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38 Cards in this Set
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Genre
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a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
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Gothic
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combines fiction, horror and Romanticism.
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The Sublime
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an overpowering sense of the greatness and power of nature, which can be uplifting, awe-inspiring and terrifying, caused by experience of beauty, vastness or grandeur.
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Allusion
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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
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Using versus Citing a word
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Using: You are a jerk.
Citing: The word "jerk" is inappropriate for use in a classroom. |
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Theme
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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
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Motif
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ny recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
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Irony
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he expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
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Epiphany
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is an experience of sudden and striking realization.
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Quest
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a journey towards a goal, serves as a plot device and (frequently) as a symbol.
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Imagery
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includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor.
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Symbolism
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A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning. The actions of a character, word, action, or event that have a deeper meaning in the context of the whole story.
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Connotation
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The emotional implications and association that words may carry
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Allegory
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a story with two levels of meaning. First, there's the surface of the story. You know, the characters and plot and all that obvious stuff. Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the jazz on the surface represents.
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Novel of Manners
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a realistic story that concentrates the reader's attention upon the customs and conversation, and the ways of thinking and valuing of the people of a social class.
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Historical Fiction
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a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
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Suspense
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As a state of mind, suspense is characterized by anticipation. Suspenseoccurs when the audience is unsure of what will happen next in a story, when the audience is anticipating an upcoming event, or when an outcome is uncertain.
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Liminality
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he transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which theparticipant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, showsobedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct,dress, etc.
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Voice
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he individual writing style of an author, a combination of their common usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text
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Story and Discourse
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Prose: In structuralist terminology the WHAT of the narrative is called story, the HOW is called discourse.
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Villanelle
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a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
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Sestina
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a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.
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Sonnet
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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
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Dramatic monologue
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A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.
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Paratext
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A concept in literary interpretation. The main text of published authors (e.g. the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) is often surrounded by other material supplied by editors, printers, and publishers, which is known as the paratext.
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Rhythym
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The first two syllables are unstressed, while the final syllable is stressed. 5. Dactyl -- the Dactyl is the opposite of the Anapest, in that it has one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables as in the phrase: 'FLY a-way.' These metrical units, or feet, make up the beat or rhythm of poetry.
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Meter
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Metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study of metres and forms of versification is known as prosody.
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Caesura
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A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry--an important part of poetic rhythm.
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Enjambment
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The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break. If a poet allows all the sentences of a poem to end in the same place as regular line-breaks, a kind of deadening can happen in the ear, and in the brain too, as all the thoughts can end up being the same length.
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Free verse
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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
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Methods of Characterization (8)
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1) Naming
2) Description of physical appearance (clothing) 3) Association with objects, surroundings, possessions, or with images directly introduced by the narrator 4) Direct discussion and analysis of the character by the narrator 5) Actions and behaviour, whether described or represented 6) Talk by the character including a) talk as action b) talk as self-defining via vocabulary, dialect, rhetoric c) self analysis by the character, whether accurate or not 7) Talk about the character by other, accurate or not 8) Representation or description of the characters thought |
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Emphasis
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1) Position: beginnings and endings
2) Length 3) Examples 4) Repetition 5) Amplitude |
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Contract of Expectations
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The way the author sets the tone/expectations during the beginning of the story.
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Types of Narrators
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1st person (one of the characters), 2nd person (you), 3rd person (told by someone who is not a character in the story), Limited 3rd person (narrator only knows what one of the characters is thinking)
Distance, awareness, emotional involvement, style, relationship with reader. |
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Minimalism
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characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity
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Diction
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Refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a poem or story.
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Subject vs Predicate
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The subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something about the subject. To determine the subject of a sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by placing "who?" or "what?" before it -- the answer is the subject.
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Article, Adjective, Adverbs
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Article:Define a noun as specific or unspecific. After the long day, the cup of tea tastes particularly good. By using the, we've shown that it was one specific day that was long, and one specific cup of tea that tasted good.
Adjective: Modify nouns (young) Adverbs: Modify verbs (faster) |
