Introduction to Literature
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Shazaaam29x on February 23, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Symbol | unlocks meanings, implications, and consequences |
| Symbol | Creates direct meaningful equation between a specific object, scene, character, or action. |
| Symbol | Creates direct meaningful equation between ideas, values, persons, way of life |
| Symbol | Signifies multiple levels of meanings |
| Symbol | Example: the serpent-like staff of the dark figure in "Young Goodman Brown" symbolizes the dark figures connection with the devil |
| Allegory | a story with more than one level of meaning |
| Allegory | Example: Young Goodman Brown and Faith are literally a young couple faced with a series of decisions. Allegorically they represent the typical churchgoer and his struggle to keep his faith |
| Tone | an authors attitude toward their work |
| Tone | Example: Hawthorns attitude toward the church in "Young Goodman Brown" is critical and cynical regarding the ability to experience true, sincere faith in God and to be a genuine, regenerated Christan. |
| Biblical Position | The position on literature that believes that the Bible is the supreme literary model |
| Permissivist Position | The position on literature that allows for censurable elements in a work of compensating aesthetic qualities. |
| Pragmatist Position | The position on literature that considers some compromise is necessary to get along in a fallen world |
| Exclusivist Position | The position on literature that avoids every exposure to evil |
| Principle of Gratuitousness | The criterion that tests the purposeful representation of evil |
| Principle of Explicitness | The criterion that tests the acceptable degree of evil? |
| Principle of Moral Tone | The criterion that tests if evil is presented from a condemning perspective |
| Difference between the Bible and pagan mythology in "Truth or Fiction" | The Bible has a definitive, satisfying conclusion, but mythology does not. |
| inoculation analogy | the best view towards objectionable elements for the Christian |
| Creativity | The attribute of God's character that best reveals the significance of beauty as one of His attributes |
| the attribution of human properties to subhuman creatures | fantasy literature |
| fantasy literature | the attribution of miraculous or magical powers to humans or other agents |
| fantasy literature | the invention of creatures that do not exist in the real world |
| the primary antagonist toward literature in our culture | technology |
| God | the source of beauty |
| Patterns of the mono-myth | the seasons of the year the history of humanity the experience of the individual soul |
| willing suspension of disbelief | required of the reader to engage in fantasy literature |
| Allegory | a story with more than one level of meaning |
| Allusion | a reference within a literary work to another artistic work |
| Round | a type of character that is complex in personality and traits |
| Crisis | marks a plot's highest point of tension |
| Antagonist | The name of the force who opposes the main character |
| Flat | The type of character that is two dimensional |
| Motif | an idea or physical element that reoccurs throughout a work of literature |
| First Person | the point of view that the narrator tells about an event he or she has personally witnessed |
| Second Person | the point of view that is the basic method for communicating information |
| Third Person Omniscient | The point of view that the narrator sees and discloses all |
| "The Lottery" | This story was written to provoke anger to motivate self-analysis and change in society |
| Third Person Dramatic | The point of view that "The Lottery" was written from |
| castellated abbey | symbolized by the following: ill-placed faith in material possessions, the illusion of happiness, the inevitability of death |
| Marriage | Symbolized by a cage in "Jury of Her Peers" |
| Trait | a quality of mind or habitual mode of behavior that is evident in both positive and negative ways |
| double entendre | ambiguous verbal irony with double meaning |
| verbal irony | what is said seemingly contradicts what is meant |
| understatement | the expression does not fully describe the importance of the situation |
| hyperbole | the expression completely exaggerates the importance of the situation |
| High Formality | It is I |
| Neutral formality | It's me |
| Low formality | sup |
| Character | name a literary genre; it is a short, and usually witty, sketch in prose of a distinctive type of person |
| Comedy | a work in which the materials are selected and managed primarily in order to interest, involve, and amuse me |
| Epic | long, narrative poem on a serious subject, told in a formal and elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race |
| figurative language | departure from what users of the language apprehend as the standard meaning of words, or else the standard order of words, in order to achieve some special meaning or effect |
| metonymy | (a change of name); the literal term for one thing that is applied to another with which it is closely associated, because of contiguity in common experience |
| Prosopopeia | to make a person; an inanimate object or abstract concept is spoken as though it were endowed with life or with human attributes or feelings. |
| Onomatopoeia | designates a word or combination of words, whose sound seems to resemble closely the sound that it denotes |
| Pun | a play on words that are either identical in sound or very similar, but are sharply diverse in meaning |
| Satire | the literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation |
| Tragic hero | evokes pity and fear in the reader; character that suffers a change of fortune from happiness to misery because of a mistake, an act that he is led to by hamartia, also known as a tragic flaw; normally in classic literature, the tragic flaw is hubris (pride) |
| Imagery | mental pictures |
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