Defenitions Flashcards
The representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works.
Characterization
Is the name often given to the manner in which texts all sorts contain references to other texts that’s have, in some way, contributed to their production and signification.
Intertextuality
Covers a range of developments in art, literature, music and philosophy, spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Romanticism
Masculine
Terror, obscurity, apprehension, passion, excitement, confusion, and infinity.
Associated with raging seas and rushing waterfalls
Is caused by terror, fear, the apprehension of pain or death obscurity power.
The sublime
The term refers more specifically to the sequence of imagined events that we reconstruct from the actual arrangement of a narrative plot.
Story
The pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work, as selected and arranged both the emphasize relationships-usually of cause and effect- between incidents and to elicit a particular kind of interest in the reader or audience, such as surprise or suspense
Plot
The process of making a work of art upon the basis of elements provided by an earlier work in a different, usually literary, medium; also the secondary work thus produced.
Adaptation
The reasoned discussion of literary works, an activity which may include some or all of the following procedures, in varying proportions: the defence of literature against moralists and censors, classification of a work according to its genre, interpretation of its meaning, analysis of its structure and style, judgement of its worth by comparison with other works, estimation of its likely effect on readers, and the establishment of general principles by which literary works can be evaluated and understood.
Criticism
A statement of theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved
Thesis
Is a pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verses.
Metre
Is a metrical unit of verse, having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, as in the word ‘destroy’
Iamb
Is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
Alliteration
Repeated vowel sounds.
Assonance
The repetition of consonant sounds.
Consonance
Is the repeated “ss” sounds
Sibilance
A group of verse lines forming a section of a poem and sharing the same structure as all or some of the other sections of the same poem.
Stanza
A folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner some popular story usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend.
Ballad
A kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent ‘audience’ of one or more persons.
Dramatic monologue
The running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause.
Enjambment
A kind of poetry that does not conform to any regular metre: the length of its lines is irregular, as it is its use of rhyme-if any.
Free verse
A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in successive lines, clauses, or sentences.
Anaphora
The broad class of fiction that is easily identifiable as belonging within any of the recognized genres, especially of popular novel or romance such as science fiction, detective story, thriller, western, historical romance, or live story.
Genre fiction
The age of the protagonists
Voice and perspective
Themes in the text
Young adult fiction
Ann imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.
Dystopia
Defined by Grace Dillon as a literature that mobilized the tropes and trends of science and speculative fiction to envision a future from an indigenous perspective, and in turn creates a “way to renew, recover, and extend First Nations peoples’ voices and traditions
Indigenous futurism
A popular modern branch of prose fiction that explores the probable consequences of some improbable or impossible transformation of the basic conditions of human existence.
Science fiction
A fictional prose tale of no specified length, but too short to be published as a volume on its own, as novellas sometimes and novels usually are.
The short story
Ingram’s definition: “is a book of short stories so linked to each other by their author that the readers successive experience on various levels of the pattern of the whole significantly modified his experience of each of its component parts.”
Short story cycle
Fiction about fiction; or more especially a kind of fiction that openly comments on its own fictional status… the term is normally used for works that involve a significant degree of self-consciousness about themselves as fictions, in ways that go beyond occasional apologetic addresses to the reader.
Metafiction
Acknowledging it’s fictional status like it The Husband Stitch
Self reflexivity
An imagined form of ideal or superior human society; or a written work of fiction of philosophical speculation describing such a society.
Utopia
A kind of narrative or description that carries partially veiled meanings behind its actions and cast of characters, as for example when a dialogue between animals covertly echoes contemporary political conflicts.
Allegory
Highly valuable writing
Is imaginative
Transforms and intensifies ordinary language
Is how people relate themselves to writing
Literature
A figure of speech that makes an implied comparison between seemingly unrelated objects without using “like” or “as”
Metaphor
A story in which another story is enclosed or embedded as a “tale within a tale,” or which contains several such tales.
Frame narrative
Enclosed with a frame narrative as a tale-within-the-tale, like the pilgrims’ stories in the Canterbury Tales, which are embedded within Chaucer’s account of the journey to Canterbury.
Embedded narrative
