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A Latin term meaning "seize the day." |
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Release of ideas, thoughts, and repressed materials from the unconscious, accompanied by an affective emotional response and relief. |
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A sudden moment of understanding that causes a character to change or to act in a certain way. |
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A foil character is either one who is opposite to the main character or nearly the same as the main character. |
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The art of close reading in order to interpret a text. We often do this for poetry, but for fiction it works as well to tease out the effect of certain words or phrases, uses of repetition, references to earlier events in the text or hints about what is to come. |
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| Italian for "light-dark." The gradations of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially illusion |
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An unpleasant combination of sounds |
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A pleasant combination of sounds. |
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A word that reads the same whether written forwards or backwards. |
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