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Literature LCC WGU
Literature notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Literary Form | The way in which a writer has cosen to organize thoughts and words |
| Saluatation | A greeting |
| Conventions | Typical components of a letter |
| Genre | Type of story being told |
| Homophones | sound alike words |
| Becoming a critical thinker and writer about literature means learning to recongize when... | we are confused by what we read and to use that confusion as a tool for discovering meaning. |
| metaphor | which equates one thing with another to which it bears no obvious connection |
| enigma | mystery |
| constraints | rules or conventions that detemine what is and is not permitted |
| Ambiguity of Syntax | many instances of ambiguity in literary writing derive from different possible grammatical possiblilities of reading a sentence |
| enjambment | sentences did not always end when the lines ended it is a technique in poetry |
| parse | frammar of the sentences |
| clauses | individual units of subjects, predicates, and their modifiers |
| independent clauses | which can make sense on their own |
| dependent clauses | which depend on the context of the sentence for their meaning |
| syntax | the way the parts of the sentence fit together grammatically |
| Ambiguity of diction | refers to a difficulty in understanding the way words are put together within a particular clause |
| Ambiguity of words | refers to muliple meanings of a particular word or group of words |
| Summary | tool to clarify and to understand the basic meaning of a text before you cokplete your critical analysis and begin your interpretation |
| Setting | the location and the time frame |
| ambigunity of situations | uncertainty about the basic meaning of what is happening |
| ambiguity of plot | surprises about the events we thought we had understood (plot twist) |
| parable | a story, usually quite brief, that describes a series of events with an ambiguous moral at the end |
| segmentation | when you break down a story into individual narrative units-self contained scenes or sequences of actions-the result this is the result |
| trompe l'oeil | genre of painting (literally "deceive the eye") especially popular during the seventeenth century, makes a two-dimensional canvas or a flat wall appear as if it was three-dimensional |
| Fiction | Narrative writing drawn from the imagination rather than from history or fact. |
| Nonfiction Novel | a historical event is described in a way that esploits some of the devices of fiction, including a nonlinear time sequence and access to inner states of mind and feeling not commonly present in historical writing. |
| Genre | used to designate the types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or sometimes, subject matter. |
| Apprenticeship Novel | a novel that recounts the youth and young adulthood of a sensitive protagonist who is attempting to learn the nature of the world, discover its meaning and pattern, and acquire a philosophy of life and "the art of living." |
| Epic | a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race. |
| Epistolary Novel | a novel in which the narrative is carried forward by letters writen by one or more of the characters. |
| Picaresque Novel | a chronicle, usually autobiographical, presenting the life story of a rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wits than his industry |
| Novella | a tale or short story |
| Lyric | a brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating a single, unified impression. |
| Sonnet | a poem almost invariably of fourteen lines and following one of several set rhyme schemes. Two types: Italian/Petrarchan or English/Shakespearean |
| Narrative | An account of events; anything that is narrated |
| Prose | in rhymed accentual verse... another name is prosa (used in hymns as well) |
| Poetry | a term applied to the many forms in which human beings have given rhythmic expression to their most intense perceptions of the world, themselves, and the relation of the two. |
| Drama | a story told in action by actors who impersonate the characters with dialogue |
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