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Fiction about fiction making (i.e. a show about a show)
This is common in Lee's 'Native Speaker' |
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Simple juxtaposition of elements (phrases and clauses) as simple and compound sentences.
i.e. I like cold weather, I grew up in Arizona.
I like cold weather and I grew up in Arizona. |
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Elements are ordered in relationships of causality, temporality, and precedence.
i.e. I like sunny weather because I grew up in Arizona.
I like cold weather although I grew up in Arizona. |
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| A story in which the characters or objects take on consistent symbolic meanings. |
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Opening the bible and landing on a passage that directly relates to life in that moment.
i.e. Rowlandson w/ bible |
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| Bondage of the soul to the flesh and the temptations of original sin. |
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Conversion narrative: Life in sin > conversion experience > life after conversion
Captivity: capture > captivity > life after captivity |
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cross, transformation.
Ex: You have seen how a man was made a slave > You shall see how a slave was made a man. (Douglass) |
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writing that does not rhyme.
Prosaic: not remarkable, dull |
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| Unrhymed, 10 syllable lines |
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Four line stanzas that alternate between 8 and 6 sylable lines
Ex: Emily Dickenson |
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3 lines long, second line repeating all or most of the first line and the third rhyming.
Ex: Langston Hughes |
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| Poetry without a set form |
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| Poem where no narrator is present |
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repetition of similar vowels followed by different consanants.
EX: Seemed, weak, green, sweetest, etc. |
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repetition of initial sounds, usually consonants.
Ex: Dickenson: The soul selects her own Society |
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Iambic pentameter
Hymn stanza
Slant rhyme. |
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Spondee: two stresses in a row; don't don't don't don't
Iamn: one TWO
pentameter: verse with 5 accents per line
blank verse
free verse: unrhymed verse with no regard to the number of accents or syllable per line
sonnet |
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free verse
adaptation of jazz and bop to written forms
Bebop: type of jazz characterized with fast tempos, complex harmonies.
Montage: the creation of meaning, significance, and emotional impact by juxtaposing individual shots, product of editing. |
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free verse
poetic catalog
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partial or imperfect rhyme
Ex: Dickinson- Baptized, before, without a choice
But this time, consciously, of Grace |
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| Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time |
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Parataxis: conjunction joining; and or nothing
Iceberg principle: what goes on underneath the surface has more importance than what is on the surface.
Hypertaxis: subordinating one subject to another
Motifs: repeated details |
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| William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying |
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Omniscient: All knowing
Monologue: sustained speech by a single person |
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genre of fiction set in the Southern US involving plots of ciolence or trauma along with eccentric characters and an atmosphere of depression.
The Displaced Person |
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style characterized by distortion, exaggeration, incongruity
The Displaced Person |
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the undeserved, unmerited infusion of God's love
The Displaced Person |
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Parable: Literary genre that most informs O'connor's work
Brief simple language, familiar subject.
Functions as a story.
Interlock: values flip-flop and if the reader doesn't buy into this the ending will not make sense |
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Auto-ethnography: Study/writing of your own people.
Postmodernist: wuestion of self identity. Combine low and high art.
Metafiction: Fiction about fiction making |
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