Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax
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
Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general
Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter
Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur
Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison
Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage
Spiritual: a folk song, usually religious theme
Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking
Stereotype: cliche, a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story
Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them
As you can see, the theoretical representation of the author's--oh wow, a butterfly!
Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization
First will be the invitation. Then the journey. Then, the enlightenment. Finally, there will be revelation.
Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking
Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language
Surrealism: a style of literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the non-rational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and banal
Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it
Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own
Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense
Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole
Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence
Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s)
Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea
Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view
Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; aka "dry" or "dead pan"
Tragedy: in literature any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
Vernacular: everyday speech
Voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey the writer's or speaker's persona
Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
Great job on the Bob I and I Am Here assignment. For your lit terms, can you make them a little bit more readable? I had to highlight the entire text so I could see the terms and definitions. I look forward to seeing more from you.
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