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Hatch Literature Ter
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Diction | word choice |
| Syntax | phrase and clause construction |
| Style | high, middle, or low; a product of diction and syntax |
| Rhetoric | the art of persuasion |
| Ethos | the persuasive power of the speaker’s identity |
| Logos | the persuasive power of logic, reason and truth |
| Pathos | the persuasive power of emotion |
| Chronos | arrangement |
| Alliteration | the repetition of an initial consonant sound in close succession |
| Antagonist | a character opposed to the main character |
| Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound in close succession |
| Characterization | the description or development of a character |
| Consonance | repetition of a consonant sound in close succession |
| Direct Characterization | characterization provided by the narrator’s description |
| Doppelganger | a character who serves as a "double" of another character |
| Elegy | a poem of lament and praise for the dead |
| Fable | a story that teaches a moral |
| Foil | a character whose traits serve to highlight the traits of another character by contrast |
| Genre | category or kind |
| Hyperbole | conscious exaggeration |
| Indirect Characterization | characterization provided by the character’s speech, actions, and interactions with other characters and the environment |
| Malapropism | the (ironically) unintentional misuse or mispronunciation of a word or phrase |
| Metonymy | a poetic substitution in which a word or phrase closely associated with another is used in its place |
| Moral | a lesson a fable teaches |
| Paradox | a contradiction that reveals a truth |
| Protagonist | the main character |
| Pun | a play on words in which a word’s two or more meanings are intended simultaneously |
| Synecdoche | a poetic substitution in which the part is used for the whole, or the whole for the part, or the genus for the species, or the species for the genus, or the material for the thing made |
| Tone | the attitude of the speaker toward her/his subject |
| Tragic Irony | a contrast between the intent of an action and its outcome in which the very good an act is meant to secure is lost because of the act |
| Allegory | a story intended to be read on a symbolic level |
| Allusion | a brief or indirect reference |
| Apostrophe | a direct address to an inanimate object or deceased or absent person |
| Character | a person in a story |
| Charactonym | a character name that indicates the character’s traits or symbolic value |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces (internal or external) |
| Crisis | the highest point of unresolved conflict |
| Denouement | a gathering of loose ends; a resolution |
| Dramatic Irony | a contrast between what the audience knows and what a character knows |
| Epic | long verse narrative |
| Episode | a thing complete in itself but also part of a larger sequence |
| Epistolary Novel | a novel in which the plot is advanced by letters of correspondence between characters |
| Epithet | a brief, descriptive phrase attached to, or used in place of a name |
| Exposition | the introduction of character and setting |
| Frame Narrative | a story that contains another story |
| Inciting Force | an event that gives rise to a conflict |
| Irony | a contrast between meanings |
| Kenning | a poetic epithet, often a metaphorical compound word |
| Metaphor | a comparison of unlike things |
| Motif | a recurring image or idea |
| Narrative | story |
| Narrator | storyteller |
| Novel | a long prose narrative |
| Plot | the sequence of events |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told |
| Prolepsis | foreshadowing; a narrative device by which an author hints at an event before it happens |
| Prosopopoeia | personification; a poetic device by which an author gives human qualities to an inhuman thing |
| Setting | the time, place, and moral environment in which events occur |
| Short Story | a prose narrative that can be read in one sitting |
| Simile | a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| Situational Irony | a contrast between what is expected and what happens |
| Symbol | something (usually concrete) that represents something else (usually abstract) |
| Theme | a deeper truth a story reveals |
| Travelogue | a journal of events in various places |
| Verbal Irony | a contrast between what is said and what is meant |
| Act | a set of scenes |
| Aside | speech understood to be heard only by those to whom it is directed |
| Comedy | a plot that depicts a rising |
| Dialogue | conversation |
| Drama | literature that is meant to be enacted |
| Monologue | a speech |
| Romance | a plot that depicts a falling, then a rising |
| Scene | a part of a play that occurs in one setting |
| Soliloquy | a speech given by a character alone on stage |
| Stage Direction | written instructions the actors perform |
| Tragedy | a plot that depicts a falling |
| Ballad | a short verse narrative |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Bob & Wheel | the five line tag at the end of each strophe of Gawain and the Green Knight; the bob is the one- or two-word line that initiates the rhyming; the wheel is the four rhyming lines that follow |
| Caesura | a pause within a line of poetry |
| Common Meter | alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter |
| Couplet | a set of two lines |
| End Rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of lines |
| Enjambment | an unnatural line break |
| Feminine Rhyme | rhyme in which the accented vowel sound is not the last vowel sound; “Double Rhyme” |
| Foot | a unit of rhythmic measure |
| Iamb U / | a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Trochee / U | a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
| Anapest U U / | a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable |
| Dactyl / U U | a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
| Pyrrhic U U | a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables |
| Spondee / / | a metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables |
| Heroic Verse | rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter |
| Masculine Rhyme | rhyme in which the accented vowel sound is the last vowel sound |
| Meter | the measure of rhythm |
| Iambic Pentameter | a meter consisting of five iambs per line (Shakespeare’s go-to meter; the meter of sonnets) |
| Dactylic Hexameter | a meter consisting of six dactyls per line (Homer’s go-to meter; Virgil’s Aeneid meter) |
| Morality Play | a play intended to teach |
| Novella | a short novel |
| Octet | an eight line set |
| Persona | a mask; the identity a poet adopts to speak a poem |
| Quatrain | a four line set |
| Rhetorical Pause | an unpunctuated caesura |
| Rhyme | the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly placed words |
| Rhythm | the wave-like quality of speech |
| Scansion | the notation of verse for meter and rhyme scheme |
| Scop | Anglo-Saxon poet singer |
| Sextet | a six line set |
| Sonnet | a fixed form poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme |
| Shakespearean or English Sonnet | a sonnet with an ABAB CDCD EF EF GG scheme |
| Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet | a sonnet with an ABBA ABBA CDECDE scheme |
| Verse | metered literature |
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DC Fiendish
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