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Exposition
Exposition definitons
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | When several words in a line use the same initial consonant sound or repeat the same vowel sound |
| Caesura | A grammatical pause or physical break in a line of poetry, which was used to divide the line in old English and some middle English poetry |
| Epic poem (poetry) | A long narrative poem about the life of a heroic figure, usually dealing with the struggle between good and evil |
| Kenning | A poetic name for a person, place or thing, which consists of several descriptive words often joined by a hyphen |
| Old English | Anglo-Saxon literature |
| Middle English | English language from 1150 to 1470 spoken after Norman conquest |
| Frame Narrative | A story within a story |
| Vernacular | Speech of "common people", people in a certain region |
| Allusion | An indirect reference to another literary work or historical figure or event. Sometimes the reference is to a character; other times it refers to a famous line or quotation |
| Rhyme | Two words that sound the same. In poetry, rhyme is often used to mark the end of a line |
| Medieval Romance | A type of prose and narrative that was popular in noble courts of High Medieval and early modern Europe. They were stories about heroes that go on quests |
| Character | Person in a novel, play, or movie |
| Chivalry | The medieval knightly system with it's religious, moral and social code |
| Bob and wheel | One line of two (occasionally three) syllables followed by four short rhyming lines. This device appears at the conclusion of stanzas in later middle English poetry |
| Assonance | The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernable |
| Consonance | A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme |
| Imagery | Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images |
| Blank verse | Poetry that has meter but not rhyme |
| Protagonist | The main character of a book, who is usually viewed in a positive light |
| Antagonist | A character who opposes the hero of the story, Often, the antagonist shows the hero's character by contrast |
| Amanuensis | A literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing |
| Metaphor | An implicit comparison between two things, or between a character or event and a broader theme or concept or idea |
| Metonymy | When a poet refers to something by one of its characteristics rather than its name |
| Allegory | A story with two levels of meaning, one that is literal, and one which the characters, places, and events stand for something outside the story |
| Episodic quest | A quest, a journey towards a goal |
| Plot | The events or course of action that moves a story along |
| Conflict | Tensions or difficulties faced by the characters in a story. Conflict can be internal, like personal doubts, or external, like physical obstacles or enemies |
| Chiasmus | A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructures, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the sentence or a modified form |
| Foreshadowing | An event that hints at something that will happen later |
| Epistolary Novel | Works of fiction that are written in the form of letters or other documents |
| Realistic Fiction | Creates imaginary characters and situations that depict our world and society |
| Parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect |
| Satire | A way of criticizing an idea or person by exaggerating their troubling characteristics to create humor, but with the ultimate goal of producing reform |
| Episodic narrative | A genre of narrative that is divided into a fixed set of episodes. Multiple episodes are usually grouped together into a series through a unifying story, with the option to view immediately |
| Setting | The time and place (when and where) of the story |
| Point of View | The angle from which a story is told |
| Novel of manners | A novel dominated by social customs, manners, conventions, and habits of a definite social class |
| Litotes | Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary |
| Polysyndeton | The deliberate insertion of conjunctions into a sentence for the purpose of "slowing up the rhythm of the prose" so as to produce "an impressively solemn note" |
| Bildungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education |
| Gothic Fiction | It is a genre of literature that combines dark elements, spooky settings, conflicted and disturbed characters into a whimsically horrific, often romantic story |
| Denouement | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together, and matters are explained or passing reference |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
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