Thursday, February 6, 2014

Lit terms 5

Parallelism: creating two seperate ideas in a novel that never come together at any point.
Parody:a comic relief of a popular or well known subject to induce humor
Pathos:the literary tool of connecting the reader to the subject matter of he story.
Pedantry: excessive concern of minor details of factors.
Personification:giving human like qualities to non human things
Plot:the direction and occurences in a story, the events that occur
Poignant: evoking a keen sense if panic or regret
Point of view: the frame of view where the story is being told or described.
Postmodernism: a style of writing most known for its conflict with moral or ethic descitions
Prose:the rythem in which the author writes or delivered speach
Purpose: the reason the author chose to write about a subject, what they want to debate.
Realism:writing style characteristic of harsh reality. Post romantic where the world seems cruel
Refrain:a small pause in which characters in a story may gather their thoughts or prepare for something.
Requiem:a demand that is non negotionoble and unavoidable
Resolution: the point of a story where loose ends are tied and the climax is finally settled.
Restatement: a re wording of a phrase  or  point to clarify a point that was attempted to be made.
Rhetoric: the art of using fluid persuasive vocabulary to aid your argument or statement.
Rhetorical questions: questions asked for dramatic effect which are not ment to be answered
Rising action: pre climax buildup of tension used to create drama in a story.
Romantiscism: a largely fictional genre where a hero goes on a innocent quest to find some truth.
Satyre: a play off a darker aspect of life or society used to express exasperation at injustice.
Scansion: determining the meter or length of verse
Setting: the time and place of a story to occur as well as the characters involved

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