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UNIT 1
Literary Terms and Movements
Note-Taking DIRECTIONS
Take the lit. notes in your notebook
Set up the right page in Cornell/CAT Notes style
Left page is for creating a mnemonic device OR example for each term
Definition
• A movement in the late 18th century, which emphasizes emotion, imagination, intuition, freedom, personal experience, the beauty of nature, the exotic, and even the grotesque. The romantic movement rejects civilized corruption and projects a desire to return to a natural and primitive state away from an urban life.
Romanticism
Casper David Friedrich
Definition
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. A writer can be formal or informal, sarcastic or bitter or playful.
Tone
Definition
Mood is a feeling that is conveyed to the reader in a literary work. It is also the same as the atmosphere created in the literary piece.
The writer can develop mood through word choice, dialogue, sensory details, description, and plot complications.
Mood
Definition
The author’s choice of word.
Diction
Definition
Refers to the ordering and structuring of words in sentences.
It’s the difference between: I ate the pizza greedily.
AND Greedily, I ate the
pizza.
Syntax
Definition
Leaving out conjunctions in a sentence where they would normally be used.
Asyndeton
Definition
A rhetorical device used to accentuate or emphasize ideas or images by using grammatically similar constructions. Words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and even larger structural units may be consciously organized into parallel constructions, thereby creating a sense of balance.
By using parallelism, authors or speakers implicitly invite their readers to compare and contrast parallel elements.
Parallelism
Definition
The act or instance of placing two things close together or side by side. This is often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences, etc.
In literature, a juxtaposition occurs when two images that are otherwise not commonly brought together appear side by side or structurally close together, thereby forcing the reader to stop and reconsider the meaning of the text through the contrasting images, ideas, motifs, etc.
Juxtaposition
Definition
A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not. Ex: "A single death is a
tragedy, a million is a statistic." Joseph Stalin
Paradox
Definition
Ellipsis is a literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps.
Ellipsis
Definition
A figure in speech in which an attribute of something is used to stand for a greater group or idea. Ex: Using “brass” to
stand for “military”
Metonymy
Definition
A figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole. Ex: “sail” for “boat”
Synecdoche
Definition
A metaphor is a comparison, or analogy that states one thing is another. Ex: His eyes were
burning coals, or In the morning, the lake is covered in liquid gold.
Metaphor
Definition
An analogy is a comparison. Usually analogies involve two or more symbolic parts, and are employed to clarify an action or a relationship. Ex: Just as the mother eagle
shelters her young from the storm by spreading her great wing above their heads, so does the Acme Insurers of America spread an umbrella of coverage to protect its policy-holders from the storms of life.
Analogy
Definition
When an inanimate object takes on human shape. Ex: The darkness of
the forest became the figure of a beautiful, pale-skinned woman in night-black clothes.
Personification
Definition
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events
Allusion
Definition
In a tragedy, this is the weakness of character in an otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to his demise
Tragic Flaw
Definition
A person or thing that causes a change or sets something in motion
Catalyst