Abrahamson Final Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| archetype | A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras. |
| allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event |
| ambiguity | an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context |
| analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect |
| antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story |
| aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |
| apostrophe | a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. |
| attitude | the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| climax | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
| comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending |
| conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) |
| connotations | something implied or suggested |
| denouement | the outcome of a complex sequence of events |
| detail | an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole |
| dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people |
| dialogue | a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people |
| diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words |
| enigmatic | not clear to the understanding |
| epilogue | a short passage added at the end of a literary work |
| epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight |
| exposition | introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
| figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning |
| flashback | a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story |
| free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| imagery | description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| metaphore | compares 2 things as if they were the same WITHOUT the words "like" or "as" |
| monologue | a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor |
| octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| omniscient | all-knowing, infinitely wise |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') |
| paradox | (logic) a self-contradiction |
| pathos | a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) |
| personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. |
| plot | the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc. |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| protaganist | the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work |
| rhyme | be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable |
| romance | an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) |
| satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| setting | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections |
| sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| stereotype | a generalized belief about a group of people |
| stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience |
| suspense | excited anticipation of an approaching climax |
| symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
| theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| tragedy | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune |
| tragic hero | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy |
| DIDLS | Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, Sentence structure |
| TPCASTT | a method for poem analysis; Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title revisited, Theme |
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