ABCD



|| ||  ||  ||  ||  || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||   || ||   ||  ||   ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.12 PM.png link="@Literary Terms A"]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.18 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.25 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Aestheticism__: the disposition that regards beauty as an end in itself.==
 * ==__Affective__: the ability to create an emotional response in the reader==
 * ==__Allegory__: a story with a hidden meaning beneath its surface.==
 * ==__Alliteration__: repetition of beginning sounds==
 * ==__Allusion__: reference to another event, person, place, or work==
 * ==__Anachronism__: the portrayal of a character as existing--or some event as taking place--at some time other than when it really did==
 * ==__Analogy__: illustrating one idea through a parallel and familiar idea==
 * ==__Analysis__: a systematic investigation by looking at its parts==
 * ==__Anecdote__: short story about a specific incident==
 * ==__Annotation__: marking up the text with notes and highlighting==
 * ==__Anthropomorphism__: endowment of animals with the ability to have human thoughts and emotions==
 * ==Antihero: a protagonist who is unlikable, yet you support nonetheless==
 * ==__Apostrophe__: figurative language in which a person absent or dead is addressed as if alive and present==
 * ==__Archetype__: a symbol, theme, setting, or character-type that recurs in literature==
 * ==__Assonance__: repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line==
 * ==__Atmosphere__: a work's dominant mood==
 * ==__Authorial Intrusion__: the author steps out of the story and addresses the reader (ex. Frank Underhill in //House of Cards//)== ||  || * ==__Ballad__: a fairly short narrative poem written in a song-like form==
 * ==__Bathos__: the effect when a writer describes the emotions of a tragic situation with exaggeration that it loses its tragic tone and becomes melodramatic or comic==
 * ==__Bildungsroman__: coming of age type novel or work that follows a hero from youth to adulthood on an identity quest.==
 * ==__Blank Verse__: unrhymed iambic pentameter==
 * ==__Broader Significance__: the big idea or universal meaning==
 * ==__Burlesque__: a kind of parody that ridicules some serious work by treating the solemn subject in an undignified way or a trivial subject with seriousness.== ||  || * ==__Caesura__: a grammatical pause placed in the middle of a line of verse==
 * ==__Canon__: the core works of literature that are commonly taught and written about==
 * ==__Climax__: the turning point when tension is at its hightest==
 * ==__Coherence__: all elements are used to contribute to the author's purpose==
 * ==__Comic Relief__: insertion of a comic scene within a tragedy or serious work to temporarily release tension==
 * ==__Conceit__: an extended metaphor; often far-fetched and elaborate==
 * ==__Conflict__: the struggle between two or more contrary forces that generally is at the heart of the plot==
 * ==__Connotation__: what a word suggests beyond its literal meaning==
 * ==__Consonance__: repetition of consonant sounds in close intervals==
 * ==__Conventions__: an established practice--technique, style, structure, subject matter==
 * ==__Crisis__: a point in which the tension is high because a character is forced to make an important decision==
 * ==__Crot__: one of the short, discrete sections of text separated by white space (sometimes asterisks) that form the type of story sometimes called a //narrative collage//.== ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.31 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.37 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.42 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Dead metaphor__: cliche or used so often it has become part of the image and is the only meaning the reader can appreciate (//windbag// or dog-eat-dog)==
 * __ **Denotation** __ **: basic definition meaning**
 * ==__Denouement__: after the climax when the story's main problems are solved and loose ends are tied up==
 * ==__Deus ex Machina__: "god from a machine" or an implausible or contrived ending==
 * ==__Dialect__: distinctive habits of speech used by a particular race, class, or regional group (//y'all, themther, wernt//)==
 * ==__Dialogue__: the conversation among characters==
 * ==__Diction__: choice of words==
 * ==__Didactic__: preachy or instructive tone==
 * ==__Doppelganger__: "double" or someone whose appearance or behavior seems oddly like that of the protagonist==
 * ==__Dramatic Situation__: circumstances of the speaker in a poem==
 * ==__Dramatic Monologue__: a lyric poem in which the speaker tells the audience about a dramatic moment in his/her life==
 * ==__Dynamic Character__: a changing or kinetic character who changes in some important internal way== ||  || * ==__Elegy__: mournful or melancholy poem (usually a lament for the dead)==
 * ==__Emblamatic Name__: names that are significant because they make a serious, literal statement about a character's values or nature (Granny //Weatherall// or Willy //Loman//)==
 * ==__End Rhyme__: rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines==
 * ==__Enjambment__: the continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet to the next==
 * ==__Epic Poetry__: a long poem that tells of adventure using a dignified tone and including a hero==
 * ==__Epigram__: a short, pithy, humorous saying presented as a general truth==
 * ==__Epigraph__: the inscription on the title page of a book (sometimes a quotation) to call attention to the theme==
 * ==__Epilogue__: a summing-up statement at the end in which the reader learns what happens after the books's conclusion==
 * ==__Epiphany__: sudden moment of insight when a character discovers an important truth==
 * ==__Epistolary__: novel written in the form of letters==
 * __ **Epithet** __ **: a descriptive expression like "Honest Abe" or "Catherine the Great" or "wine-stained sea"**
 * ==__Euphemism__: the use of a mild or indirect expression (ex. "pass away")==
 * ==__Explication__: a line-by-line commentary of text as a comprehensive treatment or form of analysis==
 * ==__Exposition__: details, usually in summary form, that give the reader background knowledge to understand the story==
 * ==__Eye Dialect__: an author's misspelling of a word to indicate it is being spoken by an ignorant or non-native person (she would //sivilize// me)== ||  || * ==__Fable__: a short tale told to illustrate a moral==
 * ==__Farce__: low comedy that includes bizarre coincidences, slapstick, absurdities, and puns==
 * __ **Feminine Rhyme** __ **: a rhyme on two syllables, the first stressed and the second unstressed.**
 * ==__First-person Point of View__: Participant narrator of the "I." Often flawed, unreliable, naive==
 * ==__Flashback__: information included that occurred before the opening of the story==
 * ==__Flashforward__: a sudden movement in a story from the present to the future where the narrator reveals an event that has not yet occurred==
 * ==__Flat Character__: a character who only possesses a single quality or trait and whose personality can be summed up in a single sentence==
 * ==__Foot__: a unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables==
 * ==__Foreshadowing__: a hint of some important future event==
 * ==__Form__: the shape of the story (moves from problem to solution)==
 * ==__Fragrant Character__: a character who seldom appears but exerts a great influence on other characters and the plot==
 * ==__Frame Story__: story within story==
 * ==__Free Verse__: unrhymed lines without regular rhythm== ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.46.47 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.50.41 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.50.48 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Genre__: a type, species, or class of literature==
 * ==__Gothic__: a story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy castle and associated with the 18th century and the supernatural== ||  || * ==__Haiku__: a three-line poem (5-7-5 syllables)==
 * ==__Half Rhyme__: imperfect or approximate rhyme (sometimes called a slant rhyme)==
 * ==__Hamartia__: Greek word for error or failure to designate the false step that leads the hero to his downfall.==
 * ==__Harlem Renaissance__: notable phase of black American writing centered in Harlem in the 1920's==
 * ==__Hemistich__: dialogue in which characters exchange short utterances (see stichomythia)==
 * ==__Hendiadys__: figure of speech in which a single idea uses two nouns with a conjunction (ex. house and home or Law and Order).==
 * ==__Hero/Heroine__: main character or protagonist who possesses admirable courage or nobility==
 * ==__Heroic Couplet__: a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines==
 * ==__Homily__: a sermon or morally instructive lecture==
 * ==__Homonym__: a word that is identical in form --either in sound or spelling or both--but different in meaning==
 * ==__Hubris__: insolence or affront. Excessive pride==
 * ==__Hyperbole__: an overstatement or exaggeration (ex. I'm starving!)== ||  || * ==__Iambic Pentameter__: English poetry consisting of 5 iambic feet in each line==
 * ==__Idiom__: any style of writing that is characteristic of a particular group or movement (on the wagon, flat broke)==
 * ==__Idyll__: a short poem describing an incident of country life in terms of idealized innocence and contentment==
 * ==__Imagery__: description appealing to the senses==
 * ==__in medias res__: middle of things==
 * ==__Interior Monologue__: written expression of a character's thoughts, impressions, and memories as if directly "overheard" (i.e. stream of consciousness)==
 * ==__Internal Rhyme__: rhyme contained within a line of verse==
 * ==Incantation: the chanting or reciting of any form of words deemed to have magical powe==
 * ==__Interpretation__: the process of discovering meaning by examining details==
 * ==__Invective__: the harsh denunciation of some person or thing in abusive speech or writing==
 * ==__Invocation__: an appeal made by a poet to a muse for help in composing a poem==
 * ==__Irony__: contrast between actual and suggested meaning== ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.50.54 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.51.01 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.51.06 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Jingle__: brief set of verses with a strong, repetitive rhyme== ||  || * ==__Kenning__: Old English phrase in which there is verbosity in place of a more familiar word (bonehouse for body or sea-wood for ship)== ||   || * ==__Lampoon__: a malicious attack, intended to be humorous, on a famous person or piece of literature==
 * ==__Legend__: stories handed down through oral tradition--usually exaggerated or unreliable account==
 * ==__Lexis__: term used in linguistics to designate the total vocabulary of a language or text==
 * ==__Limerick__: a self-contained humorous poem playing on rhymes involving the names of people or places==
 * ==__Limited Omniscience__: third person point of view in which the narrator can see into the minds of fewer than 100% of the characters. Most commonly limited omniscience characters can see into the mind of just one character==
 * ==__Litany__: a kind of prayer consisting of a long sequence of chanted and supplications and responses==
 * __ **Litotes** __ **: an affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite. "I don't dislike you."**
 * ==__Local Color__: fiction whose main concentration is on showing unusual customs, dress, habits, and speech patterns of ordinary people from a particular region (often isolated, rural)==
 * ==__Lyric Poetry__: poetry with a lyrical or song-like quality which reveals a poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single impression.== ||  ||
 * ==__Lyric Poetry__: poetry with a lyrical or song-like quality which reveals a poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single impression.== ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.51.13 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.51.18 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.12 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Malapropism__: a confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words==
 * __ **Masculine Rhyme** __ **: only the last, accented syllable of the rhyming words correspond in sound.**
 * ==__Maxim__: a short and memorable statement of a general principle==
 * ==__Medium__: the material or technical process employed in an art or a communication==
 * ==__Meiosis__: understatement; saying less than one means or with less force: Tis but a scratch==
 * ==__Melodrama__: sensational drama that flourished in the 19th century==
 * ==__Metafiction__: fiction about fiction; a kind of fiction that openly comments on its own fictional status==
 * ==__Metaphor__: a direct comparison of two unlike objects==
 * ==__Metaphysical__: ingenious use of intellectual and theological concepts in surprising conceits, strange paradoxes, and far-fetched imagery==
 * ==__Meter__: regularized rhythm--in which the accents occur at equal intervals==
 * ==__Metonymy__: some significant aspect or detail is used to represent the whole: An update from the White House indicates the bill has failed.==
 * ==__Mimesis__: the Greek word for imitation. A literary work that is understood to be reproducing an external reality==
 * ==__Minimalism__: a style based on the extreme restriction of a work's contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements, normally within a short form==
 * ==__Miracle Play__: a medieval religious play==
 * ==__Mock Epic__: poem employing epic conventions to describe trivial events==
 * ==__Mode__: form or genre==
 * ==__Monologue__: extended speech by one speaker==
 * ==__Mood__: same as atmosphere-describes the stories ambiance==
 * ==__Morality Play__: religious plays are dramatized allegories in which personified virtues, vices, diseases, and temptations struggle for the soul of man==
 * ==__Morphology__: linguistic study of the structure of words==
 * ==__Motif__: a recurrent device, formula, or situation that connects with a common pattern of existing thought==
 * ==__Motivation__: the reasons why a character does something==
 * ==__Muse__: source of poet's inspiration==
 * ==__Mystery Play__: medieval religious drama of a scene from the Old or New Testament==
 * ==__Myth__: narrative shared by members of a given people and usually explain the origins of human and natural phenomenon== ||  || * ==__Narrative__: true or fictitious event or connected sequence or events==
 * ==__Narrator__: person telling the story==
 * ==__Naturalism__: a deliberate kind of realism involving a view of human beings as passive victims of natural forces and social environment==
 * ==__Nemesis__: retribution or punishment for wrongdoing or the agent carrying out the punishment==
 * ==__Neologism__: a word or phrase newly invented and introduced into language==
 * ==__nom de plum__: pen name==
 * ==__Novel__: extended fictional prose==
 * ==__Novella__: Intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and novel== ||  || * ==__Objective Correlative__: invented by T.S. Eliot to describe the use of specific, concrete images or patterns of images to express an abstract idea so that a certain emotion is immediately invoked without the emotion ever being named.==
 * ==__Objective Narrator__: third person camera view. Reader must interpret character feelings and thoughts==
 * __ **Ode** __ **: lyric verse with a dignified theme**
 * ==__Omniscient__: All knowing==
 * ==__Onomatopoeia__: words mimic their meaning in sound: splish splash==
 * ==__Oxymoron__: contradictory terms brought together: Jumbo shrimp== ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.20 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.28 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.34 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Palindrome__: a word that remains the same if read backwards==
 * ==__Parable__: a brief tale illustrating a moral or lesson==
 * ==__Paradox__: A seeming contradiction that is in fact true: "I can resist anything but temptation" Oscar Wilde==
 * ==__Parallelism__: similarly constructed clauses or sentences==
 * ==__Paraphrase__: restatement in own words to clarify==
 * ==__Paratactic__: the juxtaposition of clauses or sentences, without connecting words (I'll go; you stay) for the effect of abruptness==
 * ==__Parody__: mocking imitation of the style of a work==
 * ==__Pastoral__: a play or poem dealing with country life==
 * ==__Pathos__: appealing to sorrow, pity, or sympathy==
 * ==__Peripeteia__: a sudden reversal of circumstances==
 * ==__Persona__: "mask" or the speaker of a work==
 * ==__Personification__: objects and animals are given human qualities==
 * ==__Plot__: pattern of events or situations in a narrative or dramatic work==
 * ==__Point of View__: the vantage point from which the story is told==
 * ==__Portmanteau Word__: a word concocted by fusing two words together into one (brunch from breakfast and lunch)==
 * ==__Postmodernism__: during the second half of the 20th century with disorienting techniques and alienated moods and themes of abandonment==
 * ==__Prolepsis__: Greek for "anticipation." A figure of speech in which a description is given before it becomes applicable (i.e. Hamlet, after wounded, says, "I am dead, Horatio.")==
 * ==__Prologue__: an introductory section==
 * ==__Prose__: written language that is not organized according to formal patterns of verse==
 * ==__Prosody__: the systematic study of meter and rhyme or scansion==
 * ==__Protagonist__: chief character of the story==
 * ==__Pun__: a play on words== ||  || * ==__Quatrain__: a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed.==
 * ==__Quintain__ or __Quintet__: a verse stanza of five lines== ||  || * ==__Realism__: a mode of writing that gives the impression the actual way of life==
 * ==__Refrain__: a line or group of lines repeated at regular intervals==
 * ==__Revenge Tragedy__: action is typically centerd on the attempt to avenge the murder of a loved one--sometimes at the prompting of a ghost==
 * ==__Rhetoric__: the art of language for persuasive effect==
 * ==__Rhyme__: repetition of accented sound==
 * ==__Romanticism__: emphasis on freedom of the individual, self-expression, sincerity, spontaneity, and originality== ||  ||
 * ==__Romanticism__: emphasis on freedom of the individual, self-expression, sincerity, spontaneity, and originality== ||  ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.38 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.43 PM.png]] ||   || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.54.48 PM.png]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Saga__: story of heroic leaders with an emphasis on feuds and family histories==
 * ==__Satire__: writing that exposes the foibles of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule or scorn==
 * ==__Scansion__: marking off of lines of poetry into feet (scanning)==
 * ==__Scenario__: a brief outline of the plot, characters, and scene changes of a play==
 * ==__Scene__: a subdivision of an act or of a play not divided into acts==
 * ==__Semantics__: linguistic study of meanings in language (meaning as opposed to form)==
 * ==__Simile__: direct comparison using "like" or "as"==
 * ==__Soliloquy__: dramatic speech while alone on stage to reveal inner thoughts and feelings==
 * ==__Sonnet__: a lyric poem of 14 lines of equal length==
 * ==Spoonerism: a phrase in which the initial consonants of two words have been swapped to create an amusing expression (//hissed my mystery lectures// instead of //missed my history lectures//)==
 * ==__Stanza__: one of the divisions of a poem==
 * ==S__tichomythia__: cut and thrust dialogue==
 * ==__Stock Character__: a stereoytped character easily recognized by readers from recurrent appearances in literature==
 * ==__Stream of Consciousness__: the continuous flow of thoughts, feelings, and memories==
 * ==__Stress__: the relative emphasis given in pronunciation to a syllable==
 * ==__Strophe__: stanza or any less regular subdivision of a poem; opening secion of a Greek choral ode.==
 * ==__Structure__: the organization of the work==
 * ==__Style__: the manner of expression, evident by choice of words, sentence structure, characters, settings, and themes==
 * ==__Surrealism__: an anti-rational movement of imaginative liberation in art and literature from 1920s-1930s==
 * ==Syllepsis: a construction in which one word (usually a verb or preposition) is applied to two other words or phrases, either ungrammatically or in two differing senses (//he works his work, I mine// or //she went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair//)==
 * ==__Symbolism__: the use of one object to suggest another, hidden idea==
 * ==__Synaesthesia__: a blending of different kinds of sense-impression (//smooth sounds// or //loud colors//)==
 * ==__Synchronic__: concerned only with the state of something at a given time rather than with its historical development==
 * ==__Synecdoche__: a part is used for the whole: //The redhead is always talking// or //All hands on deck//==
 * __ **Syntax** __ **: the way words and phrases are put together to form sentences**
 * ==__Synthesis__: any compound produced by uniting two or more elements== ||  || * ==__Tableau__: a "picture" formed by living persons caught in static postures or where people adopt the postures of characters in a famous painting==
 * ==__Theme__: the author's meaning or main idea==
 * ==__Third-person Narration__: the narrator is not a character within the events but stands outside the events==
 * ==__Threnody__: a dirge or lament for the dead==
 * ==__Tone__: the author's attitude toward the subject==
 * ==__Topos__: an older term for a motif or stock device==
 * ==__Tragedy__: a serious play representing the downfall of a hero==
 * ==__Tragic Flaw__: the defect of character that brings about the protagonist's downfall==
 * ==__Tragicomedy__: a play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy, either by producing a happy ending to a tragic story or a blending of serious and light moods==
 * ==__Trope__: a figure of speech, especially on that uses words in senses beyond their literal meanings (//metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, personification, hyperbole, litotes, periphrasis//)==
 * ==__Type__: a fictional character who stands as a representative of some identifiable class or group of people (//stereotype// or //stock character//)== ||  || * ==__Unity__: creates a single effect and has a single aim or purpose==
 * ==__Universal__: a work that transcends the ideology of the author and reader as a test of the work's quality==
 * ==__Unreliable Narrator__: account may appear faulty, misleading, distorted or biased== ||  ||
 * ==__Universal__: a work that transcends the ideology of the author and reader as a test of the work's quality==
 * ==__Unreliable Narrator__: account may appear faulty, misleading, distorted or biased== ||  ||
 * [[image:V.PNG]] ||  || [[image:w.PNG]] ||   || [[image:x.PNG]] ||   ||
 * * ==__Versimilitude__: the semblance of truth or reality in literary works or the literary principle that requires a consistent illusion of truth to life==
 * ==__Vernacular__: the local language or dialect of common speech==
 * ==__Verse__: poetry as distinct from prose==
 * ==__Vignette__: any brief composition or self-contained passage, or short story==
 * ==__Voice__: a vague term used to refer to distinctive features of a written work in terms of spoken lines from the narrator or speaker and assessed in terms of tone, style, or personality== ||  || * ==__Wit__: verbal ingenuity, cleverness, or quickness== ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.57.32 PM.png]] ||  || [[image:Screen Shot 2016-12-26 at 8.57.37 PM.png]] ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || * ==Zeugma: figure of speech in which one word refers to two others in the same sentence (//lost his coat and his temper// or //his boat and his dreams sank//)== ||   ||   ||   ||