English9: Literary Terms, Poetry Terms, And Vocab

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autobiagraphy

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author's acount or story on his or her own life

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biography

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narrative of someone written by another person.

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connotation

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set of assosiations that a word calls to mind.

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denotation

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exact meaning of a word, dictionary.

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didatic

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literature instructs or presents a moral or religious statement

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essay

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piece of writing written pros, nonfiction, expresses individual's point of view

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exposition

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a paper that contains all information
ex. indescent exposure

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memoir

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an author's account of his life or some part of it. He speaks of the times he witnessed as well as himself.

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narrative

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a story, the succession of events that make up the stroy.

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precis

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consise summary or response to another piece of writing.

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rhetoric

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using words effectively, art or persuading, using things like diction, tone, and pronounciation (writing and speaking)

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cliche

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a phrase or expressioin that has lost its force and has become stale because of continual use, "busy as bee" "clinging like a vine"

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consistant character

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fully developed, acts the same

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developing character

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grows and changes in the course of the novel

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flat character

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less important character

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motivated character

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some one with goals, ex. mattie

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plausible character

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believable, makes sense

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round character

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lots of different aspects, more than one side

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static

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never changes, not fully developed, minor character

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episode

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within chapters, or across a couple chapters.

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escape literature

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a kind of lit. that takes you away from reality.

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Fantasy

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lit. that takes you away from reality to a magical place. unusual, unreal places and characters.

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Fiction

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literary work invented lit. work invented by the imagination, esp a prose narrative. A distinction in prose works is made between fiction and nonfiction.

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Foil

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a character that is like another character or opposite less important character

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motivation

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the causes for a character's actions

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novel

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extended prose fiction, made up of a nukber of episodes, focuses on the development of characters

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novella

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a short novel, 100 pages or less. narrator knows everything that needs to be known and can move at wil among characters.

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paradox

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when two thigns exsist that seem to contradict eachother

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pathos

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what the author makes you feel when you feel sentimental about characters.

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satire

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points out an error that people are making,create come humor, but educate.

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stream of consciousness

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variation of first person , try to immitata people's thoughts

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subplot

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smaller, quicker plots
ex. Taylor working at the burger derby

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alliteration

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words that are together empathizing the same consonant sound that it begins with

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allusion

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author says something that makes you think of something else

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ballad

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a song or poem that tells a story in short stanzas and in simple words

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consonance

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a poetic rhyming device in which there is a close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different words."flip-flop"

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convention

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unrealistic device that the public agrees to tolerate, grows to accept as normal, a

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diction

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the choice and arrangement or words, important element of style,

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epic

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extended narrative poem, exalted in style and heroic in theme.

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figurative language

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expression, such as a metaphor or simile, used to create vivied dramatic effect not to be taken literally

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foot

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a group of syllables forming a metrical unit

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free verse

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poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic forms.

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hyperbole

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exaggerated statement

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iambic pentameter

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5 feet, de don de don de don de don de don.
shakespere

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imagery

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sensory content of litrary work, provided ny the writer through figurative language and concrete detail

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lyric

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short poem, writer expresses emotion

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metaphor

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comparing something to something else, not using like or as

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meter

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pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in aline of poetry.

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onomotopoeia

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a word that imitates a sound

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oxymoron

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qn opposite "Jumbo Shrimp" "Criminal law"

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pacing

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speed that author moves along with the actionof his story

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personification

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giving human characteristics to non-human things

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poem/poetry

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lit composistion in verse, especially one expressing deep feeling or noble though in imaginative.

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rhyme

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repetition of identical or similar stressed sounds. Not always essential, but popular

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rhythm

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the sense of movement attributable to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a lone of prose or poetry

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stanza

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division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains, couplet, triplet..

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scansion

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process of figuring out poem's metrical pattern... stressed and unstressed sylables marked

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simile

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comparisin of two unlike things inwhich a word of comparison(like/as) is used

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stressed/unstressed

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relative force given to a word or syllable in spoken language, which is the basis for the patterns of meter in poetry

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tone

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writer's attitude toward his subject, as the reader infers it.