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| An ____ style is typically complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points. |
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| When describing style, means dry and theoretical writing (when a piece of writing seems to be sucking all the life out of its 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." _____ judgment = artistic judgment. As a noun, an ______ is a coherent sense of taste. The plural noun, _______s, is the study of beauty. |
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| a story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. |
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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds. ("In other words, consonant clusters coming closely cramped and compressed--no coincidence.") |
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| A reference to another work or famous figure. A classical ______ is a reference to Greek or Roman mythology or literature such as The Iliad. A topical allusion refers to a current event. A popular allusion refers to something from popular culture. |
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| Derived from Greek; means "misplaced in time." Such as if an actor playing Brutus in a production of Julius Caesar forgets to take off his wrist-watch. |
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| a comparison. Usually involves two or more symbolic parts, and are employed to clarify an action or a relationship. |
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| The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. |
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| In literature, when inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification, but personification requires that the non-human quality or thing take on human shape. |
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| Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. Frequently comic. Sir, you snide manner a despicable arrogance have long been a source of disgust to me, but I've overlooked it until now. However, it has come to my attention that you have fallen so disgracefully deep into the mire of filth which is your mind as to attempt to besmirch my wife's honor and my good name. Sir, I challenge you to a game of badminton! |
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| In literature, when inanimate objects are given human characteristics, this term is at work. For example, In the forest, the darkness waited fro me, I could hear its pateient breathing . . . It is often confused with personification. But personification requires that the non-human quality or thing take on human shape. |
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| A protagonist (main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. |
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A short and usually witty saying, such as: "A classic? That's a book that people praise and don't read." --Mark Twain. |
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| A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. |
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| The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. Authors sometimes use them to create a feeling of antiquity. Tourist traps use them with a vengeance, as in "Ye Olde Candle Shoppe"--Yeech! |
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| A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. |
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| A trait or characteristic, as in "an ____ of the dew drop." |
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| The repeated use of vowel sounds, as in, "Old king Cole was a merry 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. It typically has a naive folksy quality, a characteristic that distinguishes it from epic poetry. |
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| When the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy, ____ is at work. When writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every little hiccup, that's ____. |
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| The use of disturbing themes in comedy. In Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, the two tramps, Didi and Gogo, comically debate over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of the tree will support their weight. |
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| Pretensious, exaggeratedly learned language. When one tries to be eloquent by using the largest, most uncommon words, one falls into ____. |
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| In poetry, ____ is deliberately harsh, awkward sounds. |
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| A ____ is a broad parody, one that takes a style or a form, such as tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness. A parody usually takes on a specific work, such as Hamlet. Interchangeable with parody. |
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| The beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense. For example, iambic pentameter is the technical name for a rhythm. One sample of predominantly iambic pentameter verse could have a gentle, pulsing ________, whereas another might have a conversational _______, and still another might have a vigorous, marching ______. |
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| The name for a section division in a long work of poetry. A ____ divides a long poem into parts the way chapters divide a novel. |
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| A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. |
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| A term drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. ____ refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived (vicariously) through he experiences presented on stage. |
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| In Greek drama, this is the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it.a |
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| Can mean typical, as in oh, that was a ____ blunder. It can also mean an accepted masterpiece, for example, Death of a Salesman. NOT referring to the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. |
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| A new word, usually one invented on the spot. |
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| A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "school-book" English. For example, I'm toasted. I'm a crispy-critter man, and now I've got this wicked headache. |
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| Two terms carry the similar meaning of suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words. There are subtleties and variations; there are multiple layers of interpretation the meaning both explicit and implicit. |
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| Conceit, Controlling Image |
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| Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines. When the image dominates and shapes the entire work, it's calling a ______. |
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| ______ is its literal meaning. ___ are everything else that the word suggest or implies. |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds within words. ([A flo(c)k of si(ck), bla(ck)-che(ck)ered duc(k)s] |
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A pair of lines that end in rhyme:
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged Chariot hurrying near. |
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| To observe ____, a character's speech must be styled according her social station, and in accordance with the occasion.... To observe social norms. |
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| The author's choice of words. Whether to use wept or cried is a question of ______. ___ refers to the ordering and structuring of the words. Whether to say, The pizza was smothered in cheese and perpperoni. I devoured it greedily, or Greedily, I devoured the cheese-and-pepperoni-smothered pizza, is a question of ____. |
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| A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, and melancholy. |
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| This refers to the grating of incompatible sounds. |
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| Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme. (Ex: limericks) |
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| When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. |
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| When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. |
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| A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. Elegies often use the recent death of a noted person or loved one as a starting point. They also memorialize specific dead people. |
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| The basic techniques of each genre of literature. (Chart in handout) |
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| The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. |
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| A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style. Deals with glorious or profound subject matter. |
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| Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. An _____ is usually a line or handful of lines often serious or religious, but sometimes witty and even irreverent. |
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| A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. The use of passed away for died, and let go for fired are two example. |
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| When sounds blend harmoniously, the opposite of cacophony. |
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| To say or write something directly and clearly (rare because literature's whole game is to be implicit) |
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| Today we use this word to refer to extremely broad humor. Writers of earlier times used it as a more neutral term, meaning simple a funny play; a comedy. |
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| Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. A pair of lines ending with running and gunning should be an example of feminine rhyme. Properly, in a _____ rhyme (not simply a double rhymes) the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed. |
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| Me, myself, and I, a personal narrator telling a tale from his/her perspective |
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| A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. For example, an author will often give a cynical, quick-witted character a docile, naive, sweet-tempered friend to serve as a ___. |
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| The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry. Formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed. |
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| An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later. |
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| Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. |
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| A sub-category of literature. Science-fiction and detective stories are _____s of fiction. |
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| Gothic is the sensibility derived from gothic novels. Dark, foreboding themes. |
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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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| To say or write something that suggest and implies, but never says it directly or clearly. |
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| This is a term for novels and poetry, not dramatic literature. It refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head. Relayed but not identical to stream of consciousness. Coherent as if actually talking. |
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