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Year 12 Literature > Literary Vocab > Flashcards

Literary Vocab Flashcards

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Conceit

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Extended metaphor

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Peroration

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Conclusion of a speech

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Monosyllabic

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Single syllable

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Convoluted

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Confused and ambiguous statement

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Vexation

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Frustration

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Nuanced

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Subtle meaning, not straitforward

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Poignant

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Evoking sadness

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Melancholic

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Feeling or expressing pensive sadness

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Sardonic

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Grimly mocking, cynical

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Cerebral

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Intellectual rather than emotional

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Introspective

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Contemplative

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Multifaceted

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Different aspects

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Ebullient

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Cheerful, full of energy

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Sagacious

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Wise

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15
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Ephemeral

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Lasting for a short time

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Obfuscate

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Render obscure

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17
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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect in a gradual way

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic

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Solecism

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Bad manners, grammatical mistake

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Pulchritudinous

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Beauty

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21
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Defenstration

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Throwing someone out a window, or a person of authority talking to someone below them

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Ebullition

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Sudden outbursts of emotion

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Obdurate

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Stubborness to change

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Sagacity

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Mental discernment and good judgement

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Metamorphosis

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Profound change in form

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Caharsis

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Releasing emotion

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Epiphany

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Sudden realisation

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Circumlocution

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Use of many words to be vague

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Perspicaciousness

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Having insight and understanding

29
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Reticence

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Reluctance to speak

30
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Concatenation

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Series of events

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Unctuousness

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Excessively flattering

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Querelousness

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Constantly complaining

33
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Transmorgify

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Transform surprisingly

34
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Non-Diagetic sound

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Sound the character’s can’t hear, but we can. E.g narration

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Diagetic sound

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Sound the characters and the audience can hear

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Metafiction

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Fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, often blurring the boundary between fiction and reality.

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Dramatic Irony

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When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not

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Epistolary

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A novel or other work presented in the form of letters or correspondence

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Stream of Consciousness

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A narrative mode that attempts to capture the flow of thoughts and feelings running through a character’s mind

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Juxtaposition

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The act or placement of two things (usually abstract concepts, though it can also refer to physical objects) near each other

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Anachronism

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Placing something out of its proper historical time period

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

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Bildungsroman

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A novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education.

45
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Magical Realism

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A literary genre in which magical elements are a natural part of an otherwise mundane, realistic environment

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Epiphany

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A moment of sudden revelation or insight

47
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Pathetic Fallacy

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attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature

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Zeugma

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A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses.

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

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Dystopia

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An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic

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Euphemism

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A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

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Neologism

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A newly coined word or expression

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Syllepsis

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A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses.

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Litotes

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Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

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Paradox

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A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true.

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Cacophony

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A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

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Euphony

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The quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words

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Polysyndeton

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The use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted. Example: repeating and where commas could be used.

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asyndeton

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the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence, as in I came, I saw, I conquered.

60
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Chiasmus

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A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order

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