Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Lit Terms 81-110

81) Narrative: a story or description of events


82) Narrator: one who narrates, or tells, a story


83) Naturalism: extreme form of realism


84) Novelette: short story; often satirical (not sure if it can be considered a short story)


85) Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person


86) Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning


87) Oxymoron: a figure of speech that has two contradicting words in a phrase to create rhetorical effect


88) Pacing: rate of movement; tempo


89) Parable: a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth


90) Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth


91) Parallelism: the principle that a sentence's structure ties into its function with a similar sentence


92) Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist


92) Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness


93) Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake


94) Personification: a figure of speech attributing inanimate objects with human qualities


95) Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose


96) Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation


97) Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary


98) Prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language


99) Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction


100) Pun: play on words:


101) Purpose: the intended result wished by an author:


102) Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it is


103) Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song


104) Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead


105) Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out


106) Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis (memes)


107) Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade


108) Rhetorical question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer


109) Rising Action: plot build up


110) Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact

 (Why is he up there? No one knows, why care, it's cool.)

Monday, February 4, 2013

First 25 Literary Terms: Remix

1. Analogy:  Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar



2. Analysis: the break of an idea into parts in order to analyze it

3. Anaphora: a use of words in repetition, at the beginning of sentences, phrases, etc.


4. Anecdote: a very short story used to make a point










5.  Antagonist: a character (kryptonite is almost placed as an evil character) put in a story with opposition against the protagonist
 

6. Antithesis: balancing a term for emphasis on a term


7. Aphorism: a statement expressing an clever observation about life


8. Apostrophe: a figure of speech where a dead person, or something inanimate is addressed


9. Argument(ation): the process of persuading a reader


10. Assumption: the act of taking for granted


11. Audience: the intended for listeners


12. Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character's personality


13. Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order


14. Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but few would have served


15. Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of an ancient civilization









16. Cliche: a phrase, or fad which is overused


17. Climax: the decisive point in a story


18. Colloquialism: folksy speech


19. Comedy: original, nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending


20. Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension


21. Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition


22. Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity


23. Denotation: plain dictionary definition


24. Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax


25. Dialect: the language of a particular district, or cultural group