Literary Terms
This literary device is when we give a non-human thing or object human qualities.
What is personification?
In poetry, we don't have a narrator. Instead we have this.
What is a speaker? Or what is a poetic speaker?
In this story, the son resents his mother. (Title and author)
What is "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu?
Young Katniss is this specific sort of protagonist, according to several of the critics that we quoted in class.
What is a YA Dystopian Protagonist?
This genre uses panels, gutters, and composition.
What is graphic novels?
How a character is described, how they speak, what they say, how others react to them.
What is characterization?
This is when someone tells the story from their point of view. They use "I."
What is a first-person narrator?
In this story, two people have a rapid-fire discussion. This style of terse writing is typical of its writer's Modernist style. (title and author)
What is "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" shows this problematic diagnosis that many women in the 19th and early 20th century were given. Don't get too excited.
What is hysteria?
This is sorter than a novel but longer than a short story.
What is a novella?
A comparison between two things/ ideas/ concepts that is complex and can be extended. We often notice both similarities and differences between the things being compared.
What is a metaphor?
Second-person narration uses "you," which implicates the reader, but also leads us to figuring out who the "you" is in the story. In this short story, the second-person narrator is both others and himself in the past.
What is "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium"?
What is "Theft in a Pastry Shop" by Italo Calvino?
This is a literary term that suggests that someone "wears a mask" and plays a role when they are the speaker of a poem.
What is persona?
This early 20th century genre focuses on the alienation of individual and was marked by having a lot of meaning under few words.
What is Modernism?
This is about place, but it is also about time period and context. It has an impact on many aspects of the text.
What is setting?
Laura isn't the narrator of the short story "The Garden Party," but the story is (mostly) told from her perspective. We refer to this sort of narration by this name.
What is third-person limited narration?
A poem that has this line "what peaches and what penumbras!" (title and author)
What is "Supermarket in California" by Allen Ginsburg.
This is a debunked early Positivist Criminology idea that the shape of a face or skull could help tell if a person was born to be a criminal.
What is physiognomy?
This genre uses the creepy mood of an early genre, but it updates it and places it in cities.
What is the Urban Gothic?
This is when we use a part to stand in for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
A term for when someone writes a letter in a story that allows the story to can go from one type of narration and/or narrator to a first-person account. When we examine the letter, we need to consider who is writing to whom.
What is epistolary?
This story included a rock concert and a love story. (title and author)
What is "Be Cool for Once" by Aminah Mae Safi?
What is a scapegoat?
This genre isn't fantasy per se, but it involves fantastic elements like we saw in "The Paper Menagerie."
What is Magic Realism?