techniques Flashcards
Prose?
spoken language in its original tone with no metrical structure
Allusion
An indirect reference to someting or someone
Ambience
tone/location and setting
Allegory
When something in literature represents a real life concept
Analepsis/prolepsis
A flashback/flash foward
Androcentric
being focused with men!
Anthropomorphism
When non human figures are given human qualities
Anti-climax
when an expected climax doesnt appear
Anti hero
A character who doesn’t act morally virtuous but a protagonist
Bathos
being exceedingly pathetic to being ridiculous
Black comedy
horrific situations treated with comedy
Caesura
A natural pause in a sentence
Catharsis
An emotional release
stitchomythia
back and forth diolouge either talking over or having a strong connection
courtly love
An idealised love due to social class
Denouncement
Final resolution for the plot
Double plot
A main plot and a subplot
Epithet
A title
Exaggerated Hyperbole
‘as big as a mouse’
paradox
a contradiction to save the plot
pathetic fallacy
when human emotions are described through weather and setting
perpertia
an unexpected reverse in fortune
prolific
lots of
subsiquently
means like additionily
syntactically
the meaning of
