English Week Seven

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influence

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a term used by literary historians and critics to describe the effect of earlier writers and their works upon later writers.

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inference

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a general conclusion drawn from particulars

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in medias res

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from Latin, meaning "in the middle of things"; describes the narrative paractice of parting a story in the middle of the action to involve the reader, and then using one of more flashbacks to fill in what led up to that point

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innuendo

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an insinuation; the implication of hint of something derogatory

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intentional fallacy

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a term used in modern criticism to describe what, according to the objective theory of art, is in error; using the author's stated or implied intention to ecaluate of analiyze a literary text

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interior monologue

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the presentation to the reader of the flow of a character's inner emotional experience, or a stream of consciousness, at a particular moment

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intrusive narrator

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a narrator assuming the omniscient point of view who often interrupts the story to comment on the characters and situation or to indulge in philosophical speculation

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invective

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direct denunciation or name-calling, lacks the wit of satire

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inversion

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reversing the normal order of sentence parts

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invocation

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at the beginning of an epic, an appeal to a god or goddess for inspiration