Lit Terms... fuck

Question 1

Anachronism

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Putting things in the wrong time period. For example, if a character from rome talks about a clock.

Question 2

Absurd

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A style in which structure, plot, and characterization are diregarded or garbled in order to stress lack of logic. Rabits eat carrots. Eating the crust first on a pizza. Both absurd

Question 3

Antithesis

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Literary technique using opposites to balance something and give a sense of yin and yang. AP is to live a healthy life. IB is to fucking die and lose sleep. Fuck IB. Fuck this test.

Question 4

Aphorism

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Pithy… what’s pithy? Fuck if I know. A concise statemen or observation of a doctrine or principle.

Question 5

Anticlimax

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When something makes a big lead up and shifts to completely irrelevant or trivial thing. Like in How I Met Your Mother, basically every commercial break. They end with something that sounds dramatic and makes your wonder what’s next, then the commercial ends and they say something ridiculous and not dramatic.

Question 6

Ballade

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A verse form consisting of three eigthline stanzas, each with a consistent meter and a particular rhyme scheme.

Question 7

Bildungsroman

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Coming of age story. This word probably means puberty in german.

Question 8

Bombast

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Using lots and lots of big and pompous words to say something with very little meaning. For an example, read one of those IB brochures.

Question 9

Cacaphony

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Gross sounds put together that sound bad to the ears. Like finger nails on chalkboard but with words.

Question 10

Caesura

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Break or pause in a metrical line of poetry, often marked by a punctuation.

Question 11

Chiasmus

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Occurs when order of words is reversed in parallel expressions… ? From wikipedia: “Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves.”

Question 12

Deus Ex Machina

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A very good video game. Eagles from lord of the rings.

Question 13

Doppelganger

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When a character is split in two or has a polar opposite.

Question 14

Emulation

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To parody. The ambition to equal, excel, or surpass another. To compete by copying. Android emulates iOS by being a ripoff bastard

Question 15

Euphemism

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tee hee

Question 16

Gothicism

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Medieval and morbidly attractive writing.

Question 17

Ekphrastic

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Commentary of a work of art. Movie reviews. Amazon reviews. When I say “booooo” to Joon’s bad puns.

Question 18

Epithet

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A rhetorical term for “adjective”… seriously it just means adjective. Something that describes something.

Question 19

Hyperbaton

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Disruption or inversion of customary word order to produce a distinctive effect. Also, when a figure of speech takes a sudden turn… like a plot twist but literary. I still don’t get it.

Question 20

In Medias Res

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skip the boring parts and start in the middle.

Question 21

Nemesis

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GODDESS OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION. Punishes those who suffer from extreme hubris or pride. KARMA

Question 22

Pathetic Fallacy

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fallacy of attributing human feelings and emotion to inanimate objects.

Question 23

Periphrasis

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Basically circumlocution. Talking around something to describe it. Using more words than necessary.

Question 24

Periodic Structure

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Long and frequently involved sentence marked by suspended syntax.

Question 25

Polysyndeton

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Using several conjunctions where some might be ommitted. He drank and got drunk and ran around and drank more and talked to people he didnt know and puked in the grass and layed in the grass.

Question 26

Portmanteau

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combining words into nonsense words. Brunch

Question 27

Spoonerism

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Transposition of sound in two or more words. Aminals (instead of animals), Nuckin Futs.

Question 28

Stream of Consciousness

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Faulkner

Question 29

Sturm & Drang

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Storm and Stress. LOUD WORDS AND RAAAAAWR in literature. BIG NOISE. ALL CAPS. BLITZKRIEG

Question 30

Zeugma

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Use of one word to govern two or more words but should only work for one. “He stole my heart and my sandwich.” You don’t steal people’s hearts. It doesnt work by itself.

Question 31

Syllepsis

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Ellipsis in which one word is understood differently in relation to two or more other words which it modifies or governs. Basically zeugma but it makes sense for both. “You may execute your laws and your citizens”. Makes sense for both independently.

Question 32

Malapropism

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Absurd or numerous misuse of a word. Especially when it sounds the same as another. Only-One Kenobi (obi wan). Fire distinguisher (fire extinguisher).

Question 33

Metonymy

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One word, phrase, or idea is replaced with something closely related to it. White house for Obama

Question 34

Synecdoche

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Part is used to represent the whole.

Question 35

Satire

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South Park. Colbert Report.

Question 36

Synesthesia

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Describe one sensation using another.

Question 37

Verisimilitude

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Trying to make something very life-like. Adding tons of details.

Question 38

Naturalism

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Apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings… ?

Question 39

Negative Capability

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Our ability to accept uncertainty and cliffhangers.