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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Flashcards
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
