Structure - Poetry
What is a line?
A struggle (the problem in the story)
What is Conflict?
The person or character telling the story
Who is the Narrator?
When an author uses hints or clues about the future of a story, it's because they're employing this technique.
What is foreshadowing?
What happens in the story
What is Plot?
Oh that's easy! It's the state where your pal Dr. Linebaugh grew up! it's famous for being "the nutmeg state" even though there's no nutmeg there.
What is Connecticut?
Stanza
The choice of words an author uses
What is diction?
One of the characters in the story is telling the story about themselves, using pronouns like I and me.
What is First-Person Point of View?
The author's attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is tone?
A scene or fragment of a previous time in the story, or of some element of the past.
What is a flashback?
No, you can't call me 'coach.' It just seems weird, even if i do serve as 'coach' of these two extracurriculuars. (need both to get it right!)
What are quiz bowl and climbing?
Instead of "narrator", when analyzing poetry we use this term to discuss who is doing the talking.
What is a Speaker?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
What is personification?
This narrative voice seems to be addressing the reader directly, as with Akunna in "The Thing Around Your Neck"
What is second-person Point of View?
A reference to something else--often another artistic work--in literature.
What is an Allusion?
What is Frame Narrative?
This University is the one where i used to teach, and where two of my degrees are from. It's also the one i have two pennants of hanging in my office downstairs.
What is Lehigh University? (BEAT LAF!)
This poetic form comes in English and Italian varieties and (just about) always has 14 lines. Rita Dove's one of these was "In Primary Colors".
What is a sonnet?
This term describes the feeling that literature is creating in the reader.
What is mood?
~Outside narrator
~Not a character in the story
~Knows the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters (all, everything)
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
This figurative device is rooted in direct comparison, and can fit a broad range of applications. A comparison without like or as can be one, but an entire work can also be one!
What is a metaphor?
This primary division of dramatic works divides dialogue an action into specific places. When a work switches from one of these to the next, it's typically an indication of a small shift in place or time.
What is a scene?
Good memory (you must have seen that on our homepage for class)! This name is the name of any of my 4 pets.
(just one for credit)
Who are Pepper, Millie, Ollie, or Chicken Nugget?
What is a couplet?
Repetition of consonant sounds
What is Alliteration?
Related to point of view as well as stylistic technique, this term applies to a narrative where a character's internal thoughts blend and mix with narration, sometimes making for psychological or dreamlike style.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
The term for a type or subtype of text, which can include not just books but movies, poems, and other texts. Examples of this include Westerns, Sci-fi, realist novels, or anime.
What is Genre?
This type of structure applies when the chronology of a plot is mixed up. Events may take place out of order or in confusing timelines relative to each other if an author uses this technique.
What is nonlinear narrative?
It's because i very nearly made Irish Literature my sole academic specialty that this 20th Century Irish author has an entire shelf in my office dedicated to his work (and work about his life and books).
Who is James Joyce?
This poetic structure encompasses a range of styles. Examples of it are typically unrhymed but may have lots of different combinations of other structuring elements?
What is Free Verse?
Tools the writer uses to create a character
~Description
~Character's speeches/actions
~Character's thoughts/feelings
~Reactions/Opinions of other characters
What is characterization?
A character or other figure who tells a story but who gives readers signals that they may not be entirely truthful.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The direct insertion of a part or whole of text (rather than just a reference) into a literary work?
What is Interpolation?
These larger divisions in dramatic works typically mark major divisions in the plot as well as significant changes in time and place. Very short dramatic works are known as "One-____s"
What is an Act?
He's an American hero in my book, and we just recently passed the 164th anniversary of his historic raid on Harper's Ferry. But in Linebaugh terms, he's the abolitionist radical who is my email and Teams avatar.