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Pavlat 11 Honors #1
Literary Terms, THE SCARLET LETTER
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Unity | (Goal of a Writer) All parts of a literary work functioning together for a single purpose or effect; a sense of harmony or oneness; the sense that there is nothing extra and nothing missing. |
| Verisimilitude | (Goal of a Writer) The false sense of reality in a work of fiction. |
| Allusion | (Stylistic Device) A reference to an outside character or event for a purpose. |
| Biblical allusion | (Stylistic Device) A reference to a character, place, event, or statement from the Bible. |
| Classical allusion | (Stylistic Device) A reference to a character, place, event, or statement from Greco-Roman mythology or history. |
| Charactonym | (Stylistic Device) When the name of a character symbolizes something about his/her personality, situation, or background. |
| Contrast | (Stylistic Device) Showing differences between people/things/situations. |
| Dichotomy | (Stylistic Device) Separation into opposites or opposite groups. |
| Duality | (Stylistic Device) The same as dichotomy, but this term could also refer to a single thing with paradoxical elements or an internal division. |
| Paradox | (Stylistic Device) A self-contradiction that, upon reflection, may reveal a deeper meaning. |
| The Enlightenment | (Other) A philosophical movement starting in the West in the 1700s, rejecting the supernatural and teaching that the power of human intellect would ultimately solve every mystery and eliminate every problem. |
| Romanticism | (Other) An intellectual movement beginning in the West in the early 1800s. Their literature embraced mystery, portrayed emotion as superior to intellect, depicted exaggerated personalities and situations, and focused on the beauty of nature. |