Williamson, Ideas in Literature, 1E - Unit 2

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Bias
The assumptions, attitudes, values, and other (often unexamined) factors that shape a character's perspective.
Values
An idea, attitude, or belief about the human condition, often illustrated by a character or setting in a literary work.
Speaker
The voice that narrates a poem and builds connections between the reader and the text.
Perspective
The lens through which a person makes sense of their experiences and circumstances.
Shift
A change in character's thinking, insight, or another literary choice that creates an emphasis or reveals an insight.
Contrast
The opposition of two literary elements or events of plot, usually presented to highlight the differences between them.
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem set apart from other lines and groups by spacing or indentation.
Juxtaposition
A literary technique that places two people, events, or places side by side to compare, contrast, or illuminate the relationship between them.
Referent
The person, place, thing, concept, or action that a word denotes or stands for.
Antecedent action
The events that have occurred prior to the beginning of a story or play.
Refrain
A recurring or repeating words, sounds, phrases, clauses, or lines in texts to create emphasis or to suggest associations.
Synonym
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase.
Alliteration
A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of consecutive or closely placed words in a text.
Pronoun
A word that replaces a previously identified noun, noun phrase, or __________ within a sentence.
Repetition
The deliberate and repeated use of a word, phrase, sentence, or other element to create emphasis or another effect.
Figurative language
A comparison or association (e.g., analogy, symbol, metaphor, simile, personification) that draws upon concrete objects to represent abstract ideas.
Comparison
A literary and rhetorical device that uses similarities between people, places, things, and/or ideas to help the reader recognize figurative meaning or an abstract concept.
Simile
A comparison that uses words such as "like" or "as" to make an explicit comparison between two objects or concepts.
Metaphor
A comparison of two unrelated objects that assigns ideas to their points of comparison.
Association
A relationship between the reader and the text when the reader recognizes the connotations and implications of words or the figurative meaning of objects.
Conflict
The problem, question, opposition, or tension in a play or story that the protagonist faces.
Resolution
The section of the plot where the conflict is solved and important questions are answered.
Tension
A component of a dramatic situation that present a struggle or conflict of values or ideas resulting from a dilemma choice, or competing circumstances.
Word choice
The decisions an author makes when determining the language and usage of words.
Image
A literary device that appeals to the reader's senses and sensory experiences, especially the creation of visual pictures in the minds of the audience.
Tone
The attitude of the author, narrator, or speaker toward the subject, characters, or setting of a literary work, as revealed through diction, syntax, and other stylistic choices.
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