Introduction to Literature
PART ONE.
1. epistolary novel
2. enjambment
3. Bildungsroman
4. portmanteau
5. lyric (in the context of poetry)
6. foot (in the context of poetry)
7. context
8. novel
9. volta
10. iambic pentameter
11. 1) Provide an example of a frame tale and 2) explain the framework.
12. Lyric poetry is named after the instrument traditionally used to accompany it. 1) What is this instrument? 2) What does it resemble?
13. 1) What is the oldest form of literature? 2) What is the newest (at least of those we have studied)?
14. The Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) sonnet is an altered form of an earlier type of sonnet. 1) What is this earlier form called? 2) How is it altered?
15. Anne Sexton was commonly associated with what group of poets?
16. Mary Shelley wrote her novel as a part of a contest. What piece of specific information served as her inspiration to tell her tale of horror?
17. What were some of the specific political and social conditions that Margaret Atwood was responding to in writing her novel The Handmaid’s Tale?
18. As a poet, Walt Whitman was associated with 1) which period/style of poetry? 2) What are some
