Exam Guide Flashcards
Allusion
Reference to another literary work or art
Paradox
Something that doesn’t make sense but looking at closely makes sense
Dynamic
Goes through change
Static
Does not go through change
Flat
Don’t know a lot about character
Round
Know a lot about character
Fryetag’s pyramid
Story telling structure includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement
Exposition
Dialogue or description that provides background information about the characters and information
Inciting incident
Main problem occurs
Rising action
Conflict is further developed
Climax
Most exciting point, point of no return
Falling action
Events that take place after and are a result of the climax
Denouement
The ending
Situational
unexpected occur
Dramatic
Audience knows something character doesn’t
Verbal
Speaker says one thing and means another
Limited
Focuses on thoughts and feelings of one single character
Omniscient
Focuses on the thoughts and feelings of all or multiple characters
Satire
Humorous mocking. Harrison Bergeron, Fahrenheit 451
Utopia
An imagined place or state in which everything is perfect
Dystopia
An imagined place or state in which everything is bad
Surveillance
Monitoring of actions or behaviors
Panopticon
Area where everything is visible or able to be monitored
Heresy
Belief or opinion contrary to the accepted policy
Introspection
The examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional processes
Critical thinking
A way of analyzing a claim to decide whether it is true of partially true
Inculcate
Implant by repeated statement or reprimand punishment
Sociology
Study of development,structure, functioning of human society
Philosophy
Study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence especially when considered as an academic discipline
Denounce
To report someone has done something bad
Trade journal
Magazine for trade
Censorship
Removing altering or destroying various forms of expression or removing limiting access to them
Dissident
Someone who goes against the government or those in power
Epiphany
Sudden realization
Foil
A character is different from another character in at least one way
Liberal arts college
A collage with an emphasis on non-professional non technical non vocational disciplines in which students were exposed to a wide range of academic subjects
Confidante
A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat to others
Tag name
Symbolic name
Montag = stationary company
Faber = pencil company
Stream of consciousness
A narrative that features the thoughts as they play out and flow continuously in a characters head
Scapegoat
A person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done
Mentor
An experienced and trusted advisor
Omnipotence
State of being all powerful
Omnipresence
State of being everywhere at once
Omniscience
State of being all knowing
Memoir
A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge
Narrater
Person who tells a story
Superstition
Belief in supernatural casualty
Portent
Sign of something bad
Prose
Ordinary form of spoken or written language without poetic structures
Stanza
A unified group of lines in poetry usually divided by a blank line
Nostalgia
Bittersweet longing for the past
Empathy
Ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Sympathy
Feeling of pit and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune
Roman a clef
A coming of age story, marigold, scarlet ibis
Tone
Authors attitude towards subject
Pathetic fallacy
Weather mirrors characters emotions
Motif
Idea that repeats itself
Fallibility
Philosophical theory that says people can make mistakes even when they think they didn’t. Now way to have absolute final knowledge
Infallibility
Quality of never making an error
Cliché
Phrase that is overused
Aside
Short remark spoken by one character to another that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear
Soliloquy
Longer speech in which a character utters thoughts aloud
Pun
Play on words. Include words that sound the same but have different meanings
Comic relief
Humor or a humorous scene that appears immediately before of immediately after a serious scene of set of lines
Apostrophe
Figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality object or idea
Oxymoron
Two words placed side by side that seem to be contradictory
Antithesis
Two words placed side by side or close by each other that are opposite
Footnote
Information written at the bottom of a page in a text meant to guide the reader
