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| New Critical analysis | a movement in American literature criticsism from the 1930s to 60s concentrating on the verbal complexities and ambiguities of short poems considered as self-sufficient objects without attention to their origins or effects |
| close reading | describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text |
| allusion | a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature |
| carpe diem | latin phrase from a poem by Horace that is translated as "seize the day" |
| concrete | in a metaphor, it is the inanimate object in which the abstract concept (love, friendship, etc.) takes the place of |
| dialect | literary technique in which the author uses voice to distinguish between characters; allows the writer to "show" the reader rather than "tell" |
| haiku | 5-7-5; form of Japanese poetry |
| imagery | the forming of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things; also the use of language to represent actions, persons, objects, and ideas descriptively |
| lyric | short poem with one speaker, expresses thought and feeling, expresses complex evolution of thoughts and feeling |
| satire | literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule |
| sarcasm | form of humor that uses sharp, cutting remarks or language intended to mock, wound, or subject to contempt or ridicule |
| simile | 2 things compared with like or as |
| topic | subject, theme, a category or general area of interest |
| theme | a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic |
| foil | a character that contrasts with another to highlight characteristics of the other |
| symbol | an object that stands for or points to a reality beyond itself |
| tone | the attitude toward the subject and audience |
| allegory | a figurative model that communicates its message through symbolism |
| assonance | repeating of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences |
| consonance | repetition of the final consonants of accented syllables or important words |
| hidden alliteration | sounds that do not look alike but have similar sounds |
| anticlimax | technique where words are arranged in order of increasing importance OR something which would appear difficult to solve is solved through something trivial |
| antithesis | a counter proposition denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition |
| apostrophe | a way of addressing someone or something invisible or not ordinarily spoken to |
| cesura | any pause within a line of poetry |
| end-stopped | when there is some form of punctuation at the end line of poetry |
| enjambment | the breaking of a syntactic unit by the end of a line or between two verses--contrasts with end-stopping |
| hyperbole | statements are exaggerated |
| litotes | a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite |
| metonymy | when the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it EX-the white houses decided; meaning that the president decided |
| synedoche | the use of a part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa EX-she lent me her hand; aka here entire presence |
| transferred epithet | the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words |
| pun | a play on words |
| personification | nonhuman things expressed/represented as human |
| EXPOSITION | PLOT #1 |
| COMPLICATION | PLOT #2 |
| CLIMAX | PLOT #3 |
| DENOUMENT | PLOT #4 |
