Terms Of Literary Critism

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Familar

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To understand literature in the context of an author's biography and/or historical period

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Formalist

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To value a literary work for its own intrinsic properties

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Psychological

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To determine meanings that are suggested but not overly stated

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Marxist

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To reveal how those in control of the means of production manipulate the rest and thereby change the system

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Feminist

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To read with heightened awareness of the nature, social roles, and treatment of female characters

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Feminist

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To recognise ignored and undervalued feminine writers

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Reader-Response

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To include the reader in constructing the meaning of a text

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Deconstructionist

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To demonstrate the multiplicity of meanings in a given text

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New Historicist

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To understand text as a product and maker of complex and sometimes conflicting historical forces

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PreColonialist

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To examine the literature of colonized peoples and that of the desendants of their colonizers, featuring what happens wen one culture is dominated by another

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Multiculturalist

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To identify and analyze the literatures of racial and ethnic minorities in order to discover their unique characteristics and world views

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech that is exaggerated for effect

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

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Conceit (controlling methphor)

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A metaphor that dominates and oragnizes the entire poem

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that combines 2 contradictory elements together

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Personification

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Figurative Language that gives a non-human subject human qualities

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Similie

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike subjects using like or as

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of works with different endings

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Cacophony

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Harsh, jarring sounds within lines of poetry

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Euphony

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Flowing, pleasant sounds within lines of poetry

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates a sound

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Parallelism

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When the writer uses a gramatical patern and repeats it

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Repetition

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The use, more than one, of any element of language- can be a sound, a word, a phrase, a sentance, or a gramatical pattern

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Grammatical Structure

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Within the lines of poetry there are incomplete sentences or special usage of punctuation, capitalization, or spacing

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Imagery

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Words or phrases tht appeal to one or more of the ive senses

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Irony

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A situation characterized by a difference between what is expected and what really occurs

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Cosmic Irony

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A type of irony that implies tat God or fate ontrol an toys with human feelings, lives, and outcomes

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Mood

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The atmosphere or feeling created by the reader

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Sarcasm

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A form of verbal irony in which praise is harsh an bitterly critical

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Theme

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The central message, concern, or insight into life expresses by the literary work

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Tone

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The attitude towards the subject and audience onveyed by the language and rhythm o the speaker in a literary work

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same words at the beg. of 2 or more lines

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Catalogue

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List of items

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Cesura

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Pause or reak in a line or verse (dramatic event)

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Enjambment

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Continuation of a sentance and gramat. conlusion of a line onto the verse

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Endstopped

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Lines in which Gramat. sentance and sense reach conclusionat the end of the line (periods)