NIGGERS Flashcards
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What is Metatheatre?
A technique where the play self-consciously acknowledges its theatricality. Challenges realism and explores themes of identity, illusion, and performance.
What is Parataxis?
Use of short, simple sentences without coordination. Produces urgency, fragmentation, or abruptness in tone.
What is Hypotaxis?
Use of subordinate clauses and complex sentence structure. Creates sophistication, control, or hierarchical emphasis.
What is Analepsis?
A narrative shift to past events. Deepens character background, reveals trauma or thematic origin.
What is Prolepsis?
A narrative leap into future events. Builds foreshadowing, irony, or a sense of inevitability.
What is Idiolect?
A character’s distinctive speech pattern or vocabulary. Reveals class, personality, education, or psychological state.
What is Volta?
A rhetorical or tonal turning point. Marks thematic or emotional shifts in a speech or scene.
What is Lexical Field?
A group of semantically linked words. Reinforces dominant themes, moods, or perspectives.
What is Bathos?
A sudden lapse from the serious or elevated to the trivial or absurd. Undermines tone or creates ironic disjuncture.
What is Zoomorphism?
Assigning animal qualities to humans. Highlights primal instincts, power, or dehumanisation.
What is Epizeuxis?
Immediate repetition of a word or phrase. Emphasises intensity, urgency, or obsession.
What is Synaesthesia?
Describing one sensory experience in terms of another (e.g. ‘sharp sound’). Conveys psychological disorientation or emotional complexity.
What is Catachresis?
Deliberate misuse or strained metaphors. Emphasises confusion, trauma, or abstract intensity.
What is Aposiopesis?
A sudden breaking-off in speech. Suggests emotion, trauma, or unspeakability.
What is Periphrasis?
Talking around a subject using vague or euphemistic language. Avoids direct confrontation of traumatic or controversial content.
What is Echolalia?
Repetition of another speaker’s words. Can suggest psychological instability, trauma, or submission.
