Vocabulary 3 Flashcards
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Juxtaposition
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- the location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed to another. this placing of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals and attitude
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Limited Point of View
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- a perspective confined to one character
•could be first or third person - reader does not know what is going on in the other characters’ minds
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Litote
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- a figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
•ex: George Orwell = “Last week I saw a woman flayed and you would hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.”
•ex: saying “not bad” for something done very well
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Loose sentence
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- a sentence grammatically complete, and usually stating it’s main idea, before the end.
•ex: the child ran as if being chased by demons
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Lyric
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- 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 situation
•two types = sonnet and ode
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Message
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- a misleading term for “theme”
•suggests a simple statement that pre-exists and for the simple communication of which the story is written - the central idea or statement of a story, or area of inquiry, or explanation
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Metaphor
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- one thing pictured as if it were something else
- suggesting a likeness or analogy between them
- implicit comparison or identification or one thing with another unlike itself without “like” or “as”
- sometimes used as a general term for figure of speech
•Romeo “But soft what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun.”
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Meter
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- the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
- determined by the “foot” and by the # of “feet” per line
•foot = iambic or dactylic
•ex:
~ 5 feet = pentameter
~ 6 feet = hexameter
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Metonymy
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- a figure of speech where an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something
•ex: "The pen is mightier than the sword"
~ pen = publishing/all media
~ sword = military
•ex: "The Spires of Oxford"
~ "God rest you, happy gentlemen,
Who laid your good lives down,
Who took the khaki and the gun
Instead of cap and gown.
God bring you to a fairer place
Than ever Oxford town."
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Mood
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- a feeling or ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view
- fabricated through descriptions of feelings or objects that establish a sense of fear, patriotism, sanctity, hope, etc
•ex: Thomas Hardy’s novels (Jude the Obscure) = relentless gloom, depression, and despair
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Motif
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- a recurrent device, formula, or situation often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event
•ex: “The Great Gatsby” - the color green
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Narrative Structure
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- a textual organization based on sequences of connected events
•presented in a straightforward, chronological framework
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Narrator
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- the “character” who “tells” the story
- in poetry narrator = persona
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Occasional Poem
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- a poem written about or for a specific occasion, public or private
• an epithalamium = wedding poem
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Ode
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- a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment
•elevated in style
•sometimes has an elaborate stanza structure
•often patterned in sets of 3 - are written to praise and exalt a person, characteristic, quality, or object
•ex: Poe’s “To Helen,” or Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”
