Definitions 1
_________are the associated feelings or ideas that a particular word evokes.
Connotation
Refers to the author's choice of words.
Diction
"O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done,..."
Caesura
"We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We"
Enjabment
When describing an intense flooding situation: “It rained a bit more than usual.”
Understatement
A ____________remains unchanged throughout the course of a narrative.
Static Character
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in adjacent words.
Alliteration
Romeo enters the tomb thinking Juliet is dead and drinks poison to be with Juliet in death. Juliet, however, wakes just after he dies. In her grief, she kills herself.
Dramatic Irony
"I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far."
Old Time on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Hyperbole
The beat or the flow of a poem. It is made up of beat and repetition, so it usually refers to features of sound. It is created by stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or a verse.
Rhythm
The act of giving and/or using detail or references that prove important later in a text.
Foreshadowing
The cleansing or purging of emotion in or caused by a literary work.
Catharsis
One October day in nineteen-seventeen- (said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel) — I was walking along from one place to another half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns.
Flashback
On Christmas Eve, he is led through the past, present, and future by three ghosts who show him the effects his attitude has on people he loves.
Epiphany
A form of writing that shows the accent and way people talk in a particular region.
"Who ask you be genius?" (my mother) shouted. "Only ask you be your best. For you sake. You think I want you be genius? Hnnh! What for! Who ask you!"
Dialect
The repetition of vowel sounds in adjacent words
Assonance
A ______________ undergoes a significant character change throughout the narrative.
Dynamic Character
What do these pairs represent?:
Foils
“His tender heir might bear his memory”
Assonance
__________is an idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story. It's any story element that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience.
Archetype
Refers to a sudden realization or discovery of the truth or meaning of things.
Epiphany
A reference to something outside a text. This can be a reference to an event, or person from history, mythology, pop culture, or something else.
Allusion
The following are an example of:
"Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel."
"He's a cool guy, but he becomes a lovesick Romeo every time he's around her."
Allusion
Harry learns about the motivations of Severus Snape. After Snape’s death, Harry learns that Snape had always been in love with Harry’s mother.
“One person. All it takes is one person. I couldn’t save Harry for Lily. So now I give my allegiance to the cause she believed in. And it’s possible — that along the way I started believing in it myself.”
Catharsis
It is the interplay and interconnectedness between different texts, where the meaning of one text is shaped or influenced by its relationship with other texts.
Intertextuality