UCSB English 10 2024 Final Exam Keywords
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1. Diachronic: of a poem that explores themes of change, evolution, and the passage of time across different
historical periods
2. Confessional Poetry: characterized by the use of the first-person POV, autobiographical experiences, and
a focus on the personal life and psyche
3. Diegetic time: the percieved passage of time within the fictional world created by the poem (time experienced
by the characters)
4. Objective time: the concept of time as it is percieved objectively (linear measurable passage of time often
marked by events liek clocks, calendar dates, or natural cycles
5. Tone: the poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter interpreted by the reader. The
"mood" that is experienced when reading a poem
6. Interpellation: theory that describes how cultural ideas and ideologies are internalized and shape our
identities
7. Synchronic: concerned with events existing at a given point in time and ignoring historical antecedents
8. Lyric poetry: poetry spoken from a first-person perspective about personal experience; the primary form of
popular poetry in America today (sonnets)
9. Spots of time: particularly in Wordsworth works (experience, loss, and memory), specific and vivid moments
from the past that can help a person grow and learn something about life and loss
10. Dilation: expanding or enlarging a concept to emphasize its significance. Like Rankine does with Zidane in
Citizen
11. Verbal irony: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite to or markedly different from their literal
interpretation
12. Structural irony: when the perspective of an unreliable narrator/naive protagonist is different from the
reality of the situation
13. Situational irony: occurs when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what
actually happens
14. Dramatic irony: An audience is able to see the truths that the characters on stage can't see (like Oedipus or
horror films)
15. Bathos: an absurd anticlimax (usually used for satire or for making fun; juxtaposition)
16. Pastoral: a poem type that is known for exploring the relationship between humans and nature
17. Juxtaposition: to set two dissimilar things beside one another for the sake of contrast or to imply a relation
18. Ekphrasis: a literary description of art; always interpretive where it attends to specific features
19. End-stopped lines: a line in a poem that is followed by punctuation
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_etm5x0
1. Diachronic: of a poem that explores themes of change, evolution, and the passage of time across different
historical periods
2. Confessional Poetry: characterized by the use of the first-person POV, autobiographical experiences, and
a focus on the personal life and psyche
3. Diegetic time: the percieved passage of time within the fictional world created by the poem (time experienced
by the characters)
4. Objective time: the concept of time as it is percieved objectively (linear measurable passage of time often
marked by events liek clocks, calendar dates, or natural cycles
5. Tone: the poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter interpreted by the reader. The
"mood" that is experienced when reading a poem
6. Interpellation: theory that describes how cultural ideas and ideologies are internalized and shape our
identities
7. Synchronic: concerned with events existing at a given point in time and ignoring historical antecedents
8. Lyric poetry: poetry spoken from a first-person perspective about personal experience; the primary form of
popular poetry in America today (sonnets)
9. Spots of time: particularly in Wordsworth works (experience, loss, and memory), specific and vivid moments
from the past that can help a person grow and learn something about life and loss
10. Dilation: expanding or enlarging a concept to emphasize its significance. Like Rankine does with Zidane in
Citizen
11. Verbal irony: using words to convey a meaning that is opposite to or markedly different from their literal
interpretation
12. Structural irony: when the perspective of an unreliable narrator/naive protagonist is different from the
reality of the situation
13. Situational irony: occurs when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what
actually happens
14. Dramatic irony: An audience is able to see the truths that the characters on stage can't see (like Oedipus or
horror films)
15. Bathos: an absurd anticlimax (usually used for satire or for making fun; juxtaposition)
16. Pastoral: a poem type that is known for exploring the relationship between humans and nature
17. Juxtaposition: to set two dissimilar things beside one another for the sake of contrast or to imply a relation
18. Ekphrasis: a literary description of art; always interpretive where it attends to specific features
19. End-stopped lines: a line in a poem that is followed by punctuation
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