| A | B |
| Denoument | final outcome of main dramatic complication |
| hermeneutics | study of methodological principles of interpretation |
| phenomenology | study of human development and self awareness |
| dialogic/monologic | used to discuss different voices |
| dramatic irony | audience sees, but actors don't |
| discourse | learned discussion on philosophical political literary topic (Marxism) |
| heterglossia | variety of langues |
| bildungsroman | growth from childhood to maturity |
| ut picture poesis | from "ars poetica" poetry is discussed same as visual arts |
| roman a clef | novel with a key |
| new criticism | intentional fallacy/affective- close reading of poem |
| structuralism | saussere deriving identity from difference |
| intentional fallacy | text means what author wants it to mean |
| affective fallacy | texts meaning is determined by how it affects the reader |
| allusion | implied/indirect reference to something assumed to be know |
| encomium | speech in high praise |
| epic | extended narrative |
| hamartia | fatal flaw "Oedipus Rex" |
| In media res | in the middle of things, crucial point |
| irony | opposite of thought in speakers mind |
| metaphor | likeness |
| mimesis | imitation or realistic representation |
| prosody | general term for the structure of poetry |
| solecism | improper speech |
| symbolism | to achieve the affects of poem |
| ideal reader | person who understands everything the text says |
| implied reader | person who text is written for |
| actual reader | who actually reads it |
| horizon of expectation | "it was a dark and stormy night" thereby it will be sc arry |
| Aristotle | plato's student |
| didactic | that which teaches |
| horace | epic should be "in medias res" |
| Longinus | on the sublime |
| pragmatic/affective | audience orientated |
| dialectic method | dialogue to uncover what they know |
| decorum | appropriate behavior |
| relativism | multiple truths |
| personification | human attributes to non human things |
| apsotrophe | speaking to something that can't understand |
| rhetoric | study of the affect on the audience |
| indeterminacies | gaps in time |
| marxism | society decides class |
| bourgousie | ruling class |
| proletariat | lower working class |
| ISA | churches/schools |
| langue | grammar (rules) |
| parole | actual act |
| phenome/grapheme | sound/writtten |
| morpheme | grammatical markers |
| semantics | codes |
| hubristic | full of knowledge |
| paradigmatic | example |
| homology | study of sameness |
| rhetorical analysis | study of signs |
| simulacrum | image |
| RSA | military/police coercion |
| interpellation | call to the subject |
| diegesis | character and events that we create |
| semiotic | theory of signs |
| recit | when we say the words |
| exegesis | explanations of a text |
| new crit | study of the work |
| signifier | sound you hear or word you read |
| signified | thought in head |
| referent | real thing in world |
| histoire | real order of events |
| syntagmatic chain | linea chain of relationship |
| aesthetic theory | based on beauty |
| commodification | make object out of someone |
| ecriture feminine | writing as women really are |
| gynocentrism | woman's writing |
| formalism | formal elements |
| context | sociological, historical, social |
| contact | mode written/oral |
| receiver | study of signs |
| sender | author oriented |
| reader response | why we think; what u think |