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16 Cards in this Set
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allusive method
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ambiguity
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a poetic device that uses a single word or expression to signify or express two or more references, attitudes, or feelings |
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attunement
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- becoming receptive, aware, or harmonious with something - in Zadie Smith's case, this was sudden and involved Joni Mitchell |
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epiphany
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- a flash of awareness or self-recognition - used to be a strictly religious term that referred to "a manifestation" of God's presence - Joyce used it to describe revelation from perceiving a commonplace object - older authors used to call it the moment |
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free indirect discourse
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- allows internal and external perspectives to overlap - usually does not use tag-phrases like 'he thought' - takes on the tone of the characters thoughts - Austen |
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gnomon in math
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- what's left of a parallelogram after a similar parallelogram containing one of its corners has been removed |
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gnomon in literature
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- missing bits of information that make it impossible for us to arrive at stable interpretations - leads to a lot of speculation I.e. limited narration, ellipses (trailing off), etc. |
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intertextuality (intertextual allusion)
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- how texts echo, respond to, and transform other texts - popularized by Julia Kristeva |
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limited point of view |
- the narrator sticks with one character's perspective - their thoughts, emotions, memories and perceptions |
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metonymy |
- a name change - the name of an attribute or thing is substituted for the thing itself |
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palinode |
- a poem or poetic passage in which the poet retracts an earlier poem or type of subject matter |
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paralysis |
- being incapable of physical movement - spiritual, social, cultural, political, and historical malaise |
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scrupulous meanness |
- Joyce - a balance of sympathy and objectivity - subtle commentary |
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simony |
- the sale of material goods for spiritual benefit - making religion, intellect, and romance vulgar |
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stream of conciousness |
- a phrase used by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890) - a mode of narration that aims to show the full spectrum and continuous flow of a character's mental process - the senses mingle with conscious and half-conscious thoughts, feelings, and random associations |
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synecdoche |
- the part signifies the whole, or (sometimes) the whole signifies the part - "wheels" to stand for an automobile |
