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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anaphora | Series of repeated phrases |
| Absurd | Can't really be happening |
| Accent | Emphasis |
| -Wrenched | what the author wants you to notice |
| Discourse | Communication |
| Aesthetic Distance | separation of reader |
| Aestheticism | we read a story for its value |
| Anachrony | out of order |
| Anachronism | something that doesn't belong |
| Aporia | Not knowing, which way something will not |
| Sublime | when the author changes the way you think |
| Acrostic | poems or pro |
| Denouement | end of writing; not story |
| Objective correlative | author wants you to feel an emotion; but doesn’t tell you |
| Hypotic | Simple syntax |
| Paratactic | Complex syntax |
| Picaresque | hero of the story |
| Irony | not expected by reader |
| Tragic | audience knows, character doesn’t |
| Dramatic | at least 1 character doesn’t know |
| Verbal | sarcasm |
| Situational | opposite of what was intended |
| Anticlimax | you think the big thing is coming, but it’s not |
| Bathos | character thinks what they’re doing is really big |
| Paralipsis | the author will tell you he won’t tell you something but then he does |
| Occupatio | I’m much too busy to tell you, but then I do |
| Occultatio | I’m not going to tell you, then I do and don’t say why I did |
| Meiosis | understatement that adds up to over exaggerate |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration to make a point |
| Allegory | story with moral/meaning |
| Parable | nmust be told in reply to a quest |
| Fable | not true |
| Beast Fable | not true, told w/ animals |
| Exemplum | tells of archetype |
| Trope | literary device |
| Metaphor | “he is a pig” |
| Synecdoche | using part of something to describe the whole thing |
| Apostrophe | character is speaking to someone who isn’t there |
| Synesthesia | seeing one thing, feeling something else ex. Blood, sick |
| Dystopia | very undesirable place |
| Ubi sunt | attitude of a character that wishes things were better like the past |
| Agrarian | descriptive of a setting |
| Ontological | tiny detail |
| Anagnorisis | character reaches turning point |
| Quality | evaluation of beauty |
| Didactic | intended to teach |
| Antonomasia | describe a person or thing by another person or thing |
| Metonymy | using an object to refer to someone |
| Archetype | original or best example |
| Tone | authors opinion of the character |
| Mood | overall mood of the story |
| Diction | words you choose |
| Syntax | sentence structure |
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