test 3 Flashcards
limited point of view
perspective confined to a single character
juxtapostion
two items side by side reveals an attitude or accomplishes some purpose of the writer
litote
emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
loose sentence
sentence grammatically complete, usually stating its main idea before the end
I went to the movie yesterday, but candy, and shocked at the mall
lyric
poem meant to be sung
message
central idea or statement of a story or area of inquiry or explanation NOT THEME
Metaphor
comparison without “like” or “as”
meter
the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllablesin a line of poetry
metonymy
when a commonly assoc feature is used to name or designate something else “pen is mightier than its sword”
mood
a feeling resulting from the tone of the peice as well as the narrators attitude and point of view
motif
reoccuring device, formula, situation- often a signal for the appearance of a character or event
narrative structure
organization of narrative
narrator
“charac” who tells the story (in poetry called persona)
occasional poem
poem written about or for a specific occasion
ode
lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, is elevated in style
omniscient point of view
aka unlimited focus, perspective that can be seen from one characters view then another “godly”
onomatopeia
word that sounds like what its like
overstatemetn
exaggerated language aka hyperbole
oxymoron
figure of speech that combines two condtradictory element (jumbo shrimp, tight slacks)
parable
short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lession through use of analogy
paradox
statement that seems contradictory but may be actually true (fight for peace)
parallel structure
use of similar forms of writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts
paraody
a work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing content of original
pastoral
a work that describes the simple life of country folk (aka ecologue, bucolic, idyll)
periodic sentence
sentence thats not grammatically complete until the end
persona
the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author (ex nick carraway in great gatsby)
personification
giving inanimate objects animate actions
polysyndeton
use of a number of conjunctions in close succession (and.. and… and… )
