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Lit Terms 1
Expresionism-?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Expressionism | a movement in the arts durring the early 20th century that emphasized subjective expression of the artist's inner experrences. Characterized by a distortion of reality and the use of stylization. |
| Fable | a brief stroy or tale, often with animal characters that speak and act like human being that teaches a lesson. |
| Falstaffian | after Shakespeare's comic character Sir John Falstaff. characterized by joviality and conviviality, corpulent and jolly. |
| Genre | broad category of literary compositio determined by several factors such as literary techniques, tone, content, themes, ect.ex: Epic, Tragedy, Comedy |
| Fantasy | extravagant and unrestrained, imagination. an action in literature wich occures in non-existant/unreal world. |
| Faustion | usually refers to a character or bargian by a character if they "deal with the Devil"in order to gain energy, life, youth, knoweledge, or power. |
| Hamartia | an error in judgement made by a tregic hero. sometime used to mean tragic flaws but this is not strictly correct. can also refer to a mistake made due to ignorance or with good intentions.ex:Oedipus |
| Hitchcockian | used to describe style and themes similar to those of Alfred Hitchcock films. |
| Hubris/hybris | the greek word for insolence or affront applied to the arrogance or pride of the protagonist in a tragiedy in which he or she defies moral laws or the prohibitions of the Gods.ex: Macbeth |
| Humanism | a philosophy that holds that humans are good and can help themseleves. believe that the goal of humanity is world peace and happiness.ex:Jane from Pride and Prejudice |
| Humor | using wittiness, satire, ect. to bring lighness to the tone of the work or make the reader laugh.ex:Perswasion |
| Impressionism | writing style that seeks to capture the impressions of characters settings and events. present characters emotions. writer's personal mood and perceptions. |
| Invective | an abusive reproachful or venemous language used to express balme or censure; discourse intended to offend or hurt.ex: Mean Girls, "King Lear" |
| Irony | a contadiction between appearance or expectations and reality. |
| Renaissance | a transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy,lasting into the 17th century in England, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influnce expressed in a flowering or the arts and lit. |
| Rhetoric | persuasive effect in public speaking or writing. |
| Sarcasm | a form of speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taught its target. |
| Aesthetic distance | the frame of reference that an artist creates by the use of technical devices in and around the work of art to differentiate it psycholically from reality. How drawn you are to the characters. |
| Allegory | A narrative or description haveing a second meaning beneath the surface one. A story in which characters, things, and events represent concepts or qualitys.ex: lord of the Flies. |
| Anachronism | the misplacing of a person, thing, event or custom, outside of it's proper historical tim. ex: clock in Julius Ceasear, Flintone's |
| Apollonian | calm, well balanced, posed ex: A-cult of Apollo, Ralph Lord of the Flies |
| Archetype | is an original model of a person, oblect, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. ex: Romeo & Juliet-Shaskpeare, The Odyesse-Homer |
| Bathos | a descent in literature where the writer--trying too hard to be passionate/elevated--falls into trivial/stupid imagery. ex: Binnladen wanted for murder, terrorisum, treason and, unpaied parking tickets. |
| Bombast | grandiloqunt, pompous speech or writing. High diction. ex: common feature of English drama of Shakesperian age. |
| Burlesque | in literature, comic imitataion of a serious literary or artitic forum that relies on an extrauagant and its treatment. ex: Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, Tom Thumb Chronotatonthologes by Henry Fielding |
| Darwinism | Social- the theory that competition among all individuals, groups, nations or ideas drives social evolution in human societies. ex: Ralph Lord of the Flies |
| Denouement | the events following the climax in which resolution or clarification takes place |
| Diction | tyle of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Dionysian | Diony's fowlowers, irrational (violence) opposite of Appollonian. ex: any form of Romantic lit. |
| Exsitentialism | style of writing that streses the individual's unique position as a self-determing agent respnsible for the authenticity of his or her own actions |
| Lampoon | a sharp, often harshly used satire directed against an individual or institution in a work of art or lit. ex: going to war without the French is like going to deer hunting without an ocordian |
| Lothario | "Ladies Man" A man who obsessively suduces women. A seccessful womenizer; a man who behaves selfishly |
| Muse | mythical goddesses, each muse patronized a specific area of the liberal arts and sciences. A source of insperation; guiding spirit. |
| Myth | a false or unreliable story or belief. Superior intutive mode of comic understanding regarded as fictional story containing deeoer truths and expereeing fundamental matters |
| Naturalim | a literary philosophy where the thoughts, emotions, and actions of characters are determined by forces out of their control such a nature, huredity, or social forces. ex: red badge of courage |
| Nihilism | a viewpoint that troplitional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless. |
| Pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in liturature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion quality that arouses emotions. ex:Oedipus |
| Panglossian | based on Panglossin Voltaire's "Candide", extreme optimist; extermal optimist. ex: Rasamene, Luna (HP) |
| Parable | a tory deigned to suggest a principle, illustrate an moral, or answer a question. ex: Sttinbeck's The Pearl |
| Protagonist | the most important or leading character in a work; usually identical to the hero/heroine, but not laways |
| Paradox | apparently self-contradicting statement the under lying meaning of which i revealed by careful scrutiny, prevokews fresh thought and arrest attention. ex: Orwell's Animal Farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." |
| Pastroal | having the simplicity, charm, serenity or other characteristics generally attributed to rural life |
| Point of View | the vantage point from which the writer tells a story |
| THoreovian | aka: Transcendentalism |
| Transendentalism | a literary and philosophical movement with Ralph Waldo-Emerson and Margaret Fuller aserting the existance of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empitical and scientific and is knowable through intution. |
| Tone | discribed in a veriety of ways, several adjectives |
| Travesty | a mocking undignified or traivialized treatment of a dignified ubject, usually a kind of parody. ex: Ulysses of Homer's Odyssey, SNL |
| Trope | The use of a word or phrase in a sence diffrent from its ordinary meaning in a non literal sense. ex: Irony or metaphor |
| Rhetoric | |
| Lampoon | a sharp, often harshly used satire directed against an individual or institution in a work of art or lit. ex: going to war without the French is like going to deer hunting without an ocordian |
| Lothario | "Ladies Man" A man who obsessively suduces women. A seccessful womenizer; a man who behaves selfishly |
| Muse | mythical goddesses, each muse patronized a specific area of the liberal arts and sciences. A source of insperation; guiding spirit. |
| Myth | a false or unreliable story or belief. Superior intutive mode of comic understanding regarded as fictional story containing deeoer truths and expereeing fundamental matters |
| Naturalim | a literary philosophy where the thoughts, emotions, and actions of characters are determined by forces out of their control such a nature, huredity, or social forces. ex: red badge of courage |
| Nihilism | a viewpoint that troplitional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless. |
| Pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in liturature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion quality that arouses emotions. ex:Oedipus |
| Panglossian | based on Panglossin Voltaire's "Candide", extreme optimist; extermal optimist. ex: Rasamene, Luna (HP) |
| Parable | a tory deigned to suggest a principle, illustrate an moral, or answer a question. ex: Sttinbeck's The Pearl |
| Protagonist | the most important or leading character in a work; usually identical to the hero/heroine, but not laways |
| Paradox | apparently self-contradicting statement the under lying meaning of which i revealed by careful scrutiny, prevokews fresh thought and arrest attention. ex: Orwell's Animal Farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." |
| Pastroal | having the simplicity, charm, serenity or other characteristics generally attributed to rural life |
| Point of View | the vantage point from which the writer tells a story |
| THoreovian | aka: Transcendentalism |
| Transendentalism | a literary and philosophical movement with Ralph Waldo-Emerson and Margaret Fuller aserting the existance of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empitical and scientific and is knowable through intution. |
| Tone | discribed in a veriety of ways, several adjectives |
| Travesty | a mocking undignified or traivialized treatment of a dignified ubject, usually a kind of parody. ex: Ulysses of Homer's Odyssey, SNL |
| Trope | The use of a word or phrase in a sence diffrent from its ordinary meaning in a non literal sense. ex: Irony or metaphor |
| Rhetoric | persuasive effect in public speaking or writing |
| Sarcasm | a form of speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taught its target |
| Renaissance |
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