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| Italian for "a little new thing"; a short tale in prose often characterized by moral teaching or satire |
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| denunciation of a person by the use of derogatory epithets; denunciatory or abusive expression or discourse |
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| invincible simplicity or obtuseness leads him to persist in putting an interpretation on affairs which the knowing reader just as persistently is called on to alter or correct |
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| a word or expression that in literal usage denotes one kind of thing is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing, without asserting a composition ("like" or "as") |
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| emotional tone pervading a section or the whole of a literary work, which fosters in the reader expectations as to the course of events |
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| statement in which the meaning that a speaker implies differs sharply from the meaning that is ostensibly expressed |
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| the individual whose physical configuration so conforms to a widely accepted notion of the standard human body that the normality of his or her body becomes transparent |
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| the range of secondary/associated significations and feelings which the word commonly suggests or implies |
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| the primary signification/reference of a word; the most specific or direct meaning of a word |
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| a device in literature; in Greek meant "the passions", or "suffering", or "deep feeling" generally as distinguished from a person's overall disposition or character |
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| brief work in prose fiction, and most of the terms analyzing the component elements, the types, and the various narrative techniques of a novel are applicable to the short story as well |
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| an account of personal experiences by an author |
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| signify all the objects and qualities of sense perception referred to in a work of literature, whether in description or in similes/metaphors |
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| frequent repetition within a single work of a significant verbal/musical phrase, set description, or complex ideas; also known as a “guiding motif" |
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| provides background information needed to understand the characters and/or the plot |
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| to signify a sudden sense of radiance and revelation that one may feel while perceiving a commonplace object; "manifestation"; "showing forth" |
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| the way a story gets told—the mode (or modes) established by an author means of which the reader is presented with the characters, dialogue, actions, setting, and events which constitute the narrative in a work of fiction |
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| the author, instead of using an occasional verbal irony, introduces a structural feature that serves to sustain a duplex meaning and evaluation throughout the work |
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| the expression of literary speaker's "attitude to his listener" |
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| used in order to better indicate that the reader of a work of fiction has the sense not only of the timbre and tone of a speaking voice, but of a total human presence; "ideal, literary, created version of the real man" |
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| Unreliable/Fallible Narrator |
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| one’s whose perception, interpretation, and evaluation of the matters he or she narrates do not coincide with the opinions and norms implied by the author, which the author expects the alert reader to share |
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| Discrimination in favour of able-bodied people; prejudice against or disregard of the needs of disabled people. |
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| from the Greek verb “to tear flesh”; ironic remark intended to be attacking; useful to restrict it only to the crude and taunting use of apparent praise for dispraise |
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| mere sequence of events in time |
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| events and actions rendered and ordered toward achieving particular artistic and emotional effects |
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| Mice and Men (whole story) |
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| Octavia from Brownies calling the white girls "retarded" and chihuahua |
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| Example of Naïve Hero/Narrator |
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| Scout as a narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird |
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| Jean-Dominique compares his paralysis to a diving bell. Being trapped in it. |
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| Example of Mood (Atmosphere) |
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| The tension in To Kill a Mockingbird waiting for the trial to reach a verdict. |
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| Slim's job as a skinner having a double meaning (being slick, not trustworthy) and (team player) |
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| The movie Murderball makes the viewer feel and care for the paraplegics (specific example: when team usa lost to canada and the emotion at the back with the family) |
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| Arnetta told Janice to say whatever she wants. (example because they dont actually care about what she says) |
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| The neighbor, Ms. Maudy, says Morphordite to Atticus first. Scout then repeats it and calls the Snowman a Morphordite. |
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| Breathing for a Living as a book |
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| The beginning and end scenery description of Mice and Men. Specifically, the image of the heron eating the snake from the water. |
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Fishes in Brownies
- the bathroom is like a whale
- Octavia killed a fish
- the "retarded" girls tongue looked like a fish |
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| When George mentions to Slim the incident between Lennie and a girl back in Weed. |
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| end of Brownies when Laurel realizes there is something evil in the world that was unstoppable (When her dad was mean to the Mennonites) |
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| Example of Structural Irony |
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The courthouse in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
-the original pillars
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these objects clash together. it isnt a balanced courthouse, symbolizing the imbalance of the justice system. |
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| Example of Implied Author |
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| In Of Mice and Men. The issues of the day about Eugenics (controlling of who reproduces for the improvement of humanity). The author expects the reader to know what hes talking about |
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| Example of Unreliable/Fallible Narrator |
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| In "Recitatif", when Twlya cant remember what happened to Maggie at St. Bonnie's. |
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| Gattaca world where people that were invalid were discriminated againist and did not have the same opportunities as the valid. |
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| Octavia talking about nature and camping ("Wow, this fell from a tree") |
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