Critical Terminology - Truth, Lies, And Storytellin

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Archetype

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A very typical example of a certain person or thing

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Ekphrasis

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Art that describes art  especially poetry describing a visual piece of art

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Myth

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a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events

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Legend

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a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated

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Allegory

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When you say one thing, but mean another

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Horatian Satire

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Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and follies of human beings

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Irony

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When you say one thing, but mean the opposite

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Juvenalian Satire

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addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor

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Menippean Satire

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a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities

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Satire

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“Speaking against” Genre/mode that uses irony, wit, and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity's vices

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Parody

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“Speaking alongside” Produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of a (writer, artist, genre)

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Aestheticism

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the approach to art exemplified by (but not restricted to) the Aesthetic Movement

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Aesthetic Philosophy

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Study of beauty and taste

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Art

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the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power; Life imitates art → Art imitates life?; Art for art’s sake

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Decadence

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moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury

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Decadent

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characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline; a person who is luxuriously self-indulgent

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Essay

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a short piece of writing on a particular subject; an attempt or effort

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Nature

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the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations = art?

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Platonic Dialogue

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a genre of prose literary works developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BCE, preserved today in the dialogues of Plato and the Socratic works of Xenophon

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Blazon

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a poem in which the speaker describes his lover's body. It focuses on various parts of a woman's body, emphasizing her physical beauty

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Intertextuality

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the relationship between texts, especially literary ones; a literary device that creates an 'interrelationship between texts' and generates related understanding in separate works

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Lyric

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a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry

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Anachronism

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a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned

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Blocking

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the positions of the characters relative to one another and to the audience. Here again, each position has a strong or weak value and affords opportunities to emphasize certain dramatic elements of the characters, their relationships, and the story

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Chronicle Play

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a factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence, written as a play

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Dramatic Irony

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irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the work

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Nationalism

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patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts

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Nativism

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a return to or emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences

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Obscene

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offensive to moral principles; repugnant

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Shavian Tragedy

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Of, relating to, or characteristic of George Bernard Shaw

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Socialism

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a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

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Epistolary

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relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form or letters; A series of documents

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Fantasy

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a fiction genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common

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First Person Narrator

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a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing. First person can be recognized by the use of I or we

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Frame Narrative

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a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative

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Individual

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single; separate

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Media/Medium

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an intervening agency, means, or instrument” and was first applied to newspapers two centuries ago

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Misdirection

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a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another

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Novel

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Extended works of fiction written in prose; Novel = New → really derived from Italian “novella” → news → journalism; Contains a degree of realism

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Person

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a human being regarded as an individual

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Persona

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the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others; a role or character adopted by an author or an actor

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Quoted, or Direct Speech

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spoken or written text that reports speech or thought in its original form phrased by the original speaker; in narrative, it is usually enclosed in quotation marks. The cited speaker is either mentioned in the inquit (Latin "he/she says") or implied.

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Realism

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can be just consistency within the world we are reading about ie. Tolkien’s world

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Reported, or Indirect Speech

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a speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense (e.g., he said that he would go, based on I will go)

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Romance

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a narration of the extraordinary exploits of heroes, often in exotic or mysterious settings; has also been used for stories of mysterious adventures, not necessarily of heroes

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Third Person Limited Narration

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In third person limited the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they', 'he', and 'she'. But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character

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Third-person Omniscient Narration

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This is a common form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told

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Uncanny

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strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

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Unreliable Narrator

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a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised

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Epistemology

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How we know what we know; The idea that not one truth, but multiple truths

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Perceptual sense

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All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sense organs

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Fact

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a thing that is indisputably the case

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Fiction

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The general term for invented stories, now usually applied to novels, short stories, novellas, romances, fables, and other narrative works

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Historiographic Metafiction

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a term used for works of fiction which combine the literary devices of metafiction with historical fiction

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Historiography

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the writing about history

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Metafiction

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fiction in which the author of self-consciously alludes to the artificially or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative

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History

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the study of past events, particularly in human affairs; the whole series of past events connected with someone or something

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New Journalism

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A style of news writing/journalism from the 1960s and 70s that uses literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time, characterized by a subjective perspective style, a literary style reminiscent of long-form nonfiction; Emphasize “truth” over fact; Scene-by-scene writing; Filling in blanks of memory (ie. what peoples said) but making that effort

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Postmodern Epistemology

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a philosophical direction which is critical of certain foundational assumptions of Western philosophy and especially of the 18th-century Enlightenment. It emphasizes the importance of power relationships, personalization and discourse in the "construction" of truth and world views

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Radical Relativism

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Holds that cultural is the sole source of the validity of a moral right or rule

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Short Story

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a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel

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Skepticism

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doubt as to the truth of something; A theory that certain knowledge is impossible

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Actor

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a person whose profession is acting on the stage, in movies, or on television; a person who behaves in a way that is not genuine

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Cisgender

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denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their biological sex

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Gender

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the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)

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Patriarchy

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a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line; a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

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Play

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a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading

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Puritan

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a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

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Sex

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either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions

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Transgender

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denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender

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Transvestism

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the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex