TERM IDENTIFICATION FOR MIDTERM

Please be able to define each term and give an example from either Byron's poetry, Wuthering Heights, or Jane Eyre

1.    Metaphor:  an analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second. does not use "like" or "as."

2.    Simile:  a similarity between two essentially different objects is expressed using "like" or "as."

3.    Analogy:  a comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects; where something unfamiliar is explained by being compared to something more familiar.

4.    Gothic:  in literature, whatever is medieval, natural, primitive, wild ,free, authentic, romantic.  Specifically in novels, the gothic suggests magic, mystery, chivalry, and may include horrors such as ghosts, castles, and clanking chains, and graveyards.

5.    Romanticism:  began in 1798, and is a reaction against  neo-classical order and restraint; its themes include the supernatural, the wildness of nature, the primacy of the imagination, and self-expression.

6.    Symbol:  an image that stands in itself and also stands for something else.  combines a literal sense with an abstract suggestive aspect.

7.    Foil:  in literature the term is applied to any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another.

8.    Satire:  a work that blends a critical attitude with humor and wit for improving human institutions or humanity.

9.    Point of View:  vantage point from which author tells the story.  For example, first person narrator uses I and tells the story as he or she experienced it; a third person narrator uses he, she, or they to tell the story and does not participate in the action.

10.    Foreshadowing:  the introduction early in a story of verbal or dramatic hints that suggests what is to come.