English Litarary Terms and Concepts
Mr. Ts Literary Terms & Concepts
Mr. Ts Literary Terms & Concepts
Dramatic structure (three-part plotline) -> exposition: introduced, change or challenge; complication: change, respond; resolution (denoument): order or equilibrium
Dramatic structure (Freytag) -> Gustav Freytag's pyramid, dramatic are; Exposition, Conflict introduced, rising action, climax, falling action resolution
Setting -> time and place of the action
Plot and subplot -> plot, storyline, subplot, secondary, main
Mood -> feeling created in the reader
Suspense -> excitement, awaiting a climax, unceartanty, questions
External & internal conflict -> external conflict, character struggles against some outside force, internal conflict, within the mind
Acts and scenes -> -
Juxtapositions -> purposes of contrast, near each other
Acting time vs. Narration time -> acting time, action of a narrative, narrating time, tell or read the story, external, internal
Expansion and compression -> expansion = narration time is longer, compression = narration time is shorter
Twist (usually short story) -> unexpected conclusion, reevaluate
Connotation -> associations, negativ or positive, patterns
Register/tone -> choice of language, trigger an emotional response
Style -> distinctive way, auther uses language
Narrative voice/ colloquialisms -> personality, personal details, colloquialisms, regions, particular social classes
Flashback -> earlier episode, insearted, analepsis
Allusion -> reference to
Alliteration -> repetition of sounds, construct, beginning
Oxymoron -> figure of speach, contradictory word
Type of text, the three great genres ore prose, poetry and drama
not a rythmic pattern, unadorned (=ungeschönt), novels, esseys, short stories, works of critisism
overall shape, sequence of ideas, paterns repeatedly used, prefiguring, foreshadows
clues, create suspense
visual, auditory, tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste) - comparisons, simile, metaphor
figures of speech
something inanimate is given human qualities
symbol (object, person or event), stands for something more, to be symbolic of
denotation: dictionari meaning, connotation: association
Concrete: physically exist, abstract: do not exist physically
irony: contrast between expectation and reality, verbal irony: meaning different, situational irony: contradiction between what we expect to happen and what does happen, dramatic irony: reader knows something the characters don't.
conveys audience, viewpoint character, author, reader, real world, create, interpret, the audience
panoramic, omniscient, protagonist referring to himself, third person limited narrator
intrusive: comment, explicit moral judgements, unintrusive: describe, a view may well be implicit, invisible, neutral omniscience
extradiegetic: outside the world of the story, intradiegetic: is in the world of the story, idiolects, formal
feelings, opinions, and perceptions of a particular character in a story, in hinsight, retrospectively, inside the world of a character
device, perspectives on the same event, more information
main narrative is contained within another narrative
language, personality, age of tegional background, informal vocabulary, slang and non-standard grammar, idiolect
judgement is flawed, narrator's views and hidden agendas
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Cartes-fiches
Type of text, the three great genres ore prose, poetry and drama
not a rythmic pattern, unadorned (=ungeschönt), novels, esseys, short stories, works of critisism
overall shape, sequence of ideas, paterns repeatedly used, prefiguring, foreshadows
clues, create suspense
visual, auditory, tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste) - comparisons, simile, metaphor
figures of speech
something inanimate is given human qualities
symbol (object, person or event), stands for something more, to be symbolic of
denotation: dictionari meaning, connotation: association
Concrete: physically exist, abstract: do not exist physically
irony: contrast between expectation and reality, verbal irony: meaning different, situational irony: contradiction between what we expect to happen and what does happen, dramatic irony: reader knows something the characters don't.
conveys audience, viewpoint character, author, reader, real world, create, interpret, the audience
panoramic, omniscient, protagonist referring to himself, third person limited narrator
intrusive: comment, explicit moral judgements, unintrusive: describe, a view may well be implicit, invisible, neutral omniscience
extradiegetic: outside the world of the story, intradiegetic: is in the world of the story, idiolects, formal
feelings, opinions, and perceptions of a particular character in a story, in hinsight, retrospectively, inside the world of a character
device, perspectives on the same event, more information
main narrative is contained within another narrative
language, personality, age of tegional background, informal vocabulary, slang and non-standard grammar, idiolect
judgement is flawed, narrator's views and hidden agendas
first person, mind dectates
the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, leaps in syntax
indirect
fictional/ dramatic construct, round, flat
sequence of events, characters and a central conflict, exposition, conflict, climax, falling action, resolution
central message concern or purpose, generalization or general statement, started directly, indirectly
more distinct, interaction
protagonist, central or main character, undergo some change, death is not a change, protagpnist's main opponent or adversary, villian does not change, does not have to be a person
hero, does not have to be heroic and noble, cunning and melevelent, anti-hero, not necessarily evin or villainous, traditional heroic qualities
author develops, does or says, others say, word choice in descriptive passages
direct/implicit, directly states, indirect/implicit, his/her actions, thoughts, feelings, words, apperance, character's observation or reactions
only used in plays, information about the scene, setting or character, know how to act
indivdual's particular use of language, origins or upbringing
interaction, relationships, actions, behave in certin situations
static, dynamic, death is not a change
external conflict, character struggles against some outside force, internal conflict, within the minde
Tradgedy -> ideas first provided by greek philosopher aristotle, approximately 335 BC.
Some elements of Tragedies -> central character, tragic hero; tragic flaw (hamartia), downfall; pride or overreaching (hubris); reversal of the fortune (peripeteia) ; purging of the emotions (catharsis), peace
Comedy -> confusion and missunderstanding, have a happy ending, underlying seriousness, comendy of manners, tragicomedy
Dramatic structure (three-part plotline) -> exposition: introduced, change or challenge; complication: change, respond; resolution (denoument): order or equilibrium
