AP lang and comp week five
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manningNYG on October 30, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 conflict | The struggle between opposing forces that determines the action in drama and most narrative fiction |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing to emphasize a characteristic quality or attribute |
| farce | A light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirica comedy and improbably plot |
| flashback | in fiction and film, a way of presenting scences or incidents that took place before the opening scene |
| foreshadowing | in literature, the technique of giving hints or clues that suggestor prepare for events that occur later in the work |
| gothic | barbaric; from the middle ages |
| hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence |
| imagery | The making of "pictures in word'" appeals to the senses of taste, smell, heaing, and touch, and to internal feeling, as well as to the sese of sight. |
| irony | incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result |
| local color | the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants in writing |
| metonymy | A figure or speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |
| naturalism | realism in art or literature; a theory of practice in literature emphasizing scientific observation of life without dealization and often including elements of determinism |
| non sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly reltated to anything previously said |
| novella | work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| picaresque novel | A term usually applied to a novel whose principal character is low-brow rogue who lives by his or her wits and who becomes involvedin one predicament after another |
| renaissance | the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, |
| romanticism | a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions |
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