Literary Devices
the three types of irony
verbal, situational, dramatic
the use of a line break to interrupt the sense and/or grammatical construction of an idea
enjambment
the term used for many narrators who are drunk, deceptive, immature, excessively proud, excessively insecure, etc.
unreliable
an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story
flashback/analepsis
TTTC: the names of both characters whom we are told blame themselves for Kiowa's death
Norman Bowker, Tim O'Brien
the hugely important and common figurative device of which personification and symbolism are essentially specialized, specific iterations
metaphor
a pause in the middle of a line of verse, often brought about by punctuation (from the Latin for "cutting")
caesura
the equivalent of narration in a play
stage directions
the five primary stages of Freytag's Pyramid (aka the narrative arc)
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
ATLWCS: the name of the primary antagonist AND the name of the item he seeks
Reinhold von Rumpel, the Sea of Flames
a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
e.g. Animal Farm
allegory
the fancier names for the English and Italian sonnets
Elizabethan, Petrarchan
the term for a third-person narrator who can see into the thoughts of multiple characters
omniscient
the moment in the plot when a conflict is initiated
inciting incident
TIOBE: the names of Jack's ward and Algie's cousin
Cecily Cardew, Gwendolen Fairfax
the attitude of an author or narrator toward the subject matter and the atmosphere created in the reader by the work (order matters!)
tone, mood
the term for a meter consisting of five repetitions of a foot made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, AND the name for the use of this meter without rhyme
iambic pentameter, blank verse
a term used to describe a story told within a story
frame narrative
the mathematical-sounding term for a narrative that does not proceed chronologically but rather jumps around
nonlinear
TEWWG: the name of the tribe to which the Native Americans Janie encounters in the Everglades belong
Seminoles
paradox, juxtaposition, polysyndeton, antithesis
polysyndeton
the names for each of the following: a two-line, three-line, four-line, five-line, six-line, seven-line, and eight-line stanza
couplet, tercet, quatrain, quintain, sestet, septet, octave
the term used for a story that is told in the form of letters written back and forth between characters
epistolary
a Latin term used to describe a story that begins in the middle of the action (literally translates to "in the middle of things")
in medias res
the name of the only sister of any of the protagonists from the four major works we've read this year
Jutta Pfennig