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Literature LCC WGU 5
Literature-Notes Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, even, or object |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent) some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. |
| Characterization | The creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike. |
| Conceit | Originally the term, cognate and almost synonymous with "concept" or "conception" implied something conceived in the mind |
| Connotation | The emotional implications ans associations that words may carry, as distiguished from their denotation meaning |
| Dynamic Character | A character who develops or changes as a result of the action of the plot |
| Denotation | The basic meaning of a word, independent of its emtional coloration or associations |
| Hyperole | Exaggeration |
| Flat Character | E.M. Forster's term for a character constructed around a single idea or quality, such as the humours characters of the 17th centruy stage |
| Locale | The physical setting of some action. It denotes geographical and scenic qualities rather than the less tangible aspects of setting |
| Point of View | The vantage point from which an author presents a story |
| 1st Person Point of View | |
| 2nd Person Point of View | |
| 3rd Person Point of View | |
| 3rd Person Objective Point of View | |
| 3rd Person Limited Point of View | |
| 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View | |
| Paradox | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true |
| Metaphor | an analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second |
| Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself. |
| Static Character | A character who changes little if at all |
| Symbol | is something that is itself and also stands for something else |
| Setting | the backgroud against which action takes place |
| Stock Character | Conventional character types |
| Simile | A figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expresed |
| Synecdoche | a troupe in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part |
| Symbolism | in its broad sense it is the use of one object to represent or suggest another or in literature the serious and extensive use of symbols |
| Personification | a figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate ofjects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence, and emotions |
| Regionalism | fidelity to a particular geographical area |
| Transferred | |
| Theme | A central idea |
| Transferred Epithet | An adjective used to limit a noun that is really does not logically modify (ex "foreign policy is domestic policy, and the "foreign minister" and "foreign office" are not at all foreign) |
| Understatement | A common figure of speech in which the literal sense of what is said falls detectably short of (or "under") the magnitude of what is being talked about |
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