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Lit. Analysis Lexico
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| theme | idea or point of a story |
| static character | a character who remains the same |
| explicit judgement | narrator gives facts and interpretive comment |
| implied judgment | narrator gives desc, reader make judgment |
| objective POV | narrator a detached observer, reports on event |
| omniscient POV | all knowing character |
| style | the verbal identity of an author |
| irony | a role that states the opposite of what is expressed |
| dramatic irony | when character knows something that a character does not |
| situational irony | contrast bw what a reader or character expects and what actually happens |
| hyperbole | exxageration |
| litotes | intensifies an idea by understatement |
| allusion | a brief and indirect reference |
| connotation | the implied meaning of a word |
| denotation | dictionary def of word |
| synecdoche | a part is substituted for a whole |
| metonymy | designation of one thing w/ something closely associated with it |
| oxymoron | contradiction |
| paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but has some truth |
| juxtaposition | two or more ideas/places/characters and their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of dev. comparisons |
| apostrophe | a turning away, addressing someone new |
| euphemism | substitute less pungent words for harsh one, for ironic effect |
| asyndenton | conjunctions are omitted--> fast pace prose |
| polysyndenton | the use of many conjunctions, slows pace |
| rhythm and meter | the pulse or beat in a line of poetry, the recurrence of an accent or stress. measure or patterned count of a poetry line |
| pentameter | a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet (iambic w/ 10 stressed) |
| blank verse | un rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| couplet | two lines that rhyme and have the same meter |
| caesura | a break or pause near the middle of a line |
| structure | the pattern of organization of a poem |
| free verse | open form |
| quatrain | a type of stanza...consists of 4 linees |
| tercet | 3 lines of poetry |
| slant rhyme | a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, preceding vowel sounds do not match |
| syntax | sentence structure and word order. |
| enjambment | run on sentence |
| synesthesia | a figurative use of words that blends and stimulates multiple senses at once |
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