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Final Flashcards

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Theme

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statement on a topic

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Subject

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What the text is about

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Paradox

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Something that is contradictory yet true

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Kafkaesque

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When something is nightmareish, uncanny, absurd, and enigmatic

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Allegory

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A narrative in which the agents and actions ( and sometimes the setting as well ) are contrived by the author to make coherent sense on the ‘literal’ or primary level of signification

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Lyric poetry

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Expresses personal emotions or feelings / doesn’t tell a story

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Narrative poetry

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Like a short story

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Formulaic fiction

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Literature where the story line has been used so much that it became predictable

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Postcolonial fiction

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Writing coming from a formerly - colonized territory after it gains independence

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Hamartia

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An error of judgement that defines the tragic hero

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Ethnography

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A form of anthropological writing that involves reporting on a people’s way of life, customs, etc.

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Literary fiction

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Holds a mirror up to the human condition

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Popular fiction

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Aims to entertain

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Double-consciousness

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The internal conflict experienced by subordinated/colonized groups in an oppressive way

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Epigraph

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A quotation set at the beginning of a literary work to suggest theme

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Dramatic monologue

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A poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene

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Doppleganger

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A double of a living person

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Irony

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When what is expected to happen doesn’t

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Dramatic irony

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reader knows more than the character

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Verbal irony

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what is said is sarcastic

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Situational

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What we expect to happen isn’t what actually happens

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Polyvocality

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The power of many voices to change/shift and sustain narrative change

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Assimilation

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The process by which a minority group comes to resemble the majority group

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Proverb

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A short saying ( communal wisdom )

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Alienation

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Being purposefully isolated from a group

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Apostrophe

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When the author references a person, place, or thing that everyone should know

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Binary thinking

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The habit of conceiving difference in the most extreme and oppositional terms

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Parody

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Imitation of a particular genre of writing to make fun of it

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Refrain

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A word or phrase repeated multiple times throughout the poem

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Appropriate

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Action of taking something for one’s own use typically without permission

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Ambivalence

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State of having mixed feelings about something

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Peripeteia

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A reversal of fortune

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Tragic hero

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A character that suffers and is defeated in the end

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Particular vs. universal

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Particular: specific to one thing
Universal: What all things have in common

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Satire

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Use of humour to criticize something

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Parody

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An imitation of the style of something or someone

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Archetype

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Something that we see again and again like a person place or thing
Example: trickster figures
- Loki in the MCU
- Coyotes in Indigenous

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Essentialism

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the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity

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Fantastic literature

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A subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces

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Diaspora

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The dispersion of any group of peoples from their homeland

Ex. Dispersion of Jewish peoples from Israel

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Creole

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A person of mixed European and African descent, usually originating from the Caribbean

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Writing back

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The act of challenging previous stories, ideas, cultures, events, histories, ideas about people, etc.

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Transmotivation

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The process of revising a fictional character’s motivations to correspond to his/her actions

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Progressivist history

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A social or political movement that aims to represent the interests of ordinary people through political change and the support of government actions

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Metonymy

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The substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant

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Frame narrative

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A story in which another story is embedded

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Focalization

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The perspective through which a narrator is presented.

Heterodiagetic vs. homodiagetic

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Heterodiagetic

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A story told by a narrator who is NOT present as a character in the story

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Homodiagetic

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A story told by a narrator who IS also the protagonist or another character

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Literary canon

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Refers to a body of books, narrative, or other texts considered to be the most important and influential of a particular time period or place

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Intertextuality

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The shaping of a text’s meaning by another text. Interconnection of related works of literature that reflect and influence an audience’s interpretation of the text.

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Misnomer

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A name that is incorrectly attached to something

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Elegy

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A poem or song lamenting someone who is dead

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Leitmotif

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A recurrent theme throughout a literary composition

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Dub Poetry

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A form of performance poetry influenced by the rhythms of reggae music

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Composite novel

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Composed of fragments
Combines the complexity of miscellany
Integrative quality of a novel

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Short story cycle

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A series of closely related short stories

Unifies its stories and makes the community the protagonist

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Adaptive transposition

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When one work is adapted by an author and it can be moved

Headstrong Historian and Things Fall Apart

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History from Below

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A type of historical narrative which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people rather than leaders

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