Wednesday, February 27, 2013

108-138 end Final Late list

1.Rising Action: plot build up, climax.

2.Romanticism:  movement in western culture as a revolt against Classicism.

3.Satire: A literary work that criticizes something people take seriously with the intent of improving it.

4.Scansion: the analysis of verse 

6.Setting: the time and place in which events in a story occur.




7.Simile: comparison using like or as

8.Soliloquy: an extended speech delivered by a character alone.

9.Spiritual: folk song

10.Speaker:  narrator
11Stereotype: cliche' depiction of a minority or party group

12.Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts.

13.Structure: the planned framework of a literary work

14.Style: characteristic way of writing or speaking.

15.Subordination: Defiance

16.Surrealism: a style in literature that stresses the subconscious.


17.Suspension of Disbelief:  not believing in order to enjoy.

18.Symbol: something which stands for something else but also has a meaning of its own.


19.Synesthesia: use of one sense to help to experience another sense.

20.Synecdoche: name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

21.Syntax: the arrangement of words in a sentence.

22.Theme:  main idea of a story.

23.Thesis: proposition for consideration.

24.Tone: used to create the mood and atmosphere.    

25.Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker is serious.

26.Tragedy:any story with a somber theme carried to a disastrous end; protagonist usually is heroic but flawed.



27.Understatement: saying less than you mean for emphasis

28.Vernacular: everyday speech

29.Voice: convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

30.Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular generation.

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