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LIC4 A General terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line or verse or prose (Cool Cats) |
| assonance | repetition of 2+ vowel sounds in successive words that create a kind of rhyme. can be used to focus attention. to make more memorable |
| connotation | association or additional meaning to a word |
| denotation | literal (dictionary) meaning of the word |
| epic | long narrative poem elevated style legendary mythical hero ((odyssey) |
| Epiphany | a moment of insight, discovery, or revelation in which a character's life is greatly altered by the end of the story. |
| Genre | combination of literary form and subject matter, usually aimed at creating certain effect |
| Lyric | written in the 1st person, song like and emotional, short poem |
| monologue | extended speech by a single character |
| motivation | what a character want, reason author provides for character's action |
| motif | an element that recurs significantly through a narrative. Can be an image, idea, theme, situation, or action. |
| Narrative | tells a story. Ballads and epic poems |
| onomatopoeia | attempts to represent a thing or action ( crash, bang, pitter-patter) |
| Persona | (Latin: mask) Fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story , or novel. always the narrator of the work and not merely a character in it. |
| setting | includes the time, location, circumstances, and characters, everything in which a story takes place, and provides the main backdrop and Mood (psychology) for a story or stories. |
| subgenres | a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction. |
| Novel | A book length variable |
| fiction | not bound by factual accuracy |
| non-fiction | genre in which actual events are presented as a novel length story, using techniques of fiction. |
| apprenticeship novel | (german; bildungsroman; novel of growth and development) youth who struggles toward maturity forming a philosophy of life. |
| epic novel | |
| epistolary novel | story is told by letters written by 1+ characters. Gives sense of authenticity/discovery |
| Picaresque Novel | represents the life of a likable scoundral at odds with respectable society. loose plot and chronologic order (adventure) |
| Novella | between short story and novel |
| subplot | A secondary story or plot line that is interesting on its own |
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