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30 Cards in this Set
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Exemplum
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A moralized tale made by use of illustration and example.
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Explication
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AA method- which originated in the teaching of literature in France- involving the painstaking analysis of meanings, relationships, and ambiguities of the words, images, and other small units that make up a literary work.
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Ex Cathedra
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with the full authority of office- esp. the church
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Fable
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A brief tale told to pint a moral- characters are frequently animals, but people and objects are sometimes central.
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Fairy Tale
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A story relating mysterious pranks and adventures of spirits who manifest themselves in the form of diminutive human beings.
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Fantasy
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Usually designates a conscious breaking from reality.
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Fatalism
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The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.
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Figures of Speech
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The various uses of language that depart from customary construction, order, and significance.
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Flashback
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A device by which a work presents material that occurs prior to the opening scene of the work.
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Foil
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Any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another.
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Folktale
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A short narrative handed down through oral tradition, with various storytellers and groups modifying it, so it acquires cumulative authorships.
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Foreshadowing
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The presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for.
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Freudianism
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Criticism based on psychological speculations
Id: the unconscious and a reservoir for impulses- gratification of desires through the pleasure principle. Superego: internal censore bringing social pressures to bear on the id. Ego: the part of the id that is modified by coming into contact with the social world...a balancing of the superego and id. |
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Genre
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Used to designate the types of categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or sometimes, subject matter.
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Hamartia (Tragic Flaw)
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The error, frailty, mistaken judgement, or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of a tragedy are reversed.
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Heuristic
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Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.
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Hubris
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Overweening pride or insolence that results i misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy.
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration. The figure may be used to heighten effect or it may be used for humor.
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Idiolect
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A person's particular language- vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation- that is slightly different from everyones else's.
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Idiom
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A use of words peculiar to a given language; an expression that cannot be translated literally.
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Idyll
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A term describing one or another of the poetic genres that are short and possess marked descriptive, narrative, and pastoral qualities.
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Imagery
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The collection of images in a literary work
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Imagism
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Group of poets: avoid the cliche, use the exact word (not near-exact), create new rhythms as the expression of new moods, present an image, strive for concentration (essence of poetry), suggest rather than offer complete statements.
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In Medias Res
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"In or into the middle parts of things"- applies to a literary technique of opening a story in the middle of the action and then supplying information from the beginning of the action through flashbacks and other devices for exposition.
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Innuendo
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An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one
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Intentional Fallacy
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The judging of the meaning of success or a work of art by the author's expressed or ostensible intention in producing it.
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Interior Monologue
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One of the techniques for presenting the stream of consciousness of a character.
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Interlude
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A kind of drama that is extremely short; a play or dialogue between two persons.
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Leitmotiv (leitmotif)
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A recurrent repetition of some word, phrase, situation, or idea, such as tends to unify a work through its power to recall earlier occurrences.
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Malapropism
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An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the ise of one word for another, which resembles it.
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