Anne of Green Gables Flashcards
(14 cards)
Temperance
Abstinence from alcoholic drink
Didactic literature
A piece of literature that aims to teach you something
Episodic narrative
A narrative composed of loosely connected incidents- an overarching theme with short stories interspersed
Omniscient
Knows everything
Pastoral
A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life, often associated with Eden
Allegory
A narrative in which the agents, action, and setting is contrived to not only make sense in themselves, but also to signify a second, correlated order of persons, things, concepts, or events
Figurative Language
(covers all devices)
Deviates from what we apprehend as the standard significance or sequence of words, in order to achieve special meaning or effect
Simile
Comparisons between two different things indicated by “like” or “as”
Metaphor
A word which in standard (or literal) usage denotes one kind of thing, quality, or action applied to another, in the form of a statement of identity instead of comparison.
Generally connects two similar things (i.e. both objects)
Purple patch/ “purple prose”
A sudden heightening of rhythm, diction, figurative language that makes a section of verse or prose - especially a descriptive passage - stand out from its context
Dead metaphor
A metaphor that has become so common that we have become desensitized to the metaphoric quality of the phrase
Comedy
A work in which the materials are selected and managed primarily in order to interest us and amuse us; action usually turns out happily for the chief characters
venerable
respectable
bildungs roman
The build-up of a hero-to see if a hero can hold to their moral code and do honour on behalf of their identity and village when they leave home. Can only come home after achieving honour.
