Wednesday, February 12, 2014

LIT TERMS #6

simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
 

speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story. 

stream of consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization. 
style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking. 

subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the irrational aspects 
of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

suspension of disbelief: suspend disbelief in order to enjoy something.

symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.


synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense. 

synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.


theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).


thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved;
the main idea.

tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.

tongue in cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; also called "dry" or "dead pan" 

tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed.

understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.

vernacular: everyday speech.


voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona.
zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

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