The following is a list of terms I’ve been collecting that we’ve spoken about in class.
You of the poem
Profile of the poem
Metaphor
Simile
Me of the poem (Speaker of the poem)
Third person (omniscient, third-close)
Unpacking
Close reading
Uppertens
Knickerbocker
Petite bourgeios
Bourgeious
Boosting
Anaphora
Stakes
Modernism
Victorian Era (England’s Queen, novels, art, manners)
Alliteration
Paraphrasing
Ellipses
Epigraph
Nativist
Window
Sensationalism
Flaneur
Queen Victoria
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Epic Poem
Composition
Palette
Reader Response
Structure
Theme
Plot device
Literary motif
Epistolary Tale
Any I’ve forgotten? Comment!
