Literary Terms
an implied comparison between two or more things
What is metaphor?
the perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Repetition of beginning sounds/letters in consecutive words
What is alliteration?
A direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
Pierre Bourdieus three CAPITALS.
What are economic, social and cultural capital?
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Rhythm
what the text is mainly about
What is central idea?
A scene that interrupts the normal sequence of events to tell something that happened in an earlier time.
What is 'flashback'?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
What is 'allusion'?
a color, image, etc. that has a meaning beyond its literal appearance
What is a symbol?
The five classes in the UK.
What are working, lower middle, middle, upper middle and upper class?
A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
What is a stanza?
A tension or problem in a text - it can both be 'inner' and 'outer'
What is conflict?
a quality in an author's voice which shows what they are feeling or thinking
What is tone?
a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning
What is connotation?
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
What is personification?
When working with the theme 'clash of culture', we look at three different attitudes to another culture.
What are cultural relativism, ethnocentrism and parochialism?
In literature, refers to the step-by-step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character
Characterization
An author's use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.
What is 'foreshadowing'?
Descriptive writing that is rich in details connected to the five senses
What is imagery?
the literal definition of a word
What is denotation?
Sequence of events in a story.
What is a plot?
We look at symbols, heroes, rituals and values in different layers - going from outer to inner layers.
What is the onion diagram?
It might have the structure AABB or ABAB
What is a rhyme?
When talking about place, social status and time.
What is 'setting'?
The three types of 3rd. person narrators.
What are 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient (all-knowing) and 3rd person objective?
When an author reveals a character's traits through actions, thoughts, speech, etc., instead of saying it outright
What is indrect/inner characterisation?
A character is ________ when he/she develops through the story, and a character is _________ when he/she stays the same.
What are dynamic and static?
A futuristic, imagined universe in which societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through totalitarian control.
What is 'dystopia'
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work.
What is 'mood'?