Quarter 2Emily Mauk

Literary Terms Projects

Alliteration• The commencement of two or more stressed

syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the author uses the "D" sound every time Mr. Hyde is mentioned. "...his appearance: something displeasing, something down-right detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked and yet a scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere"

• In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment the quote "The sunshine came through the window, between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains, and fell directly across this vase;..." is an example of alliteration using "F"

• In The Fall of the House of Usher the quote "A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence,..." uses "S"

Allusion • A passing of a casual reference; an incidental mention of

something, either directly or by implication.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this quote alludes to the strong friendship of Damon and Pythias they could have had. "would have estranged Damon and Pythias"

• In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment the line "while the brazen head of Hippocrates frowned" alludes to the old physician Hippocrates.

• In the story Young Goodman Brown the line "he had an an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and who would have not felt abashed at the governors table on in King Williams Court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither" is an allusion.

Archetype

• A reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of it's kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again.

• In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment the fountain of youth is a archetype of the supposedly real fountain of youth.

• In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll is a mad scientist which is an archetype of a real life mad scientist.

• Also in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll has multiple personalities

Mood/ Atmosphere• Mood is atmosphere created by the author or narrator's choice of

detail.

• Atmosphere is mood or feeling conveyed by the author's choice of language.

• In The Stage Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the mood is dark and suspicious.

• The atmosphere of Gensis seems formal by the narrator's choice of word. "Then the Lord God planted in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed."

• In Young Goodman Brown the mood is a feeling of betrayal. "with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that was wicked in his heart"

Tone• The perspective or attitude that the author adopts with

regards to a specific character, place or development. Tone can portray a variety of emotions ranging from grave to humorous.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the tone is shocking and sketchy "I saw Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him"

• In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment the tone comes from the narrator mocking the characters or being very ironic.

• The tone in The Fall of the House of Usher is deliberately calm, making this horrifying story more abnormal.

Asyndeton • Refers to a practice in literature whereby the author purposely

leaves out conjunctions in a sentence, while maintaining the grammatical accuracy of the phrase.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this is an example of Asyndeton "It turns me cold to think of this creature stealing like a thief to Harry's bedside; poor Harry, what a wakening"

• In The Fall of the House of Usher the line "Long-long-long many minutes, many hours, many days, I have heard it" is an example of Asyndeton.

• In the story Young Goodman Brown an example of Asyndeton is in the line "flashing forth, as it were, in a sheet of flame, the fiend worshipers were seen; the smile of welcome gleamed darkly on every visage."

Doppelgänger• Refers to a character in the story that is actually a counterfeit or a

copy of a real or genuine character.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll's doppelgänger. He only seems to appear when Dr. Jekyll is not around. Dr. Jekyll wished he could have a more wild side, so he created Mr. Hyde, who turned into all the bad things of Dr. Jekyll.

• In The Fall of the House of Usher Madeline is Roderick's doppelgänger. She is all his fears, but instead of Roderick's fears being inside of himself they are inside his twin sister Madeline.

• In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment the mirror and it's reflection of the old people's younger selfs are doppelgängers. This are copies of the old helpless people. The reflection is fooling them into seeing their younger selves.

Juxtaposition• The author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to

another. This is used to highlight contrast between the two different things being compared.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the Soho area of Victorian London is described in a negative way, compared to other areas. “... a district of some city in a nightmare.”

• In Young Goodman Brown Faith is juxtaposed with Goody Cloyse, the women who taught him his catechism. "What if a wretched old women do choose to go to the devil when I thought she was going to heaven: is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith and go after her?"

• In the story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment it compared and contrasts gray time and sunny youth. "They stood still and shivered; for it seemed as if gray time were calling them back from their sunny youth"

Oxymoron • Allows the author to use contradictory, contrasting concepts

placed together in a manner that actually ends up making sense in a strange, yet complex manner.

• In The Fall of the House of Usher "mad hilarity" is an oxymoron because madness is not humorous, but yet, in the story it makes sense.

• Again in The Fall of the House of Usher "sad jest" is an example of an oxymoron. A jest is something funny and sadness is not funny. Yet in the story it makes sense.

• From The Strange Case f Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde "voluntary bondage" means volunteering to be locked up. This is an example of an oxymoron.

Flashback Addition• A prior event inserted into the story.

• A flashback in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is in the very beginning of the story when Mr. Enfield is reflecting back to the story of Hyde trampling the young girl and telling it to Mr. Utterson. "Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground."

Foreshadowing Addition

• Hints that the set of the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hunt of something that is going to happen without revealing the story.

• In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when Mr. Hyde kills Carew and leaves half this cane and the check addressed to Mr. Utterson is foreshadowing. It foreshadows that Mr. Hyde truly is no good and his is a company to Jekyll somehow.

Imagery Addition

• Formation of mental images

• "The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained." Comes from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This line gives the reader an image of the door and how it was all beat up.

Setting Addition

• Where the story takes place.

• The setting of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is in London in the late nineteenth century.

Simile Addition

• Comparing two unlike things. Similes are marked by the words "like" or "as"

• "lamps glimmered like carbuncles" is an example of a simile from He Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Polysyndeton Addition

• Refers to the process of using conjunctions or connecting words frequently in a sentence, placed very close to one another.

• In the story Young Goodman Brown an example of polysyndeton is "When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable" because of the extensive use of "and" and "or".