Terms : Hide Images
| 9174444909 | Catharsis | A "purgation"--a cleansing of emotions. Serves as a reminder of human frailty |  | 0 |
| 9174457040 | Chorus | Greek tragedies--group serves to comment on characters and events. Represents moral, social & relisious attitudes |  | 1 |
| 9174477182 | Closet Drama | Play that was meant to be read and not performed |  | 2 |
| 9174521396 | Desconstructionism | Approach to literature that suggests that literature does not have a single, fixed meaning because of the ambiguities of language. |  | 3 |
| 9174551111 | Escape literature | Literature that follows a set pattern (happy ending, entertains wide audience, sells well) & allows the reader to be removed from reality |  | 4 |
| 9174577631 | Marxist criticism | Approach to literature that focuses on ideological content--race, culture, class, and power. Aims to correct injustices. |  | 5 |
| 9174614673 | Melodrama | Relies on implausible events, emotion, & sensationalism for effect. |  | 6 |
| 9174634547 | Persona | The "mask" or speaker created by the author to tell a story or speak in a poem. Not a character, but a separate self. |  | 7 |
| 9174645717 | Recognition | The moment when previously unknown or withheld information is revealed, resulting in the discovery of truth or change. |  | 8 |
| 9174674405 | Sentimentality | Effort by an author to induce emotional responses in a reader that exceed what the situation warrants. |  | 9 |
| 9174693379 | Tragicomedy | Combines both tragedy & comedy.Plot is serious & fast-moving, may be a catastrophe. Ends happily from a reversal of circumstances. |  | 10 |
