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Lit terms midterm
Lit terms midterm http://englischlehrer.de/texts/prose_types.php
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhetorical | Nonreal |
| Literal | Real |
| Personification | Giving a nonliving object living features |
| Hyperbole | Exageration |
| Simile | A comparison using "Like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | A comparison using indirect references |
| Extended Metaphor | When an author exploits a certain metaphor through multiple references of such metaphor using key peices of info from the comparison |
| Tone | the general character of the book as an indicator of the attitude or view of the person who produced it |
| Mood | How a peice of literature makes someone feel |
| Satire | Literary words poking fun at society |
| Diction | Author's choice of words |
| Visual Imagery | Using descriptive words to discribe literary enviroronments and places |
| Sensory Imagery | Using descriptive words to discribe what a character feels, tastes, and hears both physically and psychologically |
| Alliteration | Repitition of words that sound like or begin with the same first letters |
| Syntax | The arrangement of words to portray a certain idea |
| Narrative | A explaination of what's happening in a story, given by the Narrator. |
| Expository | The opening info in a story |
| Prose | Normal sort of writing or speach void of Poetical rhythem or structure |
| Narrative Prose | A Type of prose that's main purpose is to discribe all relevent information such as events and characters- as well as keep the reader's interest and curiosity |
| Structure | Framework of a work of literature; the organization or over-all design of a work: chapters, acts, series. |
| Parallel structure | A pattern is within a group of sentences |
| form | The numbers that reflect the rhyme scheme and pattern of each line in a poem; some poems' form is defined physically by it's shape sometimes resembling the subject of the poem. |
| First Person Point of Veiw | The "I" and "Me" Point of view |
| Second Person Point of Veiw | Talking to a person using "You" Point of view |
| Third Person Point of Veiw | The all-knowing Point of view |
| Speaker | The voice in the poem or narrator of the story |
| Perspective | A synonym for viewpoint |
| Connotation | Second meanings to a word |
| Denotation | Literal meaning of a word |
| Style | The unique way in which an author tells a story |
| Verbal Irony | Writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different |
| Situational Irony | Writer shows a discrepancy between expected results of some action or situation -and it's actual result |
| Dramatic Irony | Reader/ Audience perceives something that a character in the story doesn't know. |
| Allusion | A reference to an outside event or object, either past or present. |
| Argumentative | A type of writing used to fight for, persuade, or defend a certain clause, event, and or subject |
| Understatement | Statements that lessen the point |
| Paradox | A proposition or statement that although seems legitimate, its result seems logically unacceptable, or self contradictory |
| Selection of Detail | When the writer uses certain words to create a picture. |
| meter | A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns called feet |
| Rhythm | A repeated regular beat or pattern |
| Rhyme Scheme | A pattern of rhyming that makes a poem organized |
| Internal Rhyme | A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. |
| Euphemisms | A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing |
| Abstraction | The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events |
| Elegy (elegiac) | A sad mournful or plaintive poem especially a funeral song |
| Epigram | A short satirical poem dealing concisely with one subject usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought |
| Confidante | a person whom private matters are confined in |
| Puns | A joke exploiting several meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound similar to that word |
| Oxymoron | A series of words that contradict each other in the same sentence. |
| Antecedent | A thing or event that preceded another |
| Apostrophe | A punctuation mark used to represent possession or to combine two words |
| Discriptive Prose | A type of prose that's purpose is to describe and to give an accurate and intriguing profile of a certain character or object. |
| Didactic Prose | A type of Prose that intends to influence it's reader's way of thinking |
| Discursive Prose | A type of prose that reveals the author's opinion on a subject. |
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