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Allegory
is a symbolic representation
Allusion
reference from culture
Ambiguity
*ambiguous
taken 1+ ways

(like good can be interpreted as useful/functional)
Anachronism
sticking something in the wrong time period.. like a clock in the Ice Age.
Analogy
comparison, similarity (to show how it is are alike)

not a metaphor/simile
http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/f/qanalogy07.htm
Anecdote
short fun story (wtf)
Aphorism
statement of life
Apostrophe
talking to things not there

(NOT NECESSARILY DEAD) like a doll/idea or person not there..


O Captain! My Captain!
"Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me~"
Archetype
An ideal example of a type
prototype
Attitude
judgments

dislike/like for something; they can be positive/negative or ambivalent (both)
Begging the question
fallacy
assumes what should be proving

It begs the questions, (1) how did he do it, and (2) why?
Characterization

there's Direct
and Indirect
Direct: what characteristics?
She had dirt brown hair etc...

Indirect: revealed by actions and reactions
Colloquialism
informal speech
"you're"

slang is
"Y'all"..
l33t
lol
Connotation
emotion to a word/phrase
Cynicism
negative guy
Denotation
dictionary meaning
Diction
choice of words

"nice diction"
Dynamic character
big internal changes in story for that character
ethos
pathos
logos
ethics - authority
feelings
logic - reasons..

all persuasion
Euphemism
less offensive expression

ex: pass away
Explication
detailed explanation to make explicit/clear
Figurative language
images

http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/figurative_language.htm
Flat Character
not much characterization
Foil
character contrast w/ another

__ is a foil to __
frame story
A narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales.

like an anime, basically
What genre is that?
* Autobiography, Memoir, Spiritual autobiography
* Biography
* Diaries and Journals
* Erotic literature
* Essay
* Fable, Fairy tale, Folklore
* Fiction
o Adventure novel
o Comic novel
o Crime fiction
+ Detective fiction
o Fantasy (for more details see Fantasy subgenres; fantasy literature)
o Gothic fiction (initially synonymous with horror)
o Historical fiction
o Holocaust
o Horror
o Medical novel
o Mystery fiction
o Philosophical novel
o Political fiction
o Romance novel
+ Historical romance
o Saga, Family Saga
o Satire
o Science fiction (for more details see Science fiction genre)
o Slave narrative
o Stream of conciousness
o Thriller
+ Conspiracy fiction
+ Legal thriller
+ Psychological thriller
+ Spy fiction/Political thriller
o Tragedy
* Short Story
* Thoughts, Proverbs
I nearly died laughing
Hyperbole exaggerated statement
Irony
dramatic
situational
verbal
1) audience knows
2) what's expected doesn't happen
3) says one thing means other
Jargon
for specific activity

like..medical jargon.. masticate (chew)

jargon is not slang, words are true
Litotes
deny opposite

She's not unattractive
Lyric
poem line personal feelings of speaker
Memoir
autobiography
metonymy
calling king crown
and
car
wheels
nadir
lowest point of person's spirit

or below you
narrator
entity w/in story

narrator is not the author like in satire
Oxymoron
combining opposite/contradicting terms
oxymoron is an oxymoron

sweet sorrow
Parable
short story that has a point

Fable is the same but uses animals

btw.. again Anecdote of the chair (short story)
Paradox
true but false (ahah!)
Parody
imitation
mocking
Point of view

1st
3rd
Omni

Objective
I, we
she, he, they

all knowing

impersonal
Refutation
prove wrong
Static character
is static






......no change
Round character
is fat.. cause of all the characterizing
Satire
needs to want to bring a change.. it ridicules the shortcomings
Soliloquy
long speech to no one
Stream of consciousness
portrays inner working of mind
Style
way of rhetoric
Syllogism
logical agruement
Synecdoche
part represents whole

capital spoke as gov
Tone
Mood
Attitude of writer

what's the emotional environment created?