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archetype |
character,action,situation thats a pattern of human life in literature |
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heroic journey |
a journey from the lowest to the top or a happy place |
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protagonist |
central character |
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antagonist |
advasary to protagonist |
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flat character |
character with 1 important trait |
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round character |
character with full personality |
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static character |
unchanging/ little changing character |
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dynamic character |
changes with situation |
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epiphany |
sudden unfolding from ignorance to knowledge |
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foil |
character that highlights qualities of major character |
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stock |
flat character with standard traits |
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details |
facts that support literature |
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diction |
word choice for certain effect |
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denotative |
dictionary meaning |
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connotative |
your definition |
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dialect |
speech of particular group differs from real/imaginary speech |
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euphemism |
use of a word less direct but less offensive |
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Idiom |
accepted phrase with diff. meaning than literal |
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Imagery |
words that appeal to senses |
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mood |
emotional atmospere in literature |
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suspense |
quality of lit. that makes audience uncertain/tense about outcome |
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omnicient |
a point of view-where everything is seen but was not seen the whole time |
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tone |
writers attitude toward a subject |
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paradox |
elements contridict each other |
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synedoche |
form of metaphor
part to signify whole
represent the reverse
container reps thing being contained |
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alliteration |
same consonate sound |
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assonance |
repitition of vowel soundsin words |
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consonance |
repitition of consonsate |
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meter |
measured pattern arrangement of syllables according to stress |
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onomatopoeia |
words that mimic sounds the discibe |
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take a break |
30 more left |
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rhyme |
repitition of sounds in phrases |
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rhythm |
varying spees intensity evevation pitch loudness in poems |
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allusion |
reference to something in history |
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antithesis |
contrast to something |
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induction |
observations to generalizations |
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deduction |
generalizations to valid inferences |
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classification |
identifies subject as part of larger group with similar features |
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direct characerization |
author directly states a character's traits |
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indirect characterization |
opposite of direct characterization |
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dramatic irony |
character does something with diff meaning from what he thinks but audience knows why he did it |
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situational irony |
situation turns out differently |
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verbal irony |
says one thing means another |
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motif |
describes pattern/ stand of imagery or symbolism |
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satire |
uses deviuces like irony understatement and exageration that highlights societal problems |
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symbolism |
things that mean one thing but also for something bigger than itself |
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understatement |
opposite of hyperbole |
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catharsis |
release of emotion from audiences perspective |
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dramatic unities |
time place action
24 hr period
how/ where action is set
what play consists of |
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hamarita |
flaws that lead hero to downfall |
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hubris |
arrogance before gods |
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recognition |
hewerio meets catastrophe realizes flaw and reason he must die |
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reversal |
opposite of what hero intends is happen |
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asyndeton |
ommision of conjunctions |
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ellipsis |
ommission of words readily implied by the context |
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anadiplosis |
repitition of word at end and begining of next phrase |
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anaphora |
repition of same word at begining of phrases |
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epistrophe |
rep. of same word{s}at end of phrases |
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polysyndeton |
rep. of conjunctions for effect |
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parallelism |
similarity in the way senteces are put togther |
