techniques Flashcards
(25 cards)
Prose?
spoken language in its original tone with no metrical structure
Allusion
An indirect reference to someting or someone
Ambience
tone/location and setting
Allegory
When something in literature represents a real life concept
Analepsis/prolepsis
A flashback/flash foward
Androcentric
being focused with men!
Anthropomorphism
When non human figures are given human qualities
Anti-climax
when an expected climax doesnt appear
Anti hero
A character who doesn’t act morally virtuous but a protagonist
Bathos
being exceedingly pathetic to being ridiculous
Black comedy
horrific situations treated with comedy
Caesura
A natural pause in a sentence
Catharsis
An emotional release
stitchomythia
back and forth diolouge either talking over or having a strong connection
courtly love
An idealised love due to social class
Denouncement
Final resolution for the plot
Double plot
A main plot and a subplot
Epithet
A title
Exaggerated Hyperbole
‘as big as a mouse’
paradox
a contradiction to save the plot
pathetic fallacy
when human emotions are described through weather and setting
perpertia
an unexpected reverse in fortune
prolific
lots of
subsiquently
means like additionily
