Friday, January 25, 2013

LIT TERMS 31-56 (Dialect to Free Verse)



  • Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others. 
 
Very interesting conversation (at lest to me as a writer)



  • Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.

  Another interesting vid, a dialectic of our increasingly grey modern times if you will.


  • Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.

 An example of biological dichotomy. The male peacocks has color in order to impress the bland female.


  • Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.

 

  • Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.

 "Didactic" transmitting tips on how to pass the AP exam. Not necessarily a bad thing all the time.

  • Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.

 

  • Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.



  • Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time (definition bordering on circumlocution).

ex. Beowulf

  • Epigram: witty aphorism.

 

  • Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.

 

  • Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that  may insult someone’s character, characteristics

 

  • Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.

 

  • Evocative (evocation): a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.



  • Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation.

 Prologue to HP. I've been on a Harry Potter kick as of late.


  • Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic   representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).


 The Scream by Edvard Munch, one of the most notable expressionistic paintings/works.


  • Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

 Slow and steady wins the race.


  • Fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

 

An example of a logical fallacy.
  •   Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

 
 Don't fall!


  • Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

I don't even know....


  • Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile).

 
 The pyramid of figurative language.


  • Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.


 Citizen Kane, the much lauded "greatest movie of all time" also makes great use of figurative devices.


  • Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

 

  • Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth.

 


  • Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.



  • Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.
 

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