Defenitions Flashcards
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The representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works.
Characterization
Is the name often given to the manner in which texts all sorts contain references to other texts that’s have, in some way, contributed to their production and signification.
Intertextuality
Covers a range of developments in art, literature, music and philosophy, spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Romanticism
Masculine
Terror, obscurity, apprehension, passion, excitement, confusion, and infinity.
Associated with raging seas and rushing waterfalls
Is caused by terror, fear, the apprehension of pain or death obscurity power.
The sublime
The term refers more specifically to the sequence of imagined events that we reconstruct from the actual arrangement of a narrative plot.
Story
The pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work, as selected and arranged both the emphasize relationships-usually of cause and effect- between incidents and to elicit a particular kind of interest in the reader or audience, such as surprise or suspense
Plot
The process of making a work of art upon the basis of elements provided by an earlier work in a different, usually literary, medium; also the secondary work thus produced.
Adaptation
The reasoned discussion of literary works, an activity which may include some or all of the following procedures, in varying proportions: the defence of literature against moralists and censors, classification of a work according to its genre, interpretation of its meaning, analysis of its structure and style, judgement of its worth by comparison with other works, estimation of its likely effect on readers, and the establishment of general principles by which literary works can be evaluated and understood.
Criticism
A statement of theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved
Thesis
Is a pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verses.
Metre
Is a metrical unit of verse, having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, as in the word ‘destroy’
Iamb
Is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
Alliteration
Repeated vowel sounds.
Assonance
The repetition of consonant sounds.
Consonance
Is the repeated “ss” sounds
Sibilance
A group of verse lines forming a section of a poem and sharing the same structure as all or some of the other sections of the same poem.
Stanza
A folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner some popular story usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend.
Ballad
A kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent ‘audience’ of one or more persons.
Dramatic monologue
The running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause.
Enjambment
A kind of poetry that does not conform to any regular metre: the length of its lines is irregular, as it is its use of rhyme-if any.
Free verse
A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in successive lines, clauses, or sentences.
Anaphora
The broad class of fiction that is easily identifiable as belonging within any of the recognized genres, especially of popular novel or romance such as science fiction, detective story, thriller, western, historical romance, or live story.
Genre fiction
The age of the protagonists
Voice and perspective
Themes in the text
Young adult fiction
Ann imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.
Dystopia