Vocabulario Literario Flashcards
Allegory
Alegoría, emblema
Antithesis
Antítesis
Alliteration
Aliteración
Allusion
Alusión, referencia
Ambiguity
Ambigüedad
Analogy
Analogía
Antecedent
Antecedente
Aphorism
Aforismo
Apostrophe
Apóstrofe
Atmosphere
Atmósfera
Caricature
Caricatura, dibujo cómico
Clause
Cláusula, oración
Colloquial/ Colloquialism
Coloquial/ palabra familiar
Conceit
Presunción, envanecimiento, vanagloria
Connotation
Connotación, sentimiento además
Denotation
Denotación, signo
Diction
Dicción, uso de palabras
Didactic
Didáctico, riguroso
Euphemism
Eufemismo, proceso eufemístico
Catharsis
Catarsis
Cacophony
Cacofonía
Caesura
Cesara
Conceptism (literary movement associated with the Spanish baroque period that is characterized by the use of word play, paradoxes, acuteness of thoughts, and concision in expression)
Conseptismo
Chromaticism
Cromatismo
Gongorism
Culteranismo
Diaeresis
Diéresis
Diphthong
Diptongo
Ellipsis
Elipsis
Enjambment
Encabalgamiento
Epithet
Epíteto
Epic Poetry
Epopeya
Stanza
Estrofa, estancia
Extended Metaphor
Metáfora extendida
Asyndeton
Asíndeton
Archetype
Arquetipo
Refrain (line or lines that are repeated throughout a poem)
Estribillo
Tragic flaw
Falla trágica
Rhetorical figure
Figura retórica
Tragic flaw (h)
Hamartia
Hyperbaton
Hipérbaton
Poetic Justice (character is punished or rewarded based on their actions, often by fate)
Justicia poética
unreliable narrator, narrator who misinterprets the motives or action of the characters or who does not perceive the connections between the facts of the story, creating a discrepancy between the author and the narrator because the narrator is offering inconsistent information
Narrador no fidedigno
witness, narrator who does not participate in the action of the story but relates the facts in first person and makes commentary
Narrador testigo
Ode
Oda
Paradox
Paradoja
Couplet (p)
Pareado
Parody
Parodia
polyphony, aspect of narrative involving multiple perspectives
Polifonía
Polysyndeton, repetition of conjunctions
Polisíndeton
Foreshadowing (n.)
Prefiguración
Rhetorical question
Pregunta retórica
Personification
Personificación
Pun
Retruécano
Assonance
Rima asonante
Consonance
Rima consonante
Rhythm
Ritmo
Satire
Sátira
Metonymy
Metonimia
Synecdoche
Sinécdoque
Synesthesia
Sinestesia
theatrical rule that there is only one principal action, that the action does not last more than one day, and that all of the action takes place in the same place
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