Thursday, January 23, 2014

LIT TERM #3

exposition: exposition the beginning of the story, where the reader learns the setting and main characters' names
expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

fallacy:  from Latin word "to deceive", a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

falling action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

farce:  a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

figurative language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile).

flashback:  a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

foil: A character who is meant to represent characteristics, values, ideas, etc. which are directly and diametrically opposed to those of another character, usually the protagonist.

folk tale: story passed on by word of mouth.

foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planning" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.

free verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme

genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

Gothic tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

hyperbole: A description which exaggerates, usually employing extremes and/or superlatives to convey a positive or negative attribute.

imagery:  figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.

implication:  a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.

incongruity:  the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

inference: a judgment or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available

irony: Where an event occurs which is unexpected, in the sense that it is somehow in absurd or mocking opposition to what would be expected or appropriate

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