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| A Structural Arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger nits of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is equally developed and similarly phrased. The principle of parallel construction simply dictates that coordinate ideas should have coordinate presentation (ex. "...without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favor." -Samuel Johnson) |
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| A composition imitation with ludicrous exactness, but ordinarily on a ridiculous subject, the style and mennerisms of some seious composition. To enjoy parody, one must be familiar with the original. |
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| a type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life. |
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| An uncomplimentary term devised by John Ruskin, the Victorian critic and writer, to describe what he felt was an artificial use of personification, or of imputing to inanimate objects feelings that they do not possess. (ex. The cruel, hungry sea) |
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| A sentence in which the meaning is withheld until the end of the sentence; a sentence in which the main clause appears last. (ex. "From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded... they ran out... urging one another... to madness..." -Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) |
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| The ______ is the mask which covers the direct voice of the author. ________ may be the narrator of the story or may be a voice in a story which is not "directly" the authors voice but which is created by the author in order to allow the author to speak indirectly through this masking ________. |
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| The endowment of animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form, character, or sensibilties. (ex. The oak tree lifted its arms to the sky) |
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| The idealistic philosophical teachings of Plato and his followers. Three reasons that Platonism is important for literature are: 1) the doctrine of ideas understands true reality not through the senses and material objects but through ideas and universals which form an ideal realm; 2) the soul is preexistent and immortal with some power to recollect or recall ideas and images from "heavenly" stays of former bodily imprisonments. These recollections become human knoledge. 3) The doctrine of love has lower and higher forms or expressions. The sould or lover of beauty leaves the sensual as a lower form to ascend to the higher idealization of love, beauty, and virture. |
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| the perspective from which the story is told. 1) First Person--related exclusively from the position of a single character who uses it throughout. 2) second person-- rare 3) third person--point of view is restricted to that of a single character referred to always by name or by a pronoun in the third person 4) omniscent--the all-seeing eye--third person but does not ususally limit the point of view to just one person. If the author discloses the thoughts and emotions of his charactes, he is using subjective characterization. If he simply reveals their words and actions, he using objecitve characterization. 5) stream of consciousness--the jumbled, frequently inoherent, half-formed ideas, images, memories, thoughts, etc., that stream thorgh a person's consciousness |
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| the chief character in a piece of literature |
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