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typically complex style of writing, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil
seldom uses examples |
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adjective describing style, dry and theoretical writing
sucking life out of subject with analysis |
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| in poetry, refers to the stressed portion of a word |
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can be used as an adjective meaning "appealing to the senses"
artistic judgement
study of beauty |
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a story which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself
fables |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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a reference to another work or famous figure
topical allusion - current event
popular allusion - something of pop culture
classical allusion - famous older text |
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misplaced in time
probably comic
brutus having a wristwatch |
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| a comparison involving 2 or more symbolic parts and employed to clarify an action or relationship |
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| when an inanimate object is given human characteristics |
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| occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect |
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| a protagonist who is markedly unheroic, morally weak, cowardly, dishonest |
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| a short usually witty saying |
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| to use deliberately old-fashioned language |
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| a usually short speech/comment made by an actor to the audience |
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| the repeated use of vowel sounds "cole old soul" |
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| the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene |
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a long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme
typically has naive folksy quality, a characteristic that distinguishes it from epic poetry |
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pathos - scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy
bathos - writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every little hiccup |
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| use of disturbing themes in comedy |
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| pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language, when when tries to sound eloquent by using the largest most uncommon words |
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| in poetry, it uses deliberately harsh, awkward sounds |
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| the beat of rhythm of poetry in general sense |
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divides a poem like chapters in a novel
the name for a section division in a long work of poetry |
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| a portait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality |
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| refers to the cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences presented on stage |
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| in greek drama, the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it |
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- typical
- accepted masterpiece
- classical describes arts of ancient greece and rome |
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| a new word usually invented on the spot |
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| used in everyday conversational english that isn't part of schoolbook english |
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| refers to the startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed or expanded over several lines |
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connotation - every other meaning the word suggests or implies
denotation - word's literal meaning |
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repetition of consonant sounds within words
duck, sick, black |
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| pair of lines that end in rhyme |
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| character's speech must be styled according to her social station and with the occasion |
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diction - author's choice of words
syntax - author's ordering and structure of words |
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| refers to the grating of incompatible sounds |
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| a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious thoughtful manner |
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a type of poem that meditates on the death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner
often use the recent death of a noted person or loved one as a starting point |
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| a ver long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style |
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| lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place |
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a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh unpleasant or impolite reality
passed away for died |
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| when sounds blend harmoniously |
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extremely broad humor
(comedy used to apply to all plays in general and did not imply humor) |
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lines that rhyme by their final two syllables
running and gunning |
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| a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast |
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| basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry |
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| event or statement that suggests a larger event to come later |
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| poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern |
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| a sub-category of literature |
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showed up middle of the eighteenth century
mysterious, gloomy, sinister |
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| the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall |
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| exaggeration or deliberate overstatement |
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| in the midst of things (beginning the iliad 7 years into the trogan war) |
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| switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase, poetic license |
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| a statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean (thats sarcasm but ya know) |
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| a poem of sadness and grief over the death of a loved one or some intense loss |
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loose sentence
periodic sentence |
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loose - complete before its end
periodic - not grammatically complete until it reached its final phase |
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a type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world
for tone - it means sweet, emotional melodiousness |
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| a rhyme ending in the final stressed syllable (regular rhyme) |
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| cheesy theater in which the hero is very very good and the villain mean and rotten and the heroine pure |
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metaphor - a comparison, or analogy that states one thing is another
simile - uses like or as |
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| the protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty |
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objectivity - impersonal or outside view of events
subjectivity - interior or personal view of a single observer and is influenced by emotions |
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words that sound like what they mean
boom, splat, arrgh |
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a phrase composed of opposites, a contradiction
jumbo shrimp |
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| like a fable or an allegory, a parable is a story that instructs |
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a phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some commentary or added detail
blah blah, including sldfj, blah |
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| the work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness |
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| a poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds |
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| the narrator in a non first-person novel. in a third person novel, even though the author isn't a character, you get some idea of the author's personality. this isn't actually the author's personality, they just want to give you that impression. |
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| when an inanimate object takes on human shape |
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| poem or speech expressing sorrow |
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| this is a third person narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understands all the action going on |
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| limited omniscient narrator |
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| third person narrator who generally reports only what the other character (usually the main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character |
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| objective, camera eye narrator |
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| third person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera |
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narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view
called an unreliable narrator if the narrator is crazy, a liar, very young |
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| the stream of consciousness technique |
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| like first person, instead of the character telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all the characters thoughts as the scroll through her consciousness |
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| an introductory poem to a longer work of verse |
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| a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem |
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| a song of prayer for the dead |
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| an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of loe or praise |
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| a question that suggests an answer |
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satire exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor. attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behavior will become less common
hypocrisy, vanity, and greed |
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| a speech spoken by a character alone on stage, meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts. unlike an aside, a soliloquy is not meant to imply that the actor knows the audience is present |
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| a group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraph's function in prose |
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standard characters, cliched type
the drunk, the foolish girl |
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the demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination
also its the acceptance on an audience's part of the incidents of plot in a play or story
if there are too many coincidences or improbable occurrences, the viewer/reader can no longer suspend disbelief and subsequently loses interest |
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| the main proposition of an argument, the central contention that will be supported |
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| the weakness of character in an otherwise god individual that ultimately leads to his demise |
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| an idealized place, imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace. |
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