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Reading Literature
ODLT Entries week 1, 2 + 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Literature | body of written works related by subject, language, place of origin or standards of quality |
| orature | oral literature |
| hermeneutics | the theory of interpretation |
| affective | about emotional effects or dispositions |
| intentional fallacy | assumption that an author's declared or supposed intention of the work is proper basis for deciding its worth |
| close reading | detailed analysis of a literary text |
| distant reading | discovering about the text without reading it |
| muse | source of inspiration to a poet/writer, usually in the form of a female deity |
| pathos | the ability of a piece to move, sympethize you |
| catharsis | the effect of purgation/purification achieved by tragic drama |
| didactive | instructive, teaches something |
| defamiliarization | effect where the perception is disrupted, allowing us to see things afresh |
| alienation effect | encouraging attitude and critics from the audience |
| death of the author | slogan - no godlike author, freedom of interpretation to readers |
| autotelic | artistic work having no purpose beyond existing |
| oeuvre | total body of works by a given writer |
| canon | a body of writings recognised by authority |
| theme | topic that reocurs, abstract idea |
| ambiguity | openness to different interpretations, to be understood in different ways |
| plot | pattern of events, arranged in an interesting way |
| story | any narrative or tale recounting a series of events |
| narrative | a telling of events |
| frame narrative | a story with another story embedded into it |
| context | parts around a passage that give more meaning |
| paratext | textual item that serves function to what it describes |
| epigraph | a quote/motto placed at the start of a text as indicator for its theme |
| prologue | introductory section of a literary work/play/speech |
| exposition | opening of a play or story |
| dénouement | the clearing up of the story |
| anachrony | discrepancy in the order of events |
| analepsis | flashback |
| prolepsis | flash foreward |
| in medias res | narrator beginnin in the middle of things |
| anagnorisis | when the character realizes the true state of affairs |
| peripeteia | sudden reversal of protagonist's circumstances or fortune |
| epiphany | God's presence in the world OR sudden spiritual manifestation |
| hubris | pride or arrogance of the protagonist |
| foil | character whose qualities and actions serve to empathise those of the protagonist |
| stock character/flat character | stereotype, easily recognised by reader |
| topos | motif |
| leitmotif | leading motif |
| novella | inbetween a short story and a novel |
| focalisation | point of view |
| foregrounding | giving unusual prominence to one element or property of a text |
| climax | any moment of great intensity in a literary work (especially in Drama) |
| anticlimax | an abrubt lapse form growing intensity to triviality in a work, with the effect of disappointed expectation or deflated suspense. |
| closure | the sense of completion or resolution at the end of a literary work or part of a work |
| epilogue | a concluding section of any written work |
| character | a personage in a narrative or dramatic work; also a kind of prose sketch briefly describing some recognizable type of person |
| characterization | the representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works |
| protagonist | the chief character in a play or story, who may also be opposed by an antagonist |
| antagonist | the most porminent of the characters who oppose the protagonist or hero(ine) in a dramatic or narrative work |
| anti-hero | a central character in a dramatic or narrative work who lacks the qualities of nobility and magnanimity expected of traditional heroes and heroines |
| short story | a fictional prose tale of no specific length, but too short to be published as a volume on its own (as novellas sometimes and novels usually are) |
| novel | nearly always an extended fictional prose narrative, of geater length than a short story or novella |
| point of view | the position or vantage-point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us |
| free indirect style | a manner of presenting the thoughts or utterances of a fictional character as if from the character's point of view by combining grammatical and other featues of the character's "direct speech with features of the narrators 'indirect' report |
| narrator | one who tells or is assumed to be telling the story in a given narrative |
| omniscient narrator | an 'all-knowing' kind of narrator very commonly found in works of fiction written as third-person narratives |
| first-person narrative | a narrative or mode of storytelling in which the narrator appears as the 'I', recollecting his or her own parts in the events |
| third-person narrative | a narrative mode of storytelling in which the narrator is not a character within the events related, but "outside" of those events |
| unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the true understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author |
| intrusive narrator | an omniscient narrator who, in additon to reporting the events of a story, offers further comments on characters and events, and sometimes refelcts more generally on the significance of the story |
| persona | the assumed identity or fictional "I" assumed by a writer in a literary work |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something elkse beyond it |
| rhyme | the identity of sound between syllables or paired groups of syllables OR a poem employing this device |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern in which the rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem or stanza |
| verse | poetry as a distinct from prose OR a line of poetry or a stanza |
| verse form | a general term for any given arrangement of metrical verse lines into a poem |
| stanza | a group of verse lines forming a section of a poem and sharing the same structure as all or some of the other sections of the same poem |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming verse lines, usually of the same length |
| tercet | a unit of three verse lines, usually rhyming either with each other or with neighbouring lines |
| quatrain | a verse stanza of four lines, often rhymed |
| sestet | a group of six verse lines forming the second part of a sonnet OR a stanza of six lines |
| octave | a group of eight verse lines forming the first part of a sonnet OR a stanza of eight lines |
| enjambment | the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause |
| eye rhyme | spelling matters, sounds do not (love/prove) |
| half-rhyme | vowel sounds do not match (love/have) |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within the same line |
| leonine rhyme | a syllable in the middle of the line rhymes with a syllable at the end of the line |
| masculine rhyme | rhyme between single stressed syllables at the end of lines |
| feminine rhyme | rhyme on 2 syllables, first stressed, second not stressed |
| alliteration | repetition of the same sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds (grope/group) |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds they refer to |
| poetic diction | choice of words and poetry |
| bard | poet with a privilaged status awarded |
| sonnet | 14 rhyming lines of equal length |
| Petrarchan sonnet | characteristic, octave rhyming abba abba and iambic pentameter |
| blazon | poetic cathaloge of a woman's admirable features |
| heroic couplet | rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines |
| volta | turn in mood of a sonnet |
| cycle | group of works that share a theme/subject |
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