Justin, Kris, and I finished our Prezi (finally). Check it out!
Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax
The heroes walked...and they walked some more...then suddenly, a battle!
Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact
Revolutionary idea: there's no gravity! Wait, no. We're not on Earth! Yes!
Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter
Since meter is a system of binary oppositions in which syllables are either marked or unmarked (long or short; stressed or unstressed), a binary code is all that is necessary to transcribe it... --T.V.F. Brogan
Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur
It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison
Joe was dull as a sponge.
Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage
O that this too too solid flesh would melt...
Spiritual: a folk song, usually religious theme
It was a song of the olden days, before the hustle and bustle of modern life.
Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking
Yours truly.
Stereotype: cliche, a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story
As a teenager, Joe hated authority.
Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them
As you can see, the theoretical representation of the author's--oh wow, a butterfly!
Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization
First will be the invitation. Then the journey. Then, the enlightenment. Finally, there will be revelation.
Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking
And then he was, like, yeah.
Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. --Albert Einstein
(This one's a little harder to spot. Note that the quote almost keeps the reader in suspense before revealing the important information. "Memory is deceptive because...")
Surrealism: a style of literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the non-rational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and banal
Tomatoes plummeted from the sky, and all Joe could say was "Man, water is soft."
Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it
After dodging the onslaught of snipers, he leaped over the atomic explosion and defused the bomb. Two tenths of a second remaining. Piece of cake.
Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own
*_-) ANALYZE THIS
Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense
The fruit tasted of summer days.
Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole
Bill was repulsed when confronted with the hand of the crime.
Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence
Note how the pluralized form of "relation" infers complexity in sentence structure.
Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s)
You can argue that "humanity" is a theme for pretty much every fictional work ever.
Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea
This is true because of that, that, and that.
Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view
A light drizzle frosted the windshield as mournful winds howled out of the dense mist.
Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; aka "dry" or "dead pan"
The best jokes are the ones that nobody laughs at.
Tragedy: in literature any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
Never fear, Joe will save the day! Except a series of contrived events inevitably leads him to captivity in a mental facility instead.
Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
I don't like you.
Vernacular: everyday speech
Hows-it goin'?
Voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey the writer's or speaker's persona
"He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano. He's so good, he's almost corny, in fact." --Holden Caulfield, from Catcher in the Rye
Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
Ridiculous hair styles and tie-dye shirts formed a neon mess in front of him. No, this certainly was not the 18th century.
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