Literary Terms
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sarahrakin on January 18, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 allegory | narrative thats an extended metaphor |
| allusion | reference |
| anapestic | meter pattern |
| aubade | poem about dawn |
| blank verse | poem that doesn't rhyme |
| climax | height of story |
| connotation | associations with a word |
| dactylic | meter pattern |
| David Copperfield | Dicken's character |
| denotation | real meaning of word |
| diction | how a word is said |
| dramatic irony | ironic, we know something character doesn't |
| edenic imagery | garden of eden imagery |
| Emerson | transcendentalist author |
| engfish | rambling language |
| enjambment | change in tempo, word rap |
| epiphany | character realizes something |
| faustian pact | sell soul to devil |
| figure of speech | not literal |
| modernism | WW1+ 2 literary movement, dislocation and isolation |
| speaker | telling a poem |
| structure | way a story is built |
| stream of consciousness | follow river of mind, like Holden |
| first person narrator | uses I, we |
| folio | pamphlet, what shakespeare wrote on |
| frame story | told from someone else |
| genre | type of literature |
| globe theater | where shakespeare's plays were performed |
| syntax | word order |
| groundlings | people on ground at globe theater |
| hyperbole | exaggerated comparison |
| Phaeton | sun of son god who breaks chariot |
| iambic | shape of unit (meter) |
| iambic pentameter | meter shakespeare used |
| image | picture |
| metaphor | indirect comparison |
| meter | how things sound, etc |
| motif | something reoccurring in a story |
| oxymoron | two things opposite, together |
| paradox | sentence thats an oxymoron |
| personification | giving human like characteristics to something not human |
| prologue | before a story, gives background |
| pun | funny, double meaning |
| rhyme | in poems |
| Rosaline | who romeo is initially in love with |
| setting | time and place |
| simile | direct comparison |
| situational irony | ironic situation |
| soliloquy | monologue revealing thoughts and feelings |
| narrator | someone who tells a story |
| stanislavski bit | meter |
| symbol | something that represents something else |
| theme | authors message |
| third person limited | uses he, only knows his thoughts |
| third person omniscient | uses he, knows everyones thoughts |
| tone | mood, vibe |
| trochaic | meter |
| unreliable narrator | not trustworthy narrator |
| voice | writing style |
| meter | mono- 1, di- 2, tri- 3, etc |
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