English 200 Terms
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- Persona vs. speaker
- specific character of the speaker VS. voice used by the author to create a character
- image
- language that addresses the senses
- metaphor
- comparison without using LIKE or AS
- simile
- comparison using LIKE or AS
- metonymy
- a type of metaphor in which something closely associated w. a subject is substituted for it ex: The White House=President
- personification
- metaphor attributing human characteristics to a non-human thing
- symbol- conventional:
- obvious, banking on a common cultural experience
- symbol- literary:
- contextual, a conventional symbol with reworked meaning specific to text
- alliteration
- words beginning with the same letter
- assonance
- similar sounding words after one another (same sane)
- consonance
- identical consonant sounds w. different vowel sounds (home same)
- oxymoron
- 2 opposite concepts brought together to describe 1 common subject
- irony (verbal)
- stating obvious and pointedly meaning the opposite
- apostrophe
- an address to absent person or non-human, non-comprehending object (ex: Wordsworths' Milton)
- ambiguity
- allows for 2 or more simultaneous interpretations of a single word (ex: Olds' 'come' in "sex without love")
- meter
- rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem
- feet
- mertrical units by which poetry is measured
- iamb
- unstressed + stressed
- trochee
- stressed + unstressed
- anapest
- unstressed + unstressed + stressed
- dactyl
- stressed + unstressed + unstressed
- caesura
- pause within a line of poetry
- enjambment
- line in poetry unending and without punctuation that continues to the next line
- sonnets
-
14 lines, iambic pentameter
Shakespearean: 3 quatrains + 1 couplet
Italian: 1 octave + 1 sestel - open form
- poetry without adherence to specific patterns of rhyme, meter, stanza
- story vs. narrative discourse
- collection of all possible events that happen in a predetermined period of time VS. a version of a tale, selection and arrangement of various events during a pre-determined period (re-presentation)
- constituent vs. supplementary events
- events essential to the story's progression VS. "extras" in a fiction text; still important
- diegesis
- world of the text
- heterodiegetic
- narrator outside of text
- homodiegetic
- narrator closely involved in text
- Freytag's Pyramid
- exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion
- complication
- during rising action
- focalization
- the lens through which we see characters and events in the narrative; source to find sense of conflict
- theme
- may be abstract OR concrete
- motif
- concrete ONLY
- conflict
-
jumping-off point or source of textual interpretation
man vs: nature, man, self, society - flat vs. round characters
- few dimensions or complexities vs. many in a character
- agon
- the chief conflict that is the basis of the plot
- soliloquy
- a charcter alone on stage speaks in monologue; technique of informing audience of inner thoughts of character
- aside
- speech directed to audience or character that supposedly is not audible to other on stage at the time
- 3 unities of classical drama
- time, setting and action
- law of re-entry
- offstage time must be sufficiently long to conceivably complete task