Course Terms
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- allegory
- a direct symbolic representation of some idea or situation in fictitious form; an extended metaphor
- catch 22
- a situation when a person is trapped betewen two contradictory conditionsirony
- irony
- when the opposite of what is expected occurs
- dramatis personae
- list of characters in a play
- witchhunt
- an intense search for members of a feared group, based on little or no violence
- dialect
- a varieety of language used by people form a particular geographic area
- voice
- a distinctive style or manner of expression in a written work
- hyperbole
- exxageration for effect, not meant to be taken literally (He's as strong as an ox)
- paradox
- a statement contracticotry to belief (The fish flied)
- alliteration
- repition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster (James jumped joyfully)
- consonance
- repetition of an initial sounds(click-clock)
- sensory detail
- a word or statement that appeals one of your 5 senses
- simile
- a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, and dissimilar thing by the use of like, as ,etc. (The boy was as fast as a leopard)
- chiasmus
- a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in (He went to the country, to the town went she.)
- repetition
- a doing or saying again, again, or again (The weather was cold, cold, and cold)
- diction
- word choice (The boring book)
- synesthesia
- process in which one type of stimulation produces a secondary, subjective sensation; as when some color evokes a certain smell (The color yellow can make the reader think of the taste of lemons.)
- assonance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds enclosed in different consonant sounds ("same" and "fade")
- metaphor
- a figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing w/o the use of the words "like", "as", "than", or "resembles" (The pillow was a cloud)
- aside
- words words spoken by an actor in such a way that they are heard by the audience but not by other actors
- cliche
- an expression or idea that has been used so much it is lacking freshness;a stereotype
- diacope
- uninteruppted repitition of a word or repetition w/ one or 2 words between each repeated phrase ("All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!")
- onomatopoeia
- the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meanings (moo, oink)
- personification
- a figure or speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person (cupid is the personification of love)
- pun
- a play on words
- analogy
- similarity in some respects between things otherswise unlike
- paranthesis
- an additional word, clauses, used to further explain
- parrallelism
- close resemblance, similarity
- rhyme
- a piece or poem in which there is a regular corresponding sounds
- anaphora
- rethorical device of repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences
- allusion
- reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing well known from lit, history, religion, pop culture, etc.
- synecdote
- a comparison between one subject and another, referencing, however, only a single attribute of the secondary subject (John seemed to sprout wings as he flew from the room)
- euphemism
- use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less offenive
- oxymoron
- figure or speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined
- sattire
- use of ridicule, sarcasm, irony
- symbol
- something that stands for, reperesents, or suggests another thing or idea
- symbolism
- in literature (art) when the author uses an otherwise neutral object/ action in a certain way to represent a larger idea or concept
- epiphany
- when something strikes you "aha! moment"
- first person narrator
- a storyteller that participates in the story. this can either be a minor character or a major character
- third person narrator
- a storyteller that does not participate in the story. there are three types of third-person narrators: ominician= all-knowing, limited omniscient= all-knowing about one character, objective= outside of characters
- intrusive narrator
- evaluates the character, judgmental
- impartial narrator
- remains neutral and leaves it to the reader to judge characters
- unreliable narrator
- many give false information or perceive things inaccurately
- naive narrator
- inability to interpret their experiences
- stream-of-consiousness
- narration of a character's mind, including his/her thoughts, conscious or not