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litterms
littermstest
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| local color | use of details that are common in a region of the country |
| malapropism | a type of pun or play on words that resulsts when two words become jumbled in the speaker's mind |
| morality play | type of allegorical drama making a moral or religious point |
| motif | often-repeated idea or theme in literature |
| narration | writing that relates an event or a series of events: a story |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| naturalism | extreme form of realism in which the author tries to show the relation of a person to the enironment or surroundings. |
| novella | prose work longer than the standard short story but shorter and less complex than a full length novel |
| oxymoron | combination of contradictory terms |
| parable | short descriptive story that illustrates a particular belief or moral |
| paradox | statement that seems contrary to common sense yet may in fact be true |
| parody | for of literature intended to mock a particular literary work or its style comic effect is intended |
| pathos | greek rook word meaning suffereing and passion it usually describes the part in a play or story that is intended to elicit pity or sorrow from the audience or reader |
| persona | voice or personality an author assumes for a particular purpose |
| picaresque novel | novel consisting of a lenghty string of loosely connected events |
| poetic justice | a term that describes a character "getting what he deserves" in the end , especially if hat he deserves is punishment |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the story is told |
| protagonist | the main character or hero of the story |
| pseudonym | means false name |
| pun | word or phrase that is used in such a way as to suggest more than one possible meaning |
| quest | features a main character who is seeking to find something or schieve a goal |
| realism | literature that attempts to represent life as it really is |
| reminiscence | writing based on writer's memory of a particular time place or incident |
| renaissance | means rebirth period of history following the middle ages 4-7 centuries, any period of time where intellectual and artistic interest is revived or reborn |
| romanticism | literary movement with an emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
| sarcasm | use of praise to mock someone or something |
| satire | literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness often with the intent of correcting or changing the subjest of the satiric attack |
| slapstick | form of low comedy that makes its appeal through the use of exaggerated sometimes violent action |
| soliloquy | speech delivered by a character when he or she is alone on stage |
| stream of consciousness | style or writing in which the thoughts and feelings of the writer are recorded as the occur |
| structure | form or organization a writer uses for her or his literary work |
| style | how the author uses words phrases and sentences to form his or her own ideas, qualities and characteristics that distinguish one writer's work from the work of others |
| symbol | person place thing or event used to represent something else |
| theme | statement about life a particular work is trying to get across to the reader |
| tone | overall feeling or effect created by a writer's use of words |
| tragedy | literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character and by forces beyond his or her control |
| tragic hero | character who experiences an inner struggle because of a character flaw that struggle ends in the defeat of the hero |
| transcendentalism | philosophy tha trequires human beings to go beyond reason in their search for truth an individual can arrive at the basic truths of life through spiritual insight if he or she takes the time to think seriously about them |
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