Vocab- Week 6 Flashcards
A perspective confined to a single character whether a first person or a third person
Limited point of view
A figure speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
Litote
A sentence grammatically complete and usually stating its main idea before the end
Loose sentence
Originally designated poems meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre, now any short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situations
Lyric
A misleading term for theme, the central idea or statement of a story or area of inquiry or exclamation, Misleading because it suggests a simple package statement that preexists in for the simple communications of which the story is written
Message
One thing pictured as if it were something else suggesting a likeness or analogy between them, without like or as
Metaphor
The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line poetry
Meter
A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something
Metonymy
A feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as a writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view
Mood
A recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the reapperance of a character or event
Motif
