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English- Vocab
english 102
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aphorism | short concise statement of a principle or sentiment |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds beginning each word in a sequence of words. |
| Archetype | characters, images and themes that symbolically embody human meaning and experiences. |
| Didactic | literature that attempts to teach a lesson, or has a moral, inspires a model for proper behavior |
| cultural criticism | critical method that advocates an interdisciplinary approach using history. |
| figurative language | use of a word or group of words that is literally inaccurate but describes a person or event vividly by getting responses that it evokes. |
| dynamic character | contradictory and changing in some way during the story. |
| diction | writers choice of language including words, or phrases and sentence structure. |
| feminist criticism | sought to correct a predominated male dominate critical perspective with a woman's point of view. |
| epic | oldest form of narrative; written in an elevated style that chronicles important heroic deeds and events in a nations history. |
| convention | tradtional or commonly accepted technique of writing that sometimes an unbelievable device that the reader agrees to believe. |
| genre | literary work such as short story, poem, novel, essay, play or poem. |
| irony | literary device that uses words to express something other than that what is meant by the speaker. |
| Objective narrator | way of telling a story from a third person POV with out revealing the thoughts or feelings of any character |
| unreliable narrator | gives an interpretation of events that the reader cannot trust to represent the views of the author |
| climax | turning point of highest interest in a narrative; the point at which the most important part of action takes place and the final outcome or resolution of the plot becomes inevitable. |
| connotation | associative meanings that have built up around a work or what a word connotates. |
| graphic novels | substantial single volumes of pictorial images arranged in a sequence to narrate a story ...with or without words. |
| foreshadowing | introduction of specific words into a narrative to suggest or anticipate later events that are central to the action and its resolution. |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statements that are not intended to be taken for truth. |
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