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Literary Terms
Includes 10 literary terms in a set of 3.
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Literature
Post-Graduate
10/21/2009

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Intertextuality (definition)
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Shaping of texts or meanings by other texts. May refer to an author's borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader's referencing of one text in reading another. Any relationship between 2 texts such that the meaning of one text is enriched by or dependent on its relationship to the other text.
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Intertextuality (example)
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Hair and beauty hidden in Scarlet Letter and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Motif (definition)
Definition
Recurrent device formula or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event.
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Motif (example)
Definition
Scaffold, heart, light & dark, or plants & herbs in the Scarlett Letter.
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Narrative (definition)
Definition
The act of telling a story.
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Narrative (example)
Definition
38 Who Saw Murder by Gansberg
or Only Daughter.
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Onomatopoeia (definition)
Definition
Word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes.
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Onomatopoeia (example)
Definition
Buzz, click, rattle, grunt.
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Parody
Definition
Satirical imitation of a work for the purpose of ridiculing its style or subject.
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Parody (example)
Definition
Scream movies or a caricature.
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Point of view (definition)
Definition
The way a story gets told and who tells it. Determines the position or angle of vision from which the story unfolds.
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Point of view (example)
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chicken crossing the road from different perspectives.
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Rhetorical Device (definition)
Definition
Word patterns/style used to clarify, make associations, and focus the writing.
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Rhetorical Device (example)
Definition
Analogy, parallelism, tone. Or repetition, apostrophe, antithesis or climax.
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Sarcasm (definition)
Definition
Sharp remark, a form of irony that is bitterly critical.
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Sarcasm (example)
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Sure I would definitely love to work at 4 o'clock in the morning.
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Syntax (definition)
Definition
Sentence structure. Sentences long, short, simple, or compound. Word order, not choice of words or meaning of words.
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Syntax (example)
Definition
Phrases, clauses, sentences.
The dog ran. <-simple
The dog ran, but the cat purred. <-complex.
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Voice (definition)
Definition
Acknowledged or unacknowledged source of words of a story; The speaker telling the story.
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Voice (example)
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Different from point of view in that it is how the narrator sounds, not the perspective of the person telling the story. They may sound excited or depressed or sarcastic.
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