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english-1
Literary Terms and techniques
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | Objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with mesanings that lie outside the narrative itself. |
| alliteration | the practice beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound |
| iallusion | A brief, indirect referance to any person, place or thing which is presumably commonly known, such as a person, event, book, myth, place, etc. |
| anecdote | a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event. |
| ananlogy | a similarity ot somparison between things or the relationship between them. |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent or imaginary personan abstraction, a spirit, or an inanimate object as though they were present |
| archetype | an image, a decriptive detal, a plot pattern or charater type that occurs frequently in literature, mythology, or folklore. An ideal example of a particular thing; an original after which other things are patterned. |
| characterization | the process of presenting the different saspects of a character and personality of someone in a novel or short story or any other narrative depiction of human beings |
| direct characterization | the author directly states a character's traits |
| indirect characterization | the author tells what a character looks like, what action he takes, what he says, and how other characters react to him/her. |
| protagonist | The main character |
| antagonist | the character directly opposed to the protagonist |
| two-dimensional or flat character | the author chooses to concentrate on a single dominant trait to the exclusion or reduction of others |
| three-dimensional or round character | the author presents a complex, full rounded personality |
| caricature | a single dominant trait is carried to the extreme; they are memorable but lack depth |
| static character | a character who changes ltlle if at all. Things happen TO such a character without things happening WITHIN.the character is revealed by the actions but is not changed by the action |
| dynamic character | A character that changes in response to actions through which he/she passes; it serves to reveal consequences of actions |
| assonance | the repetition of accented vowel sound with a series of words but with different consonant sounds |
| consonance | the repetition of a consonant sount within a series of words but with different vowel sounds |
| colloquialism | language of casual, everyday converstation |
| denotation | the basic meaning of a word; the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color |
| connotation | the emotional implications and associations that words may carry; the word has an implied, suggested meaning |
| description | a potrait in words of a person, place, or thing |
| details | the facts given by the author or speaker for the attitude ot tone |
| dialect | the variety of language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
| dialouge | a conversation between characters |
| diction | the author's word choices intented to convey a certain effect |
| epiphany | some moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life, is altered |
| euphemism | a device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasentness |
| figurative language/figure of speech | intentional departure from the mormal meaning of the words; writing or speech not meant to be taken literally |
| flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate to an event from a earlier time |
| foreshadowing | the use in literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| imary/sensory language | the sensory of details or figurative language used that relates to the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory imagery |
| irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual aning differ; differences between apperance and reality, expectaion and result |
| dramatic irony | a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows to be true. |
| situational irony | an event occurs that directly contrasts the expectations of the characters or the reader. Events turn out opposite of what one expects |
| verbal irony | words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. |
| understatement | saying less than what is actually meant |
| sarcasm | bitter language that is meant to hurt or ridicule |
| language | the entire body of words used in text |
| methapor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor occurring at length, perhaps in a paragraph, stanza, or even the entire work |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech where the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely related |
| motivation | a reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts feelings, actions, or behavior |
| onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words |
| oxymoron | the author apparently contridictory terms to suggest a paradox |
| paradox | a statement that seems contridictory or absurd but that exprsses the truth |
| prose | one of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. Anything that is n peotry is prose |
| pun | a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike |
| myth | an anonymous story that presents supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events |
| repetition | the duplication, either exact or approxiamte, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern |
| rhetorical question | a question for rhetorical effect only and not requiring a repl or intended to induce a reply |
| rhetoric | writing effectively, elowuently, and persuasively. someone wants you to feel, react, or think a certain way when you read something |
| rhetorical techniques | devices used in effective or persuasive language |
| rhetorical shift/transitions/transitional phrases | a change from one tone or attitude to another. |
| satire | a technique that ridicules human vices or social institutions in effort to expose their weakness and evils |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with like or as |
| symbolism | anything that represents or stands for somehting else |
| syntax | the physical arrangement of words in a sentence. the way the author chooses to join words onto phrases, cluases, and sentences |
| inferance/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented |
| parallesim | parallel construction or parallel structure. The grammatical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs. |
| personification | a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions |
| point of view | the relationship between the narrator of a story and teh characters and actions in it. |
| 1st person | offers a personal account of his/her own experians or may focus on ehat happens to other characters |
| 3rd person | stands anonymously outside a story's action |
| omniscient narrator | all-knowing; knows what characters say, do, and think |
| limited narrator | the author limits his omniscience to the thoughts and actions of a few of the characters or to the mind of a single character |
| objective narrator | decribes only what can be seen or heard(doesn't know what characters think) |
| style | a writer's mode of expression. the characteristic manner of expression of an author. |
| theme | a central message, idea, or insight into life revealed through the literary work |
| tone | the authors attitude toward his material, the audience, or both |
| comic relief | a humorous scene, incident, or speech on the course of a rious fiction or drama |
| Dea ex Machina | an abrupt but timely apperance of a god used to extricate charaters from a perplexing situation |
| questioning | parallelism of interrogatives |
| stream of awarness | the total awarness of an individual; all the levels of awareness |
| foil | any person who through contrast underscores or highlights the distinctive characteristics of another |
| suspense | the quality which attracts the reader and encourages them to keep reading |
| tragedy of deprivation | a struggle or sacrifce occurs during an achievement so when the achievement is taken away, the tragedy occurs |
| fable | a narrdtive, usuallt short, which has a moral and uses animal characters that act like humans |
| novella | a short novel |
| parable | a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson |
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