Terminology Term Paper
Terminology
1.Paradox: statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless.
Ex. whoever loses his life shall find it.
2. Soliloquy/ Aside: A dramatic device used by actors/actress that reveals specific information about themselves and their inner thoughts that are not revealed to the other characters, only the audience.
3. Euphemism: Substituting a more favorable word for another, which may be a socially delicate term
Ex. He’s dead. (Socially indelicate) He passed on. (More favorable)
4. Archetype: A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., which is universally understood.
A raven= an omen of death
An owl=often means wisdom
Spring=new life
5. Motif: A recurring subject, theme, …show more content…
idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
6. Comic Relief: The inclusion of humor as a means to relieve the tension of a particularly dramatic moment.
7. Nemesis: An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome. One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
8. Tragic Hero: * Has the personal qualities of a hero * Has high social position * Suffers a tragic fall -from a high to a low position
-involves suffering
9. Hamartia: * The flaw of a character which leads to his/her fall even if it is unintentional * A person is led to do something because of his/her flaw
10.Catharsis:
* The process of purification * The audience is purged through the emotions of pity and fear- pity for the hero and fear of the result
11. Antithesis: Direct opposite or contrast
12. Closing By Return: A motif that is clearly at the beginning of a play, story, essay, etc., and revisited at the end.
13. Onomatopoeia: A word whose sound imitates that which it means
14. Analogy: Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar
15. Symbolism/Symbol: An object takes on the meaning of something intangible. All colors are symbols. Symbols are also connected to context, meaning what is going on around the situation.
16. Epiphany: A sudden realization or insight about a situation or an individual
17. Acronym: A word that has been formed through the use of the first letter or syllable of another existing word (TV-television)
18.Short Story: A short fictional prose narrative having only one major character plots setting theme.
19.Mood/Atmosphere: The prevailing feeling in a literary work
20.Conflict: A struggle between opposing characters, forces, emotions
21.Suspense: The condition of being uncertain about an outcome, used to create tension, excitement or anxiety
22. Irony: A literary device that creates a contrast or discrepancy矛盾between what is said and what is meant or between expectations and reality. * Verbal Irony: occurs when the real or intended meaning of a word or phrase or sentence is different than what the speaker intend * Dramatic Irony: the reader or viewer shares knowledge with the writer that a character doesn’t have
23. Tone: The attitude a writer expresses toward his or her subject
24. Foreshadowing: Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot
25.Flashback: A device that shifts the narrative from the present to the past, usually to reveal a change in character or illustrate an important point
26.Imagery: A picture created by writers using concrete details, adjective and figures of speech
27.Point of View: The perspective from which a story is told
28.Symbol: Object that represent something greater that itself
29. Allusion: Reference to famous person, place, thing or event
30. Antagonist: Bad guys
31.Protagonist: Main character
32.Pathetic Fallacy: A literary device in which nature or inanimate things are described in a wrong way that is sympathetic or prophetic about events or emotions of the character
33. Metaphor/Simile: A comparison made by referring to one thing as another Ex. No man is an island- John Donne Many metaphors are used so often that they have become cliché. We use them in speech, but never use them in writing.
34.Cliché: A trite expression whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse.
35. Narration: * First person narration: Authors use this form to focus on how one person views the events of the story, the world around them and others. Look for the key pronounce- I and We * Third person narration: This style does not let the reader into the mind of feelings of any one character. Look for the key pronounce for this narrative – hi, she, they * Omniscient narration: Means that the author is all knowing-the narrator can tell the feelings an ideas of multiple characters.
36.Stream of Consciousness: A style of writing that seeks to mime the individuals thought process. Resembles and internal monologue.
37. Rhetorical Question: A question that is not intended to have a direct answer. The answer is assumed or implied
38.Ideograms: Symbols that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word
39.Noun: A noun is a part of speech, which is a person, place or thing. A noun can be a proper or common noun. Proper: any specific person, place or thing: Alexander, Toronto… Common: any person, place or thing: boy, city….
40.Possessive and Plural Nouns: Possessive means you own something. This is shown through the use of an apostrophe.
41.Pronoun: A pronoun refers to a noun or takes the place of that noun. You have to use the correct pronoun so that your reader clearly understands which noun your pronoun is referring to.
42. Adjective: Words that add extra meaning to a noun
43.Alliteration: A series of word that begin with the same letters (Adam ate an apple)
44.Couplets: A pair of lines of meter in poetry
45.Conjuction: Hooks up phrases clause, and sentences (and, but, or, because, however)
46.Preposition: Show location or/and direction (in, by, through…)
47.Personification: Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects (The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell)
48.Consonance: The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place (but whose vowels differ). Also, a kind of inverted alliteration, in which final consonants, rather than initial or middle ones, repeat in nearby words.
Ex. Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping there To watch his woods fill up with snow
49. Assonance: Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words. (Like alliteration, it is the sound rather than the letter used that is important)
50.Cacophony: A series of harsh sounding words in a row
51.Euphony: Agreeable sound, pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words
52.Verse:
Iambic: regular speech Blank Verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. Trochaic: emphasis is put on the first syllable and the weak is the second (double double)
53.Prose: Prose is the most typical form of language, applying ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure (as in traditional poetry).
54.Rhyme: Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
55.Rhyme Scheme: organization of the rhyme words
56.Comedy: Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
57.Rhythm: the pattern of stresses in a line of verse. 58.Stanza: One of the divisions of a poem composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
59.Synonyms: A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language
60.Contrast: set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences
61.Lists: An arena or field for chivalric combat and tournaments with bleachers or balconies set to one side where nobility might sit to observe.
62.Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
63.Pathos: a writer or speaker's attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience--usually a deep feeling of suffering, but sometimes joy, pride, anger, humor, patriotism, or any of a dozen other emotions.
64.Pun: A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning.
65.Repetition:
66.Tragedy: A serious play in which the chief character, by some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe.
67.Plot: a series of events and the thoughtful interrelations of these things (the main story in a narrative or drama)
68.Plot Structure: * Exposition * Exciting Force * Rising Action * Climax * Falling Action * Catastrophe
69.Subplot:
70.Setting: The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs;
71.Theme: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work.
72.Idiom：often used as a synonym for dialect or idiolect.
1.Paradox: statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless.
Ex. whoever loses his life shall find it.
2. Soliloquy/ Aside: A dramatic device used by actors/actress that reveals specific information about themselves and their inner thoughts that are not revealed to the other characters, only the audience.
3. Euphemism: Substituting a more favorable word for another, which may be a socially delicate term
Ex. He’s dead. (Socially indelicate) He passed on. (More favorable)
4. Archetype: A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., which is universally understood.
A raven= an omen of death
An owl=often means wisdom
Spring=new life
5. Motif: A recurring subject, theme, …show more content…
idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
6. Comic Relief: The inclusion of humor as a means to relieve the tension of a particularly dramatic moment.
7. Nemesis: An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome. One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.
8. Tragic Hero: * Has the personal qualities of a hero * Has high social position * Suffers a tragic fall -from a high to a low position
-involves suffering
9. Hamartia: * The flaw of a character which leads to his/her fall even if it is unintentional * A person is led to do something because of his/her flaw
10.Catharsis:
* The process of purification * The audience is purged through the emotions of pity and fear- pity for the hero and fear of the result
11. Antithesis: Direct opposite or contrast
12. Closing By Return: A motif that is clearly at the beginning of a play, story, essay, etc., and revisited at the end.
13. Onomatopoeia: A word whose sound imitates that which it means
14. Analogy: Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar
15. Symbolism/Symbol: An object takes on the meaning of something intangible. All colors are symbols. Symbols are also connected to context, meaning what is going on around the situation.
16. Epiphany: A sudden realization or insight about a situation or an individual
17. Acronym: A word that has been formed through the use of the first letter or syllable of another existing word (TV-television)
18.Short Story: A short fictional prose narrative having only one major character plots setting theme.
19.Mood/Atmosphere: The prevailing feeling in a literary work
20.Conflict: A struggle between opposing characters, forces, emotions
21.Suspense: The condition of being uncertain about an outcome, used to create tension, excitement or anxiety
22. Irony: A literary device that creates a contrast or discrepancy矛盾between what is said and what is meant or between expectations and reality. * Verbal Irony: occurs when the real or intended meaning of a word or phrase or sentence is different than what the speaker intend * Dramatic Irony: the reader or viewer shares knowledge with the writer that a character doesn’t have
23. Tone: The attitude a writer expresses toward his or her subject
24. Foreshadowing: Clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot
25.Flashback: A device that shifts the narrative from the present to the past, usually to reveal a change in character or illustrate an important point
26.Imagery: A picture created by writers using concrete details, adjective and figures of speech
27.Point of View: The perspective from which a story is told
28.Symbol: Object that represent something greater that itself
29. Allusion: Reference to famous person, place, thing or event
30. Antagonist: Bad guys
31.Protagonist: Main character
32.Pathetic Fallacy: A literary device in which nature or inanimate things are described in a wrong way that is sympathetic or prophetic about events or emotions of the character
33. Metaphor/Simile: A comparison made by referring to one thing as another Ex. No man is an island- John Donne Many metaphors are used so often that they have become cliché. We use them in speech, but never use them in writing.
34.Cliché: A trite expression whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse.
35. Narration: * First person narration: Authors use this form to focus on how one person views the events of the story, the world around them and others. Look for the key pronounce- I and We * Third person narration: This style does not let the reader into the mind of feelings of any one character. Look for the key pronounce for this narrative – hi, she, they * Omniscient narration: Means that the author is all knowing-the narrator can tell the feelings an ideas of multiple characters.
36.Stream of Consciousness: A style of writing that seeks to mime the individuals thought process. Resembles and internal monologue.
37. Rhetorical Question: A question that is not intended to have a direct answer. The answer is assumed or implied
38.Ideograms: Symbols that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word
39.Noun: A noun is a part of speech, which is a person, place or thing. A noun can be a proper or common noun. Proper: any specific person, place or thing: Alexander, Toronto… Common: any person, place or thing: boy, city….
40.Possessive and Plural Nouns: Possessive means you own something. This is shown through the use of an apostrophe.
41.Pronoun: A pronoun refers to a noun or takes the place of that noun. You have to use the correct pronoun so that your reader clearly understands which noun your pronoun is referring to.
42. Adjective: Words that add extra meaning to a noun
43.Alliteration: A series of word that begin with the same letters (Adam ate an apple)
44.Couplets: A pair of lines of meter in poetry
45.Conjuction: Hooks up phrases clause, and sentences (and, but, or, because, however)
46.Preposition: Show location or/and direction (in, by, through…)
47.Personification: Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects (The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell)
48.Consonance: The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place (but whose vowels differ). Also, a kind of inverted alliteration, in which final consonants, rather than initial or middle ones, repeat in nearby words.
Ex. Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping there To watch his woods fill up with snow
49. Assonance: Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words. (Like alliteration, it is the sound rather than the letter used that is important)
50.Cacophony: A series of harsh sounding words in a row
51.Euphony: Agreeable sound, pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words
52.Verse:
Iambic: regular speech Blank Verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. Trochaic: emphasis is put on the first syllable and the weak is the second (double double)
53.Prose: Prose is the most typical form of language, applying ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure (as in traditional poetry).
54.Rhyme: Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
55.Rhyme Scheme: organization of the rhyme words
56.Comedy: Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
57.Rhythm: the pattern of stresses in a line of verse. 58.Stanza: One of the divisions of a poem composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
59.Synonyms: A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language
60.Contrast: set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences
61.Lists: An arena or field for chivalric combat and tournaments with bleachers or balconies set to one side where nobility might sit to observe.
62.Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
63.Pathos: a writer or speaker's attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience--usually a deep feeling of suffering, but sometimes joy, pride, anger, humor, patriotism, or any of a dozen other emotions.
64.Pun: A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning.
65.Repetition:
66.Tragedy: A serious play in which the chief character, by some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe.
67.Plot: a series of events and the thoughtful interrelations of these things (the main story in a narrative or drama)
68.Plot Structure: * Exposition * Exciting Force * Rising Action * Climax * Falling Action * Catastrophe
69.Subplot:
70.Setting: The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs;
71.Theme: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work.
72.Idiom：often used as a synonym for dialect or idiolect.