BELOW YOU WILL FIND A LIST OF TERMS COVERED IN THIS CLASS. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR UNDERSTANDING ALL UNBRACKETED TERMS FOR THE MIDTERM AND FOR THE ENTIRE LIST BY THE END OF THE TERM.
ADDITIONAL WORDS WILL BE ADDED AS THE TERM GOES ON. ALL TERMS HAVE BEEN IN OUR READINGS AND MANY IN OUR DISCUSSIONS. THEY CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN THE GLOSSARY AT THE BACK OF YOUR BOOK.
Literary Vocabulary for EN102
Words to Use when Talking and Writing about Literature
Antagonist
Apostrophe
Biographical Criticism
Character
Climax
Conclusion
Connotative Meaning
[Cultural Studies]
[Drama]
Dramatic Poetry
Denotative Meaning
Dialogue
Diction
Feminist Critique/Poetics
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Formalism
[Gender Criticism]
Explication
Exposition
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Imagery
Interior monologue
Literal meaning
Metaphor
[Meter]
Narrator
Innocent or Naïve narrator
Omniscient
Editorial omniscient vs. impartial omniscient
Limited
Total omniscience
Participant vs. observer
Point of view
Objective Narrator
Unreliable narrator
New Criticism
Paradox
Paraphrase
Plot
Point of View
Protagonist
[Psychoanalytic Criticism]
[Pun]
Rhyme or Rime
Scene
Setting
Short story
Simile
Sonnet
Story of initiation
Story of epiphany
Style
Symbol
Theme
Tone
Understatement
Word Order
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