Terminolgy Flashcards
What is analepsis
A flashback to a past event
What us dialogue
The use of speech in a text
What is prolepsis
Flash forward to future event
What is a cliffhanger
A dramatic event, exciting ending
What is in medias res
A text starting in the middle of a event
What is a shift in focus
Changing focus from one thing to another
What is a cyclical structure
The ending of a text returns to the start
What is a narrative perspective
The point of view a text is written in
What is foreshadowing
An indication to a future event
What is juxtaposition
Opposing ideas
Dramatic irony
The audience have knowledge/understanding that a character doesn’t
Heinous
And utterly hateful, wicked attack
Deception
To trick/deceive someone
Foreboding
A feeling that something bad will happen
Palpable
So intense as seen tangible
Ambiguity
The quality of being opens more than one interpretation
Illusion
A deceptive appearance, or impression
Perturbed
Feeling anxiety or concern
Metonymy
Use of the name of one thing for that of another
Anaphora
Repeating something three times
Stichomythia
Dialogue with characters rapidly talk in alternative lines
Paranoid
Feeling extremely nervous or worried
Erratic
In pattern of movement; unpredictable
Tyrant
A ruler who uses power, oppressively or unjustly
Anathesis
A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
Oxymoron
Went to opposite things, appear next to each other
Nihilistic
Rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless
Allusion
Call something to mind without mentioning it, explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
Petrified
So frightening, that one is unable to move; terrified
Apprehensive
Anxious or fearful, for that something bad or unpleasant will happen
Unhinged
Mentally unbalanced, deranged
Neurotic
Behaving strangely, or in an anxious way
Equivocation
Use of misleading, contradictory or ambiguous language intended to deceive others
Eponymous
When something is named after someone
