Vocab I
The classification of literature by certain structural types of themes.
What is genre?
A type of irony where the outcome is very different than what would be expected under ordinary circumstances.
What is situation irony?
The following is an example of this point of view: “You bought flowers, pretty flowers, for your own cold grave.”
What is second person POV?
When the tension ends.
What is the resolution?
The one who struggles.
What is the protagonist?
The arrangement of the content in a text.
What is the form?
A type of irony where the reader/audience knows a crucial bit of information that the character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
The following is an example of this POV: “Whenever the dying sun glows in pine-tops, all amber and gold, I think of that walk we took together one summer evening.”
What is first-person POV?
When action is taken to solve the problem or end the tension.
What is the climax?
What is "the one who struggles against"?
The specific word choice of the author.
What is diction?
Since the spiritual world cannot be perceived with the senses, this type of narrative uses concrete language to illustrate a single point about it.
What is a parable?
The following is an example of this POV: "His lips curled upward at the ends, but the skin around his eyes remained still and unwrinkled."
What is objective third-person or dramatic third-person POV?
The point when the problem arises and the tension starts.
What is the complication?
A character who is true-to-life, having psychological complexity.
What is a round character?
Language that speaks about disembodied ideas to the intellect (in contrast to language that speaks about material things to the five senses).
What is abstract language?
A story taken from humanity’s collective unconscious, which does not have a particular moral or message to relate, but which still strikes almost universally at the heart of human experience.
What is myth?
The following is an example of this POV: “He wondered whether other people’s minds worked this way, like a windmill that turns, turns, turns but never really moves or makes headway.”
What is third-person limited-omniscient?
The information needed to get the story going.
What is the exposition?
A character who remains untransformed by the events as they unfold.
What is a static character?
The overall feeling of the work (joyful, gloomy, whimsical, reflective, romantic).
An instructive tale in which there are two plains of meaning and there is a one-to-one relationship between the symbol and symbolized (everything means something else); often, it is framed as a dream and characters are named for the things they symbolize.
What is allegory?
The following is an example of this POV: “With a surge of jealousy, he saw her walking arm-in-arm down the street with another man; he did not know that it was only her brother.”
What is third-person omniscient?
When the protagonist understands what needs to be done and decides whether to do it.
What is the crisis?
A character who adapts and develops with shifting circumstances.
What is a dynamic character?