Literary Terms: Difference between revisions

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* [[heroic ideal]]
* <i>[[hubris]]</i>
* <i>[[hubris]]</i>

Revision as of 22:19, 23 February 2006

Every discipline has its own technical vocabulary; the study of literature is no different. In order to discuss fiction in an intelligent and competent manner, a familiarity (or literacy) with this vocabulary is crucial. Define each of the following words calling from various sources — reference books, lectures, your own reading — making clear your own understanding of the vocabulary. Feel free to define or add your own terms.

Allegory to Bathos

Canon to Convention

Deconstruction to Diatribe

Epic Poetry to Exposition

Flashback to Freytag’s Formula

Genre to Lyric

Melodrama to Myth

Narration to Oration

Pace to Protagonist

Reader Response to Rising Action

Satire to Syntax

Text to Zeugma

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