EN 130 - Key Terms

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Fiction

  • Literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people

  • “Telling lies”

  • ex. Happy Autumn Fields, The Fly

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Plot

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work created and presented by the writer as a related sequence

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Protagonist

  • The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other text

  • ex. Mary is the protagonist in The Happy Autumn Fields because all of the events are told relative to her imagination/memory/experiences

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POV / Narration

  • Narration

    • Give a spoken or written account of

    • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person

    • Indirect discourse is a way of controlling the narrative (ex. A decision was made)

  • POV

    • From whose perspective the story is occurring

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Character

  • A person in a novel, play, or movie

  • Characterization

    • The creation of a fictional character

    • Can be done by diction/register/interaction with other characters

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Setting

  • The time and place in which a story is told

  • Ex. Happy Autumn Fields has two settings

    • The past history of Sarah’s family

    • Mary’s war-time present

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Atmosphere / Mood

  • The emotional quality of a story that is created through the writer’s use of language

  • Ex. The description of the warm red room in The Happy Autumn Fields conveys a different mood than the description of Mary’s bombed house

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Lyric poetry

  • Short

  • Expresses thoughts and feelings of one speaker

  • Has rhythm / beat

  • Fundamentally musical

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Narrative poetry

  • Tells a story

  • Long

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3 key elements of poetry

  • Thoughts and feelings intertwined in response to a specific experience

  • Diction

  • Connotation (suggesting) and denotation (saying)

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Form (poetry)

  • The physical structure of the poem

    • The length of the lines

    • Rhythms

    • System of rhymes and repetition

  • Features shaped into a pattern

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Sonnet

  • A poem of fourteen lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes

  • Ex. God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Couplet

  • A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length

  • Ex. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

    • Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, / Bright topaz denizens of a world of green

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Quatrain

  • A four-line stanza, often with various rhyme schemes

  • Ex. London by William Blake

    • I wander through each chartered street, / Near where the chartered Thames does flow. / And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

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Octave

An eight-line stanza or poem

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Sestet

A 6-line stanza

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Denotation

Actually outright saying

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Connotation

Suggesting something without explicitly saying it

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Theme

  • A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature

  • Ex. One theme present in Twelfth Night is the relationship between love and imagination

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Subject

  • Who the poem is about

  • Ex. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers is about Aunt Jennifer, although she is not the speaker

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Persona

  • Speaker

  • The person who is understood to be speaking or thinking in a particular work

  • Ex. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

    • Although the poem is about Aunt Jennifer, she not the speaker/persona

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Tone

  • The poet’s attitude towards the poem’s speaker, reader, or subject matter

  • Ex. Lazarus by Elizabeth Jennings

    • The tone is one of wonder or mystery

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Irony

  • Saying something in such a way as to suggest a discrepancy

  • Typically for humorus or empathic effect

  • Ex. My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke

    • Talking about abuse by painting it as dancing

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Diction

  • Word choice

  • Ex. The contrast between God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins and the de/composed version by W.D Snodgrass highlights the importance of word diction

    • The de/composed version is much less powerful/memorable because it simplifies word choice, thereby losing meaning

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Allusion

  • An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it expliccitly

  • An indirect or passing reference

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Sound

  • Sound devices / descriptions can be used as a way to create an emotional response in the reader

  • Ex. Use of sound in Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen convey mood and setting

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Metaphor

  • A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated

  • Without using the words “Like” or “As”

  • Ex. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

    • The whole poem is a metaphor for life choices

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Simile

  • A comparison using “like” or “as”

  • Ex. “As brave as a lion”

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Personification

  • Giving innanimite objects human-like characteristics

  • Ex. Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

    • “The monstrous anger of the guns”

    • Obviously guns can’t be angry, so this is personification

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Comedy

  • A play where the character’s circumstances at the beginning are quite bad, but are better at the end

  • Ex. Twelfth Night

    • Viola is sad at the beginning because she believes her twin brother has died in a shipwreck, but they are reunited at the end

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Tragedy

  • A play where the characters circumstances are great in the beginning but then are horrible at the end

  • Ex. Hamlet

    • Things start off pretty good but then basically everyone is dead at the end

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Soliloquy

  • A monolouge that is delivered when the character is alone

  • Ex. Act 2, scene 2 when Viola picks up the ring Olivia left

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Aside

  • When a character turns to the audience or one other character to make an observation or remark that the other characters can’t hear

  • Ex. Andrew and Toby making remarks when Malvolio reads his letter aloud

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Verse

  • Lines are written, spoken, and delivered in a more poetic/ rhythmic way

  • In Shakespeare, this can convey two things about a character

    • They are an aristocrat / educated

    • They are in love with another character (Antonio switching from prose to verse)

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Prose

  • “Regular speaking”

  • No rhythm or fanccy language

  • Typically for lower-class characters

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Register

  • The way a character speaks

  • Has to do with tone

  • In Shakespeare’s Tweflth Night, this can be seen when Antonio switches from prose to verse

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How is a soliloquy different from an aside?

In a soliloquy, the speaking character is alone on stage. But in an aside, the speaking character is not alone on stage

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