Literary Crit Terms

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in a figurative sense, a standard of judgemen; a criterion

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Canon

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3 elements
1)a story
2)told in action
3)by actors who impersonate characters

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Drama

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a narrative having the characteristics of the Icelandic sagas; heroic achievement or adventure

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Saga

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exaggeration; used to heighten effect, or it may be used for humor

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Hyperbole

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Greek comedy of the fifth century BC performed at festivals of Dionysus

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Old Comedy

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a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds

used in criticism of poetry, also employed to indicate any disagreeable sound effect in other forms of writing

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Cacophony

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The misspelling of a word to suggest, even though the common pronunciation of the word is what the speaker said

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Eye Dialect

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a kind of storytelling in which the writing gives the appearence or impression of being thoroghly objective, realistic, and anatomical

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Camera Eye Narration

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incompleteness of the last foot of a line; truncation by onission of one or two final syllables

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catalexis

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a romantic tale in verse

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metrical romances

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any extended fictional narrative almost slways in prose

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novel

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a rare nineteenth-century architectural term revived by Eugene Jolas to designate a mode of aesthetic thought associated with some of the writers who contributed to "Transition"

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verticalism

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a conclusion
usually restates or summarizes the preceding themes or movements

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coda

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an invocation that calls one a supernatural being to vistit evil on someone

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curse

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gossip
a book that records such sayings and anecdotes

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Ana

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another name for the "tail" or short line found in certain verse forms

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cauda

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a term denovating one or more extra unaccented syllables at the beginning of a verse before the regular rhythm of the line makes its appearance

upward or back beat

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anacrusis

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popular during the medieval period
habits of beasts, birds, and reptiles were made the text for allegory; called bestians..ascribed human attributed to animals and were designed to moralize and to expound church doctrine

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bestiary

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a medieval French metrical romance emphasizing love as the central force in the plot

drew on conditions of courtly love

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breton romance

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the text or book containing the story, tale, or plot of an opera or of any long musical composition - a cantata

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libretto