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Perspective on Lit Transy
Midterm for Smith
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
02/22/2011

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Explication 
Definition

analysis or interpretation, esp of a literary 

passage or work or philosophical doctrine

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Genre
Definition

Category of works of art, characterized

for it's form, style purpose

ex. fiction, poetry, drama

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Generic Mode
Definition
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Satire
Definition
In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up toridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.
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Diction
Definition

Word Choice

formal or informal

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Lexial Sets
Definition
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Fiction 
Definition
Stories about imaginary ideas or people 
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Short Story 
Definition
can be read in a single setting, 1,000 to 20,000 words
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Novel 
Definition
a work of proposed fiction 40,000 words
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Persona 
Definition
narrator or storyteller in the reading
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First Person Narrator
Definition

 

I" or "we" serves as the narrator of a piece of fiction.

 

 

it also limits the reader to that one perspective

 

 



 

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Third Person Narrator
Definition

relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as "he" or "she."

Third person point of view may be omniscient or limited.

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Exposition
Definition
introduces characters the situtation they are are in time and place of the setting and reveals conflict 
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rising action
Definition
the inital incident 
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climax
Definition
the turning point, the point at the most intensity
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falling action
Definition
release of the tension moves toward to resolution
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conclusion
Definition
Situation is stablized
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foil
Definition
 A foil is a character who serves as a contrast to
another perhaps more primary character,
so as to point out specific traits of the primary character.
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meter
Definition
the stressed/unstresssed syllable rhythm
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scansion
Definition
making stressed and unstressed in a poem
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alliteration
Definition

repetition of a particular sound in the first

syllables of a series of words and/or phrases

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assosance
Definition

refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming 

within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration 

and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse

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onomatopoeia
Definition

 word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

BAM OINK RAWR

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metafiction
Definition

fiction about fiction 

a story within a story to help explain the story we are reading 

 

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Jonathan Swift
Definition
Modern Proposal 
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william faulkner
Definition
a rose for emily
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charlotte Perkins Gilman
Definition
the yellow wall paper
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hills like white elephants
Definition
ernest hemingway 
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Margaret Atwood
Definition
Happy endings
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Tim O'Brien
Definition
How to Tell a War Story 
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
Definition
Wilfred Owen
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Helen Chasin
Definition
the Word Plum
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Mona van Duyn
Definition
what the motorcycle said
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Alexander Pope
Definition
an essay on critism 
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my mistress eyes nothing like the sun
Definition
william shakespeare
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