Literature-Notes Chapter 5
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| Allusion | A figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, even, or object
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| 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.
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| Characterization | The creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike.
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| Conceit | Originally the term, cognate and almost synonymous with "concept" or "conception" implied something conceived in the mind
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| Connotation | The emotional implications ans associations that words may carry, as distiguished from their denotation meaning
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| Dynamic Character | A character who develops or changes as a result of the action of the plot
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| Denotation | The basic meaning of a word, independent of its emtional coloration or associations
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| Hyperole | Exaggeration
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| 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
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| Locale | The physical setting of some action. It denotes geographical and scenic qualities rather than the less tangible aspects of setting
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| Point of View | The vantage point from which an author presents a story
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| 1st Person Point of View |
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| 2nd Person Point of View |
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| 3rd Person Point of View |
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| 3rd Person Objective Point of View |
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| 3rd Person Limited Point of View |
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| 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View |
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| Paradox | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true
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| Metaphor | an analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second
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| Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself.
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| Static Character | A character who changes little if at all
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| Symbol | is something that is itself and also stands for something else
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| Setting | the backgroud against which action takes place
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| Stock Character | Conventional character types
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| Simile | A figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expresed
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| Synecdoche | a troupe in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part
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| 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
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| 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
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| Regionalism | fidelity to a particular geographical area
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| Transferred |
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| Theme | A central idea
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| 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)
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| 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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