ENGLISH VOC II
Terms
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- anticlimax
- unexpected, insignificant resolution to a narrative
- anti-story
- experimental short story that attempts to convey obj. reality by avoiding conventions
- complication
- introduction & development of a conflict
- compression
- economical use of language
- concrete language
- language that describes or portrays specific nouns rather than general
- convention
- traditional or commonly accepted technique of writing or device used in writing
- crisis
- turning point in a narrative
- deconstruction
- critical approach investigating unstable properties of language
- didactic
- narrative or other work of art presented in order to teach a specific lesson
- distance
- an author's or narrator's spatial or temporal and hence emotional removal or aloofness from action of a narrative
- epigraph
- quotation placed at beginning of work that suggest the theme
- explication
- act of explaining or interpreting the meaning of a text
- figurative language
- use of a word or group of words that's litterally inaccurate to describe or define a p,p,t by calling forth sensations they evoke
- formalism
- critical approach that stresses self-contained & self-referential nature of a work of art
- frame story
- story w/in a story
- impressionism
- way of writing that presents events in a highly subjective & personal light...
- magical realism
- fiction that interweaves realistic & fantastic details, juxtapose marvelous w/ordinary
- metafiction
- stories about language & process of writing
- minimalism
- literary style exemplifying economy & restraint
- modernism
- lable loosely applied to work of certain writers who investigated structure & texture of lit & challenged conventions
- naturalism
- extreme form of realism...work presented as sci. observation
- realism
- telling of a sotry in a manner that's faithful of reader's experience of real life
- reversal
- any turnabout in the fortunes of a character
- sketch
- relaxed, static, predominantly descriptive lit composition often close to an essay in form
- structuralism
- critical approach w/ formalism...attention to formal elements of texts
- unity
- relation of all parts of a work to one central or organizing principle
- verisimilitude
- use of certain lifelike details to give an imaginative narrative work the semblance of reality or actuality