilgrimage and that we are all pilgrims

Additional characteristics:◦Involves magic

Involves a willing suspension of disbelief◦ http://www.princeton.edu/~

achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Suspension_of_disbelief.html◦ Read the definition and Coleridge’s Original Formulation- take notes. Due Friday,

April 4, 2014.

Romance◦Involves chivalry

In Romances…◦Women are held in high regard, put up on a pedestal

Romance◦Involve courtly love---

Involve unrequited love or lover’s triangle

Number symbolism- five◦Known as the five-knot or endless knot◦Image on the outside of Sir Gawain’s shield

Please read the first stanza from this excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

◦Notice all references to the number five. http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf984b/Text.htm

Number symbolism - three◦It saluted Bedivere three times and then sank beneath the surface…

Please read ◦“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales◦Find elements of a medieval romance in the story.◦Answer questions that accompany the story.◦Due Friday, April 4, 2014.