Literary Terms
Compares two things that aren't alike by using the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison.
What is a 'simile'?
In this story, Alison looks back at her childhood with particular focus on her relationship with her father.
What is "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel.
These are the three categories in style of writing.
What are 'words and phrases', 'language Features' and 'sentence forms'?
A fictional text which is not very long and has few characters and a simple plot.
What is a 'short story'?
This method of analysis focuses on how the society in which the text is written has impacted the writer is reflected in the text.
What is 'historical criticism'?
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is 'blank verse'?
"A Model of Christian Charity".
What is the speech by John Winthrop he gave to the pilgrims onboard the Arabella on the way to the 'new world' aka America.
These are the texts dealing with the topic 'Belonging'.
What are "Assembly", "The Long Goodbye" (both album and short film), "District 9" and "This Is England"?
A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
What is a sonnet?
We used this method of analysis on "Love Doll: A Fable".
What is 'gender criticism'?
Metaphor.
What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them (as in the ship plows the sea)
This text takes place in an insane asylum on the border between India and Pakistan.
What is "Toba Tek Singh"?
This is called 'Partition'.
What is the devision of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947?
A song played at a slow tempo, but have big sounding musical backings with rock elements, like distorted guitars, loud, heavy drums and belting vocals. And castanets!
What is a 'power ballad'?
This is 'Imagined Communities'.
Benedict Andersons theory on how nations are build on physical items as flag and passport as well as language and common history.
The effect of any kind of repetition.
What is 'making the audience pay attention to something particular as well as creating rhythm and making clear the main message.
This story has mass-psychology as one of the main themes and can be put into perspective by comparing it to "The Hunger Games".
What is "The Lottery"?
A style of journalism which uses a lot of effects borrowed from fiction and often begin with 'a donkey'.
What is 'narrative nonfiction'?
A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God.
What is 'the great chain of being'?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence.
What is 'anaphora'?
This text is a 'fantastic tale'.
What is "Here there Be Tygers"?
The genre of "Assembly".
What is a minimalist novel.
This is the philosophical issues Hamlet struggle with in the play by the same name.
What is 'existentialism'?