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Terms
- Allegory- An extended metaphor.
- Alliteration- Repitition of the same sounding consanant.
- Allusion- An Metaphor that continously extends itself throughout the story.
- Antagonist- Provokes conflict within a story's plot.
- Archetype- Personality type.
- Assonance- Repition of the same sounding vowel.
- Biographical Criticism- Using past information about an authors life for use of interpretation.
- Blank Verse- A poem that doesn't rhyme.
- Caesura- An intentional pause implemented within poetry.
- Character- Plays a role in a story.
- Conflict- Is when a problem occurs within a story to create a dramatic effect.
- Connotation- Is the suggestive assosciation of a relationship between two objects.
- Consonance- Repitition of similiar consonants.
- Conventions- Different types of modalities are used by others to produce certain effects, like humor,
horror, and terror.
- Denotations-A nagative assosciation.
- Denouement- The flow of events, that leads to the climax within a story's plot.
- Diction- Choice of words an Author uses.
- Dramatic Irony- When a drama has a different intended meaning then what actually happens within
the story.
- Dulce et utile- Sweet and Useful
- Dynamic Character- A character that changes, or functions differently throughout the story.
- Farce- A spoofish, or, comical story.
- Feminist Criticism- An Interpretive perspective from a Woman's point of view.
- Figurative Language- Language that is symbolic and implies meaning insted of literal diction.
- Flat Character- A minor character.
- Free Verse- Verse with no regular rhythm.
- Freytag Pyramid- Analytical process regarding the construction of greek and Shakespearean plays.
- Genre- The "type" of literature.
- HIstorical Criticism- Criticism that evaluates the historical events that took place during the time
of a story as helpful sources in interpreting a stories meaning.
- Iambic Pentameter- Is specific pattern of rhtythm and meter used in certain poems.
- Imagery- Creates a picture that readers can see with their imagination.
- Melodrama- Action dominates the story, not characters.
- Metaphor- Is a figurative representation of objects, that creates a better descrption for
readers in understanding the authors view.
- Meter- The measurement of rhythmic feet per line.
- Motif- Different literary devices used to create various story modalities.
- Narrator- The person who tells the story.
- New Criticism- Interprets literature based on the coherence of the written dialect.
- Off-Rhyme- An imperfect rhyme.
- Onomatopoeia- A word that sounds like what it actually means
- Paradox- Is when a contradictory situatuation occurs within the story's plot.
- Personification- Is when an Author assosciates human attributes and characteristics to non-living
things, like death and time.
- Plot- Is what happens within the story.
- Point of View- Is the specific perspective of concern.
- Protagonist- The main character of the story.
- Psychological Criticism- The psycho analytical interpretation of Literature.
- Reader-response Criticism- The critical feed back of different readers.
- Round Character- Is a realistic depiction of a character in a story that makes the character
seem like a real person.
- Rhythym- The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within the foot of a poem.
- Scansion- Devides the lines of poetry into feet.
- Setting- Is where a story takes place.
- Simile- Is a metaphor that uses like or as.
- Situational Irony- Is, generally, a contradictory subplot within a story.
- Stanza- Is a group of lines within a poem.
- Static Character- A character that remains unchanged throughout the story.
- Stream Consciousness- The flow of events that is revealed to the reader as the play progresses.
- Symbol- An object that stands for something else.
- Theme- Is the meaning, or authors message, of what takes place within the story.
- Tone- Is the mood an author conveys to the readers through writting.
- Tragedy- Is a story that displys the fall of a great figure from power.
- Tropes-A play on words.
- Turn- A dramatic change within a storys plot.
- Ubi sunt motif- Where are those who were before us.
- Verbal Irony- The use of inronic simallies in the form of dialogue.
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