Glossary Week 10 Flashcards
Naturalism
a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic.
Painter didn’t make things look better than they are, was naturalistic.
Non Sequitur
A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.
Your dog is cute, I am eating apple pie.
Objective
Of or relating to facts and reality, as opposed to private and personal feelings and attitudes Its opposite is subjective.
I speak to someone who doesn’t know me, so I get an objective opinion
Ode
A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
Ode to Joy
Old English
The Anglo-Saxon language spoken from approximately 450 to 1150 A.D. in what is now Great Britain.
You the one who stole my soul and hid it thou heart
My lady!
Omniscient Narrator
A narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story.
“Murderer behind the corner” Main char doesn’t know this narrator does.
Onomatopoeia
The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning.
Snap, sizzle, crack, pop
Oxymoron
A term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect.
Jumbo shrimp, known secret.
Parable
A story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived.
Story with a moral, Boy who cried wolf.
Paradox
A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true.
“I am a compulsive liar” “Spend money to make money”
Parallel Structure
The structure required for expressing two or more grammatical elements of equal rank. Coordinate ideas, compared and contrasted ideas, and correlative constructions call for parallel construction.
P:Kids swim, and ride dirt bikes. N:Kids swim, and riding dirt bikes.
Parody
An imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject.
Spaceballs and Starwars
