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| The addition of explanatory notes to a text by the authoer or an editor to explain, translate, cite sources, give bibliographical data, comment, gloss or paraphrase. |
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| The chracter in a fiction or drame who stands directly opposed to the Protagonists. A rival or opponent of the protagonist. |
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| A collection of writing, either prose or poetry, usually by various authors. Anthologies are made by many different principles of selection and to serve a wide variety of purposes. An important use is the introduction of contemporary little know known writers to the public. Example could be the bible |
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| term used to describe a stylistic effect resulting from sudden or gradual decrease in interest or importance in the items of a series. |
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A philosophic doctrine that assigning reaon or intellect to comprehend the true nature of things. Anthing that celbrates feeling overthought, intution over logic, action over contemplation, results over means, experience over tradtion and license over discipline tends towards Anti-Intellectualism.
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| the study of the past through available relics, usually literary or artistic. Associated wit history, folklore, social customs, patriotism, religon, and other interets, and has existed in all nations, even in their primitive periods. |
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| A concise statement of a principle or precept giiven in pointed words |
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| Rhyme in which the final stressed syllable of a word ending in that stressed syllable is rhymed with the stressed syllable of a word ending in a stresed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
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| A figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed through present. Characeristic instances of apostrophe are found in invocations. |
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| An image, a descriptive detail, a plot, pattern, or character type that occurs frquently in lterature, Myth, religon, or folklore and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotion becaue it touches the unconcious memory causing illogical but strong responses. |
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| a prose statement summarizing the plot or stating the meaing of a long poem or occasionally of a play. |
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| Similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds. Differs from rhyme. Rhyme is similarity of vowel and consonant. Exampe of Rhyme: Lake and Fake/ Example of Assonance: Lake and Fate |
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| A maxim or aphorism whose truth is held to be self-evident. In logic axiom is a premise accepted astrue without the need of demonstarion and is sued in building an argument |
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| A term often applied to the Neoclassic Period in English literature and sometimes to the Revolutionary and Early National Period in American Literature, because these periods emphasized self-knowledge, self-control, rationalism, discipline, and the rule of law, order, and decorum in public and private life in art. |
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"Age of Johnson" results from seeing the interval between 1750 and 1793 as a seedfield for emergin ROMANTIC qualities in literature, such as PRIMITIVISM. A term frequently applied by contemporary critics and literary historians. SENSIBILITY and the origniality of the indicidual talent. "Age of Johnson" tends to emphasize the strong continuing NEOCLASSIC qualities in the literature of the time.
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| Repetion of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables. |
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| Usually Germany or Celtic term applied to verse forms, Metrical structure is based on some pattern of repetion of intial sounds withing the lines. 12th-14th centuries |
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| In common conversation, ambiguity is a negative term applied to a vague or equivocal expression when precision would be more useful. Sometimes, however, intentional ambiguity in literature can be a powerful device, leaving something undetermined in order to open up multiple possible meanings. When we refer to literary ambiguity, we refer to any wording, action, or symbol that can be read in divergent ways. As William Empson put it, ambiguity is "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language |
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| American Literature, Periods of Anachronism |
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| Assignment of something to a time when it was not inexistence. Sometimes used asa comic device. |
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| Literary gleanings, fragments, or passages from the writings of an authoer. Also the title for a collection of choice. |
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| Comparison of 2 things, a line in certain aspects soemthing unfamiliar is explained or described by coomparing it to something more familiar. |
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| Special process by which a director and an editor of a film select the details in a scene that an emphatic meaning is imposed on the viewer, fundamental approach to cinematic expression. |
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| Device of repetition. Repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. |
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A short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event. A good anecdote has a single, definite point, and the setting, dialogue, and characters are usually subordinate to the point of the story. Usually, the anecdote does not exist alone, but it is combined with other material such as expository essays or arguments. Writers may use anecdotes to clarify abstract points, to humanize individuals, or to create a memorable image in the reader's mind |
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| Narratives of historical events recorded year by year |
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| Books appering in successive numbers at intervals of 1 year |
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| Arrrangement of words from he Bible usually from Psalms, planned for church worship, any SONG of praise |
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| the ascription to animals or inanimate objects of human forms, emotions or characteristics, personification |
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| protagonist of a moder Play or Novel who has the opposite characteristics of most traditional heros. Example :incompetent, ugly, unlucky clumsy |
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| Irony: Verbal Irony (Sarcasm) Dramatic Irony: audience knowing something that is gonna happen before the character knows. Situational Irony: Example.. a pick pocket getting his pocket picked |
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Using opposite phrases in closed conjuction
Example: "I burn and I freeze" |
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| literature that predicts the ultimate destiny, destruction of the world. |
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| Denying ones intention to write or talk about a subject, but making the denial in such a way the topic is actually discussed. |
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| A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date to the era, but is still used to show and authors artistic purposes. |
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| a place to store historical documents or public records; also the documents and records stored there tite for academic, historic, scientific perodicals |
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| 1 of 4 "forms of discourse" the others exposition, narration, and description purpose is to convince y establishing the truth or falsity of a proposition. |
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| Tone/mood of a work established in part by setting or landscape |
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| Age of Romaticism. Over the 34 year period the types of literature included Historic Novels, poetry, gothic novels, science fiction, and personal essays. |
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| Interaction between symbols that creates a coherent beyond that of the literal level of interpretation |
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| A metrical romance written in alliterative verse, especially one produced during the revival of interet in alliterative poetry in the 14th century |
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| A figureo f speech that make a brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event or object |
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The existence of mutually conflicting feelings or attitudes. Often used to describe the conradictory attitudes an author takes toward characters or societes Example: Serene- peaceful or falsely placid
Syren- attractiveo r dangerously seductive |
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| a figure of speech with bare expressions, likely to be ignored, misunderstood or underestimated bacauseo f bluntness, or emphasized through restatement with additional detail. Used in music, oratory, and poetry. |
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When the letters of a name word or phrase or jumbled together to produce a new word
Example: Heaven/ Name: Nevaeh |
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| A method by which a thing is separated into parts, to gain a better understanding of it. |
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| A term applied to criticism that views the work of art as an autonomous whole and believes that its meaning, nature, and significance can be discovered by applying rigorous and logical systems of analysis to its several parts and their organization |
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adjective appears after the noun when we expect adjective to appear before the noun
Example: "Time present and time past" T.S. Elliot |
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Belief that animals and inanimate objects can possess souls. Natural objects are invested with human characteristics.
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| Placing an event, person, item or verbal expression in the wrong historical period |
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A story that contains similar characters, situations, settings, or verbal echoes to those found in a different story.
Example: Romeo and Juliet, Westside Story
Romeo and Juliet are loose source |
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