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Event/ siguation that may be interpreted in more than one way.
Artificial language, and manner of expression may be ambiguous.
Example: I'll give you a ring tomorrow (could mean calling them on the phone, or giving them jewlery) |
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- Narrative/ description that has a second meaning behind the surface.
- Things in a story represent symbols/ qualities or concepts
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- Describes fiction/ non fiction that teaches a moral or specific lesson
- Provides a model for correct behavior.
did-act, like you should act--> morals. |
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- Formal sustained peom lamenting the death of a particular person.
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- type of comedy that's one dimensional
- characters are put into crazy situations
- normal standards of motivation and probability are violated to evoke laughter
Reminds me of "Fart" which is funny. |
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- Classifies a literary type:
- Tragety, comedy, novel, essay, poetry...
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tragety
The Stranger is a novel |
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- A short story in which a lesson may be learned
Examples can be found in the New Testament in the Bible |
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- exaggerated imitaion of a usually more serious work
- uses the authors style/ characteristics
- used to make things funny
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- Work that portrays a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior
- shows it in an extreme way
- targets large groups and inspires change
When Raymond beats the girl for cheating on him, it shows that it's wrong to cheat. |
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- Dramatic --> deals with a serious theme
- A Great person destined, through a flaw/ conflict(over powering force: fate/ society), to downfall/ destruction.
Ex: Romeo and Juliet |
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- using a word whose pronounciation suggests its meaning
Ex: buzz, hiss, slam, pop |
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- Repetition at close intervals of identical consonat, or vowel sounds
"scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane) or Peter piper picked a patch of pickeled peppers
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- Repetition of a consonant sound with in 2+ words in close proximity
- usually at the end of a word
Ex: Blank, think; Strong, string; Wonder, Wander |
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- Humorous speeches and incidents during a serious action of tragety
- enriches tragic significance
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- When a character speaks his/her thoughs aloud
- (usually when he/she is alone)
- There are many in Shakespeare's works
If I were in a play, on stage by myself, describing out loud my feelings for another character.
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- Used are used out of the usual sense to make the meaning more specific
- Simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole
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- Seems contradictory, but it's true
- used to emphasize or attract attention
- related to oxymoron
Ex: Bittersweet, less is more, |
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- Verbal iron--> sounds like praise but is bitter and gives disapproval
- ment to be mean and hurtful
When someone's late you could say "Oh you're right on time" |
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- Drama/ dialogue--> actor directly addresses the audience but it's not suppose to he heard by people on stage
Ex: Romeo and Juliet: Romeo says: "Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?" |
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- When a sentence has 2 close grammatical constructions
Ex: "The more we do, the more we can do." or "He was handsome, dapper and ready for his date. |
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- Repetiton of a vowel sound with in 2+ words that are close
Ex: Fake/lake; fake/fate; |
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- grammar--> the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship.
- It's like diction, but the way the words are arranged.
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- Tragic error in judgement that changes the fortune of the tragic hero from happiness to misery
- (Also known as hamartia)
When Mersault kills the Arab man in "The Stranger"(by Albert Camus) |
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