Says Who?
Type of narration, usually third person, that displays knowledge of all characters and events.
What is an omniscient narrator?
This type of poem contains fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, and often follows one of several distinct rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet?
A generic term for the interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, literary criticism, and sociology
What is theory?
From the french for "kind" or "type," the classification of literary works on the basis of their content, form, or technique.
What is genre?
1. The affective response
2. Diagnostic questions
3. Striking Observations
4. Finding Problems
What are the four steps of close reading?
In a narrative told from this perspective, the author tells the story through a character who refers to him or herself as "I".
What is first person perspective?
An abrupt change in the tone of a sonnet typically used for dramatization.
What is a volta?
The process by which a person or category of people are portrayed as different from the dominant social group.
What is Othering?
This term refers to the categories according to which literary works are commonly classified.
What is form?
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman.
What is personification?
A narrator who, intentionally or unintentionally, fails to provide an accurate report of events or situations and whose credibility is therefore compromised.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The dominant pattern of stressed and unstressed syllabus found in a piece of poetry.
What is meter?
How one text’s meaning either depends on, or is shaped by other texts.
What is intertextuality?
A podcast might most closely be compared to this "conventional" form of literature.
What is drama?
The position taken by someone expostulating on a particular topic with the intent of proving that position plausible or correct.
What is a thesis?
The term used to describe the person who voices a poem.
What is the speaker?
Poetry written with ten syllables in a line, starting with a short syllable then a long syllable and then alternating until the line reaches ten syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
This critical concept argues that the person who wrote the text does not ultimately control its meaning.
What is "Death of the Author"?
A video game like Zork or a webcomic like Margot's Room requires the reader to interact with the text. This is an example of _________.
What is (reader) power?
This logical fallacy includes the answer in its premise.
What is a tautology?
A phrased coined by Wolfgang Iser in contradistinction to the "real" or "actual" reader; it described a reader intended, even created, by the text.
What is an implied reader?
A poetic device in which the speaker uses metaphors to physically describe his or her’s lover, usually from head to toe.
What is a blazon?
This type of theory refers to a field of intellectual inquiry that explores and interrogates the situation of colonized peoples both during and after colonialization.
What is Postcolonialism?
This genre is meant to create revulsion in its readers and at times focuses on the violation of physical taboos.
What is "horror"?
The tendency to express thoughts in terms of contrary pairs.
What is binary thinking?