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Lit 106 Vocab
Vocab terms for final 2011-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | |
| Allusion | Brief reference to a person, place, thing, event or work of lit. with which the author assumes the reader is familiar |
| Ambiguity | |
| Antagonist | |
| Archetype | |
| Aside | a comment a character will make while in the presence of others who can't hear |
| Carpe Diem | Seize the day |
| External Conflict | Protagonist vs. Antagonist |
| Internal Conflict | Taking place with mind or heart of main character |
| Dramatic Monologue | |
| Elegy | A poem about a dead person |
| Satiric Elegy | Poem that makes fun of dead person |
| Enjambment | line ends without a pause and runs into the next line to complete the sentence |
| Epic | A long, narrative poem emplys a very formed style |
| Mock Epic | Uses conventions of the epic to ridicule subject |
| Epiphany | sudden insight, flash of recognition and illumination |
| Exact Rhyme | has same stressed vowel sounds as well as the sound that follows the vowel |
| Foil | applies to a contrasting character who by way of contrast will make characteristics of another character more apparent |
| Foreshadowing | by means the author hints of something to follow |
| Hamartia | |
| Hubris | |
| Iambic Pentameter | rhymthic pattern of poem |
| Verbal Irony | what is said and what is meant |
| Situational Irony | what is expected and what actually unfolds |
| Dramatic Irony | contrast between what audience knows to be true and what the character thinks |
| Lyric Poem | relatively brief poem that expresses the personal emotions of a single speaker |
| Metaphor | Comparison |
| Metaphysical Conceit | |
| Metaphysical Poetry | |
| Morality Play | |
| Motif | Something that recurs throughout the work |
| Near (or slant) Rhyme | one in which the sounds are almost but not exactly alike |
| Onomatopoeia | reffering to term to the use of a word resembles sound it denotes |
| Open Form (free verse) | No set patterns |
| Paradox | initially sees contradictory but as look makes more sense |
| Parody | |
| Persona | |
| Personification | figure of speech in which you give an inanimate object human qualities |
| Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet | |
| Shakespearean (or English) Sonnet | |
| Plot | Sequence of incidents or events in which a story is composed |
| First Person Point of View | Told from 1st person's point of view |
| Omniscient Point of View | Narrated to us in 3rd person, God like |
| Limited Omniscient Point of View | Narrated to one character |
| Objective Point of View | Voice outside action, no access to minds or hearts |
| Prolepsis | |
| Protagonist | |
| Reliability | |
| Satire | Type of writing that ridicules or makes fun of someone or something but with purpose to expose a point |
| Setting | When and where characters are acting |
| Similie | Like or As |
| Soliloquy | a speech of a character delivered on stage while he is alone |
| Sonnet | lyric poem usually 14 lines long commonly iambic pentameter |
| Symbol | Something that stands for something else |
| Synaesthesia | description of one kind of sensation in term of another sensation |
| Theme | Center insight or idea in a work of literature |
| Tragic Flaw | |
| Flat Characters | Not a lot of traits |
| Round Characters | Complex, many sided |
| Stock Characters | Special form of flat character, shown up a lot, recognizable |
| Static Characters | Does not change |
| Dynamic Characters | Changes by end |
| Escape Literature | |
| Interpretive Literature |
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