Summary of Terms and Ideas
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Summary of Terms and Ideas
Style—music of words, voice
Conceit—sublime conception of the work
Form—genres, structures (for example, the sonnet)
Effect—impression on the reader’s sensibility and imagination
Omission—absences, gaps, breaks, vacancies, oblique references, missing information
Compression—condensed energies, packed images or statements, seeds in images and words, compact stories or moments that contain multitudes
Unreliable Narrators—those who struggle to tell the truth; those who obscure the truth; those who don’t know what’s going on; those who are lost in the story
First Person Narrative—an “I” who tells the story (see above)
Second Person Narrative—“You” , who may or may not tell the story
Third Person Narrative—an omniscient narrator tells the story; a seemingly detached observer tells the story
Narratives may mix all of the above
Revelation of Character—through 1. Dramatic Monologue/Soliloquys: a character speaking to him or herself
- Dialogue: characters speaking together
- Dramatic Action: events or moments reveal character by their actions
Two Kinds of Satire—1. Juvenalian (from the poet Juvenal): satire that is intended to awaken audiences to stupidity, greed, corruption, oppression, repression.
- Horatian (from the poet Horace): satire that is amused by human foibles; lighter than Juvenalian; usually distinguished by wit and aphorism.
Satire: etymologies—“satura” (Latin), meaning mixed bag, many forms and styles in one work; “satyr” (Greek), meaning a half-human, half mythic creature who dogs or bewilders or teases or taunts people.
Allusion—references to works, poems, titles, ideas, lines, symbols, stories, mythic, literary, religious or historical figures.
Intertextuality—a literary term that means one text intersects or crosses into another, or one text makes vivid reference to another work, or one work is made up of references to another work, or a work is dependent on knowing a classic work.
Ambiguity—a statement or phrase or image or dramatic event may mean many things at the same time, all of the meanings may be true; this helps to create an aura of suggestion. Ambiguities are seldom easy to clearly resolve. Meaning slips, slides.
Paradox—something may mean two contrary things at the same time, both appearing to be true.
All of the above creates depth in a literary work.
When you read attentively, receptively, these depths speak to your depths.