6059794604 | bildungsroman | A coming of age story *Catcher in the Rye *Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man | 0 | |
6059797160 | kunstlerroman | coming-of-age/ development of an artist *Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man | 1 | |
6059825475 | epigraph | a short passage, usually from another work. Used to introduce a book/chapter *Portrait/metamorphoses | 2 | |
6059825476 | chiasmus | rhetorical device consisting of juxtaposed clauses with opposite structures "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country" - John F. Kennedy "fair is foul and foul is fair" -Macbeth by Shakespeare | 3 | |
6059825477 | stream of consciousness | style that follows the patterns of a character (or author) sometimes going on tangents | 4 | |
6059828337 | free indirect discourse | always 3rd person type of narration that uses third person perspective, but flows into and out of a character's mind and surroundings. | 5 | |
6059828338 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 6 | |
6059828339 | non sequitur | "it does not follow" conclusion that is not aligned with previous premises or evidence | 7 | |
6059829495 | ellipsis | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues | 8 | |
6059829494 | malapropism | using an incorrect word in place of one that is similar in pronunciation. | 9 | |
6059829496 | apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified) | 10 | |
6059831441 | internal rhyme | Rhyme within a single line of poetry Usually last word & one in the middle | 11 | |
6059831442 | end rhyme | rhyme at end of sentence - masculine vs. feminine (stressed/unstressed) - double vs. triple vs. single (# of syllables that rhyme) | 12 | |
6059833019 | pathetic fallacy | type of personification that attributes feeling/emotions to nature (specifically weather, seasons, or landscape). Used to mirror emotions/events in a character's experience | 13 | |
6059834400 | synecdoche | term for a part of something refers to the whole of something "all hands on deck" | 14 | |
6060241059 | syndeton | sentence style in which words, phrases, or clauses are joined by conjunctions (usually and). | 15 | |
6060239642 | asyndeton | stylistic device used in literature and poetry, intentionally eliminates conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. | 16 | |
6060241060 | aposiopesis | suddenly breaking off in speech | 17 | |
6059835801 | metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated "crown" for power | 18 | |
6059845137 | perfect rhyme | sounds match exactly (stereotypical) | 19 | |
6059845138 | eye rhyme | words look like they rhyme; sounds don't match | 20 | |
6059846476 | half/off/slant/imperfect rhyme | close to rhyming, but sounds don't match perfectly (love/move, falling/filling, red/rid) | 21 | |
6059848085 | end-stopped lines | lines come to a full stop, marked by punctuation -emphasize rhyme scheme -slow pace of poem -sounds "choppy" to mirror content | 22 | |
6059849593 | enjambed lines | lines are connected, or NOT stopped at the end. -de-emphasizes rhyme -speeds pace of the poem | 23 | |
6059849594 | caesura | a pause within a line of poetry | 24 | |
6059921623 | sestina | a poem w/ 7 stanzas; 6 ending words are organized in a specific structure | 25 | |
6125545603 | epistolary (novel) | adj. made up of letters | 26 | |
6125545604 | epistle | n. letter | 27 | |
6136676396 | in medias res | Latin phrase: "In the middle of things" Story that begins in the midst of action rather than "once upon a time" | 28 | |
6157952523 | colloquialism | single instance (colloquial language is a pattern) Regional, local dialects (cultural/ethnic groups, generational) | 29 | |
6192178467 | telegraphic sentence | Sentence with 5- words "Perfectly so- I thank you." | 30 | |
6314897349 | trope | 1. from Greek: "a turn" figurative use of language -dependent on a comparison or a transference of qualities (personification, simile, metonymy, pathetic fallacy) 2. contrast between 2 levels of meaning (irony, understatement, paradox, pun, hyperbole) | 31 | |
6360533120 | explicate | (n. explication) analyze, especially a poem, in detail, *focusing on how the form (rhyme, meter, fiction, fig Lang, etc.) connects to the poem's meaning* | 32 | |
6378571197 | hamartia | from Greek: "fault" or "failure" Misguided *action* or ignorance of the true situation that caused hero's downfall (how they behave) | 33 | |
6378571198 | hubris | excessive pride causes a character's downfall | 34 |
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