English 200 Terms

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Persona vs. speaker

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specific character of the speaker VS. voice used by the author to create a character

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image

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language that addresses the senses

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metaphor

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comparison without using LIKE or AS

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simile

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comparison using LIKE or AS

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metonymy

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a type of metaphor in which something closely associated w. a subject is substituted for it ex: The White House=President

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personification

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metaphor attributing human characteristics to a non-human thing

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symbol- conventional:

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obvious, banking on a common cultural experience

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symbol- literary:

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contextual, a conventional symbol with reworked meaning specific to text

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alliteration

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words beginning with the same letter

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assonance

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similar sounding words after one another (same sane)

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consonance

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identical consonant sounds w. different vowel sounds (home same)

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oxymoron

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2 opposite concepts brought together to describe 1 common subject

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irony (verbal)

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stating obvious and pointedly meaning the opposite

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apostrophe

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an address to absent person or non-human, non-comprehending object (ex: Wordsworths' Milton)

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ambiguity

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allows for 2 or more simultaneous interpretations of a single word (ex: Olds' 'come' in "sex without love")

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meter

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rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem

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feet

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mertrical units by which poetry is measured

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iamb

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unstressed + stressed

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trochee

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stressed + unstressed

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anapest

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unstressed + unstressed + stressed

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dactyl

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stressed + unstressed + unstressed

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caesura

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pause within a line of poetry

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enjambment

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line in poetry unending and without punctuation that continues to the next line

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sonnets

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14 lines, iambic pentameter

Shakespearean: 3 quatrains + 1 couplet
Italian: 1 octave + 1 sestel

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open form

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poetry without adherence to specific patterns of rhyme, meter, stanza

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story vs. narrative discourse

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collection of all possible events that happen in a predetermined period of time VS. a version of a tale, selection and arrangement of various events during a pre-determined period (re-presentation)

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constituent vs. supplementary events

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events essential to the story's progression VS. "extras" in a fiction text; still important

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diegesis

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world of the text

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heterodiegetic

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narrator outside of text

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homodiegetic

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narrator closely involved in text

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Freytag's Pyramid

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exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion

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complication

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during rising action

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focalization

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the lens through which we see characters and events in the narrative; source to find sense of conflict

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theme

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may be abstract OR concrete

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motif

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concrete ONLY

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conflict

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jumping-off point or source of textual interpretation

man vs: nature, man, self, society

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flat vs. round characters

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few dimensions or complexities vs. many in a character

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agon

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the chief conflict that is the basis of the plot

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soliloquy

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a charcter alone on stage speaks in monologue; technique of informing audience of inner thoughts of character

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aside

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speech directed to audience or character that supposedly is not audible to other on stage at the time

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3 unities of classical drama

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time, setting and action

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law of re-entry

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offstage time must be sufficiently long to conceivably complete task