Summary week 23

Summary of Literary terms:


This week (week 23) we analysed the Narrative techniques so we are able to give depth 

to our analysis and make it worth reading. These are some Rhetorical Devices that will help us in the comprehension of Narrative Techniques.

-Allegory:  is a device in which characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.

-Alliteration: is the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts of a series of words or phrases.

-Allusion: is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication.

-Climax: is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.

-Connotation: is a commonly understood subjective cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word's or phrase's explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.

-Denotation:  is often associated with symbolism, as the denotation of a particular media text often represents something further; a hidden meaning ) is often encoded into a media text.

-Flashback: is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached.

-Foreshadowing: is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story.

-Gothic: use of primitive, medieval, or mysterious elements in literature. Gothic writing often features dark and gloomy places and horrifying, supernatural events

Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” is a gothic story featuring a large, dark, gothic mansion.

-Hero: a character whose actions are inspiring or noble. Tragic heroes are noble and inspiring but have a fault or make a mistake which leads to their downfall.

Some critics claim that Dimmesdale in TSL is a tragic hero who falls is society due to poor decisions.

- Hyperbole: boldy exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true.

- Lyric poem: a melodic poem which describe an object or emotion.

“Heart, we will forget him” describes a woman trying to recover from heartbreak

- Metaphor: a lterary device in which a direct comparison is made between two things essentially unlike

-. Narrative poem: a narrative poem tells a story in verse.

- Onomatopoeia: use of words that imitate sounds.

- Personification: a literary device in which human attributes are given to a non-human such as an animal, object, or concept

- Plot: sequence of events in a story, usually involves characters and a conflict.

- Point of view: the perspective or vantage point from which a story or poem is told. Three common points of view include: first-person, omniscient, and third person limited.

- Setting: the time and place of the story or poem’s action, it helps to create the mood of the story

- Simile: a literary device in which a direct comparison is made between two things essentially unlike using the words “like” or “as.”

- Soliloquy: A long speech made by a character who is onstage alone and who reveals his/her private thoughts and feelings to the audience.

Romeo, as he is about to kill himself in ROMEO AND JULIET speaks to the audience.

-. Stanza: a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit. They function like paragraphs do in prose writing.

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy

- Symbol: something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to its literal meaning suggests other meanings as well.

The Liberty Bell is not only a bell but a symbol of freedom in the United States. Hester’s scarlet letter symbolized her sin of adultery.

-. Theme: an insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work

One of the themes if PUDD’NHEAD WILSON is that everyone suffers in some way in a society that condones slavery.

- Thesis: the organizing thought of an entire essay or piece of writing and which contains a subject and an opinion

“Of the three scaffold scenes in TSL, the third one best encapsulates the theme that self-punishment is the harshest outcome of sin.”

- Tone: the writer’s attitude toward the story, poem, characters, or audience. A writer’s tone may be formal or informal, friendly or anxious, personal, or arrogant, for example

“Hooray! I’m going to get married today!” (ecstatic tone)

- Understatement/litote: literary device that says less than intended. Oppositive of hyperbole. Usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes may be used for comic purposes
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We also have the tone and the mood.
TONE:  a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive,
MOOD: is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words. It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words. It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation.