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Lit Terms
Sara's 15 high priority lit terms
Term | Definition |
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Analepsis | A flashback, a recounting of events before the narrative began |
Antihero | Protagonist who defies conventional ideas of heroism (bravery,honesty, etc.) |
Apostrophe | Addressing an idea, object, or a person not present in a speech |
Full rhyme | Rhyme with identical sounds (cat & bat) |
Foil | Character whose traits contast another's |
Framed narrative | Main story occurs in another story |
Leitmotif | Principal motif in literary work |
Madonna complex | Freudian principle stating women are either saints or debased femme fatales |
Eros/Thanatos | Two Freudian ideas, Eros refers to the "life drive" and Thanatos is the "death drive" |
Metafiction | Fiction about the values, tropes, and conventions held in fictional writing |
Montage | Narrative that jumps between perspectives and times; popularized by John Dos Passos |
Mystic Method | Modernist literary style that combines ancient myths and contemporary society |
Pararhyme | Half-rhyme, consonant sounds the same but vowel sounds differ (light-late) |
Prolepses | Flash-foreword; opposite of analepsis |
Social realism | Literary style that strives to accurately portray social issues realistically |
Unreliable narrator | Narrator whose statements are not completely honest or accurate |