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English III AP
Archetype to Cosmic Irony
| Term/Definition | Example |
|---|---|
| In literature, an archetype is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. An archetype, also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting | The Hero: He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society e.g. Beowulf, Hercules, D’artagnan from “The Three Musketeers” etc. |
| Assonance-The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. Adjective: assonant. Assonance differs from rhyme in that rhyme usually involves both vowel and consonant sounds. | "A heart no bigger than an orange seed has ceased to beat." (James Salter, "Am Strande von Tanger." Collected Stories. Pan Macmillan, 2013) |
| Asyndeton- A rhetorical term for a writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (the opposite of polysyndeton). Adjective :asyndetic. | "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957) |
| Caricature-Visual art or descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates certain features of a subject to create a comic or absurd effect. | Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.Mr. Chadband moves softly and cumbrously, not unlike a bear who has been taught to walk upright. |
| Chiasmus- In rhetoric, a verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. Essentially the same as antimetabole. | "I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." (David Foster Wallace) |
| In literature, a conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist. | 1.Hamlet’s inner turmoil. 2.Atticus Finch vs Racism 3.Harry Potter vs Voldemort |
| Connotation refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. | “Politician” has a negative ______________ of wickedness and insincerity while “statesperson” implies sincerity. |
| Consonance refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter for instance. | “Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or gentile, I rank top percentile Many styles, more powerful than gamma rays My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays.” (The Fugees) |
| The idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations. Cosmic irony feeds on the notion that people cannot see the effects of their actions, and sometimes the outcome of a person’s actions may be out of their control. | At a ceremony celebrating the rehabilitation of seals after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, at an average cost of $80,000 per seal, two seals were released back into the wild only to be eaten within a minute by a killer whale. |
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