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satire
political, mocking of a problem using wit and humor
- example: tina fey and sarah palin.
- SNL or Colbert
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allegory
a story long metaphor
- example: prodigal son.
- father accepting lost son.
- God accepting lost child.
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Fable
using animals as characters that teaches a moral lesson
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three types of Irony?
Dramatic, Situational and Verbal
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Dramatic Irony?
the audience knows, characters do not.
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Situational Irony
unexpected twist or outcome
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Verbal Irony
say something, but mean something else. (sarcasm)
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Novella
how many pages?
identified with?
- short novel
- 150 pages
- underlined.
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Short Story
how long?
identified with?
- compact piece of fiction, tells a narrative, has all the parts of a novel/novella.
- takes 20 min to read
- "quotation marks"
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Symbol
a concrete (thing) that represents an abstract (idea).
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Protagonist
main character
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antagonist
second character that causes the problems and creates external conflicts.
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Dramatis Personea
characters in play
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chorus
a group or performance
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ode
a song performed by the chorus in between scenes.
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Monologue
long speech to other characters
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Soliloquy
long speech alone on stage
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comedy?
tragedy?
- sad to happy.
- happy to sad.
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anagnorisis
- A-HA! moment.
- you realize you screwed up.
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Catharsis
emotional cleansing
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Allusion
reference to history/literature and mythology
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tone
attitude of the author towards the subject of the piece.
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dynamic
changes/grows (either by being a better person, or worse)
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characterization
how the author creates multi-dimensional characters.
- -what they say
- -what they do
- -what others say about that character
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motif
- repeated image or pattern.
- example: color green on harry potter is a motif of power.
- cannot be a single thing because it would be a symbol.
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Point of view?
what are the 4 points of view?
- the way the story is told.
- -first person: "I"
- -second person: "you"
- -third person limited: He/She/It
- -third person omniscient: He/She/It
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polysyndeton
multiple coordination conjunction. repetition of conjunction
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asyndeton
lack of conjunction
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foil
2 characters that contrast
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Deus Ex Machina
God solving all the character's problems
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alliteration
- repetition of the first consonant sound
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Anaphora
repetition of starting word.
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epihora
repetition of ending word.
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french word that describes the end of a story
denoument
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bildungsroman
growing up, coming of age.
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Realist
viewed as it is/ as they are.
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Romantic
focus on emotions, individual nature, seeing things as they should be.
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Latin quote by horace? and what does it mean?
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."
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