LITERATURE Flashcards

8259252435	Protagonist	The central character of a narrative, the character through whom the lesson of the story is learned.	0
8259361035	George Orwell	1984	1
8259252436	Simile	A comparison of two items using "like" or "as."	2
8259375261	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	3
8259252437	Point of View	The vantage point from which a story is told (first and third person).	4
8259394132	J. D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	5
8259252438	Connotation	Another significant meaning of a word, often steeped in symbol or feeling.	6
8259403977	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	7
8259252439	Characterization	The manner by which an author develops a character within a narrative.	8
8259415553	Mark Twain	Adventure of Huckleberry Finn	9
8259252440	Dialogue	The spoken words of two or more character within a narrative.	10
8259436285	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	11
8259252441	Imagery	The picture in your mind that the words from the page create; can be figurative, symbolic, or literal.	12
8259444539	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	13
8259252442	Situational Irony	An EVENT where the opposite of what's expected happens.	14
8259462355	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	15
8259252443	Dramatic Irony	When the reader or audience knows something a character does not know, and that knowledge in important to the flow of events.	16
8259471805	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	17
8259252444	Ego	Represents and enforces principle reality. Oriented towards perceptions in the real world and associated with reason and sanity.	18
8259477172	Homer	The Iliad	19
8259252445	Historical Fiction	A narrative which tells the story of a real moment in history but embellishes it at least slightly (factual, dated).	20
8259484753	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	21
8259252446	Theme	The main idea of a work of literature; the message is the author sending to the reader.	22
8259492045	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	23
8259252447	Paradigm	A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.	24
8259499663	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Crime and Punishment	25
8259252448	Dialect	A regional variety of language, often with distinct accents and usage, including but not limited to whole phrases.	26
8259511396	Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	27
8259252449	Oedipus Complex	A psychological aspect where a child, usually male, has strong, even desirous feelings for the parent of the opposite sex.	28
8259527647	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	29
8259252450	Denotation	The EXPLICIT meaning of a word or a particular meaning of a symbol.	30
8259533799	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	31
8259252451	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature or to a part of another work of literature or to a moment in history.	32
8259556701	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales	33
8259252452	Conflict	The struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature, which the story is built around- The forces are the protagonist and the antagonist.	34
8259577931	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	35
8259252453	Setting	The time and the place of the action of the story.	36
8259584676	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	37
8259252454	Catharsis	The releasing of certain emotions in the audience: a feeling of pity and hatred for the actions of the tragic hero.	38
8259593676	John Steinbeck	East of Eden	39
8259252455	Act	A division within the drama, usually seen as the "chapter" of a novel.	40
8259604155	Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	41
8259252456	Autobiography	A truthful account of the life of a person, as told and written by that person.	42
8259618976	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	43
8259252457	Tone	The attitude the author has toward the work, displayed through the language being used.	44
8259627139	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	45
8259252458	Colloquialism	A local variation of language, as in a word or phrase, found within particular dialects.	46
8259637913	Joseph Heller	Catch 22	47
8259252459	Paradox	A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.	48
8259645749	James Joyce	Ulysses	49
8259252460	Dynamic Character	A character who undergoes growth and development during the literary work in which he/she resides.	50
8259654261	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	51
8259252461	Static Character	A character of one dimension and personality trait who remains unchanged by the events of the literary work in which he/she resides.	52
8259662236	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	53
8259252462	Biography	A truthful account of the life a person, told and written by another person.	54
8259676141	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	55
8259252463	Scene	A small division of drama within an act, usually of the same setting as the act, but not by definition.	56
8259683895	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	57
8259252464	Stereotype	A conventional and oversimplified opinion or belief about a person or group of people who may share similar characteristics; taking one characteristic of an individual and spreading that characteristic over the group that individual belongs to.	58
8259700270	William Golding	Lord of the Flies	59
8259252465	Virtue	The quality of moral excellence, righteousness, and responsibility, probity; goodness.	60
8259705782	Toni Morrison	Beloved	61
8259252466	Vice	An evil, degrading or immoral practice of habit; a serious moral failing.	62
8259717414	Lewis Carroll	Alice in Wonderland	63
8259252467	Complex Character	A character w/ different traits and aspects of personality but who neither grows nor changes during the literary work in which he resides.	64
8259726220	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	65
8259252468	Superego	The part of the personality which acts as a moral monitor to the behaviors of the individual. It is the faculty that seeks to police what it deems unacceptable desires; it represent all moral restrictions.	66
8259733345	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter A	67
8259252469	Direct Quotation	Using the words of a source directly.	68
8259741221	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	69
8259252470	Plot	The events which make up a story line.	70
8259768254	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	71
8259747023	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travel	72
8259774633	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	73
8259252471	Style	The language used by the writer, as well as the narrative techniques used, working together to form the full aspect of the printed material in front of us.	74
8259782762	William Shakespeare	Othello	75
8259252472	Omniscient	The third person narrator who sees all and know all -even the thoughts- about the character of the story.	76
8259789401	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	77
8259252473	Nemesis	That force which restores order within a tragedy, named for the goddess of retributive justice.	78
8259794870	William Shakespeare	King Lear	79
8259252474	Metaphor	A comparison of unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'	80
8259802487	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	81
8259252475	Irony	A contrast between what is stated and what is meant; there are verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony.	82
8259835361	Arthur Miller	The Crucible	83
8259826768	Thornton Wilder	Our Town	84
8259814550	Tennessee William	A Streetcar Named Desire	85
8259252476	Foreshadow	To use details and images to hint at events to come in the narrative.	86
8259855666	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Hamilton	87
8259252477	Analysis	The separation of an intellectual whole into its component parts in order to better understand and to reach a truth.	88
8259873628	Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time	89
8259252478	Indirect Quotation	Using the words of the author, though not in a direct, word-for-word borrowing.	90
8259896961	Anton Chekhov	The Stories of Anton Chekhov	91
8259252479	Paraphrase	To put the words of the author into your own words.	92
8259966856	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	93
8259252480	Novella	A prose fictional narrative containing all the elements of a novel but much shorter.	94
8259975125	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	95
8259252481	Tragic Hero	A person of noble birth whose personal destruction is in some way involved w/ the well being of his/her world and who faces a battle of morals; her/his destruction comes from a flaw with his/her personality.	96
8259983680	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	97
8259252482	Insight	The act of outcome of grasping the inward or hidden nature of things which in turn tells the grasper a significant message about herself/himself; makes the learning personal, owned.	98
8259998936	Jane Austen	Emma	99
8259252483	Stream-of-consciousness	The unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind; a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character's mental processes.	100
8260005634	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	101
8259252484	Rhetoric	The body of principles and theory having to do with the presentation of the facts and ideas in clear, convincing, and attractive language.	102
8260015817	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	103
8259252485	Ad hominem	Appealing to persona considerations rather than to logic or reason.	104
8260025149	Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White	105
8259252486	A priori	Involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by facts.	106
8260033825	Louisa M. Alcott	Little Women	107
8259252487	Purple patch	A selection of writing which contains an unusual piling up devices in such a way as to evidence a self-conscious literary effort; a colorful passage standing out from the writing around it.	108
8260042782	Robert Louis Stevenson	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	109
8259252488	Euphemism	The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.	110
8260050864	Jack London	The Call of the Wild	111
8259252489	Apostrophe	When an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.	112
8260067413	E. B. White	Charlotte's Web	113
8259252490	Dichotomy	Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions.	114
8260092507	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord Of The Rings	115
8259252491	Tragedy	A literary work, usually a drama, which deals with human themes; several elements are involved: hamartia, hubris, catharsis, nemesis; in a tragedy, a hero will fall due to elements within the personality.	116
8260100053	Jack Kerouac	On the Road	117
8259252492	Hubris	Excessive pride, especially found within the tragic hero.	118
8259252493	Local color	The interests or flavor of a specific locality as expressed in a story through language.	119
8259252494	Narrative	The story of a fictional or actual events as told by the teller.	120
8259252495	Naturalism	A factual representation, conforming to nature, especially in art and literature.	121
8259252496	Realism	A truthful representation, with an inclination toward pragmatism, that is accurate to life's xpression.	122
8259252497	Short Story	A fictional prose, dealing essentially with a single conflict, which can be read in a single session.	123
8259252498	Pleasure Principle	The concept that pleasure is the only thing that matters and any manner of attaining it is fine; often this is the role of the Id, the earliest part of the developing personality.	124
8259252499	Reality Principle	The function which monitors the Id; the concept that some things are more important than immediate pleasure, namely, the continuation of pleasure after the initial gaining of it.	125
8259252500	Denouement	The point in the story after the conflict is resolved.	126
8259252501	Drama	A full-length work of fiction that is written in dialogue, meant to be performed upon a stage.	127
8259252502	Flashback	Stopping the flow of the narrative to return to a setting or even earlier in the tale, even to events that predate the earliest part of the plot.	128
8259252503	Hamartia	The tragic flaw of a tragic hero; that which will make the hero fall; this needs to be a trait that is generally considered a good thing.	129
8259252504	Description	The words the author uses to fully detail a place or thing; these words will bring pictures to the mind.	130
8259252505	Symbol	Something which stands for and represents itself but also stands for something much greater than itself.	131
8259252506	Climax	The point in the story when the conflict is resolved- where we know who wins this conflict, the protagonist or the antagonist.	132
8259252507	Novel	A full-length prose fiction where the narrative is the chief story-telling element and several conflicts, settings, and characters will dwell.	133
8259252508	Parallelism	A structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased.	134
8259252509	Pathetic Fallacy	False emotionalism in writing resulting in a too impassioned description of nature; it is the carrying over to inanimate objects the moods and passions of a human being.	135
8259252510	Histrionics	A deliberate display of emotion for effect.	136
8259252511	Hagiography	A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint).	137
8259252512	Idiomatic	Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language.	138
8259252513	Metonymy	Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it.	139