Portrait of the Artist Parts 1 & 2

In the comment box below, please identify a passage in A Portrait parts 1& 2 and use your skills at explication to read deeply into what is going on in the passage.  What motifs do you notice?  Words?  Themes and complexities that are being explored?  What is the tone like compared to the rest of the novel?  Treat the passage as a classic Question 2.

Literary Terms for Midterm

Midyear Exam Literary Terms

Midyear Exam Literary Vocabulary

Sonnets & Poetry (21)

English (Shakespearean) Sonnet, Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet, Iambic Pentameter, Meter, Iamb, Rhyme Scheme, Volta, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Stanza, Octet, Sestet, Quatrain, Couplet, Enjambment, End rhyme, Full rhyme, Near/Off/Half/Slant Rhyme, Sonnet Sequence/Sonnet Cycle/Corona/Crown of Sonnets, Blank Verse

Other Types of Poems (5)

free verse, villanelle, sestina, terza rima, ballads

Other Poetic Techniques (3)

anaphora, epistrophe, inversion

Figurative Language (16)

figurative language, simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, apostrophe, conceit, hyperbole, pun, double entendre, rhetorical question (=erotema), oxymoron, paradox, synesthesia, denotation, connotation

Irony (4)

irony, verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony

Narration (5)

narration, first person narration, third person limited narration, third person omniscient narration, stream of consciousness

Writing Style (9)

style, voice, diction, syntax, tone, mood, dialect, colloquialism, vernacular

Character (13)

characterization, direct characterization, indirect characterization, dynamic character, static character, round character, flat character, foil, protagonist, antagonist, tragic hero, antihero

Plot & Events (10)

Plot, exposition, inciting action, rising action, climax, denouement (resolution), flashback, foreshadowing, internal conflict, external conflict,

Other Literary Terms from First Semester (4)

motif, symbol, epigraph, epiphany