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English vocabs
IB literary terms from oxford study course
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is alienation? | this term, form Marxism, suggest that under capitalism we live estranged from our true human natures. |
| what is allegory? | A story of some complexity that corresponds to another situation on a deeper level |
| what is alliteration? | Repetition of an identical consonant sounds at the beginning of stressed words, usually close together |
| what is allusion? | A reference to an event, person, place, work of literature, etc. that gives additional layers of meaning to a text or enlarges its frame of reference. |
| what is ambiguity? | Where language and tone are (usually deliberately), unclear and may have two or more interpretations or meanings. |
| what is ambivalence? | where the writer's attitude to, for example, a character or event is not clear-cut, but may seem to hold at least two responses |
| what is antithesis? | contrasting ideas by balancing words of opposite meaning and idea |
| what is apostrophe? | an exclamatory passage where the speaker or writer breaks off in the flow of a narrative or poem to address a dead or absent person, a particular audience, or object. |
| what is assonance? | repetition of similar vowel sounds close to one another |
| what is atmosphere? | often confused with "mood", it refers specifically to place, a setting, or surroundings |
| what is bathos? | a sudden descent from the sublime or serious, to ridiculous or trivial |
| what is bildungsroman? | a German term for a novel focusing on the development of a character from youth to maturity |
| what is blank verse? | unrhymed poetry not broken into stanzas, keeping a strict pattern in each line, usually in iambic pentameter. |
| what is caesura? | a break or pause within a line of poetry by comma or full stop or unmarked pause, used for emphasis, or to chance direction or pace |
| what is caricature? | an exaggerated representation of a character often by emphasizing a small number of features, usually for comic and satiric purposes |
| what is colloquial? | everyday speech and language as opposed to literary or formal register |
| what is conceit? | a witty thought or idea of image, a far-fetched comparison, as found in 16th and 17th century poetry. EX. donne compares two lovers to the points of a math compass |
| what is concrete? | refers to objects or aspects that may be perceived by the senses |
| what is consonance? | where the final consonants are the same in two or more words close together |
| what is contradiction? | stating or implying the opposite of what has been said or suggested |
| what is couplet? | two consecutive rhyming lines of verse. |
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