Sunday, February 6, 2011

Notes: 1/24 - 2/4

Literary Terms   from that one sheet...
  • Anaphora - repetition. Repeating words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses. 
  • Antistrophe - repetition. Repeating the same words or words at the end of successive phrases/clauses/sentences. 
  • Anadiplosis - repetition. Repeating a word or phrase at then end of one clause and the beginning of the next. 
  • Diacope -repetition. Repeating words with a phrase or word in between. 
  • Epizeuxis - repetition. Repeating words in immediate succession. 
  • Polysyndeton - repetition. Repeating conjunctions in a series of  clauses. 
  • Alliteration - repetition. Repeating of initial sounds, usually consonants. 
  • Assonance - repetition. Repeating vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants. 
  • Consonance - repetition. Repeating of consonants or consonant patters. 
  • Antithesis - parallelism. Establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them in parallel structure. 
  • Anastrophe - inversion. a figure of speech involving the inversion of the ordinary Western order of words. 
  • Chiasmus - inversion. two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point - do not repeat the same words but inverts sentence's grammatical structure or idea. 
  • Antimetabole - inversion. the repetition of words in successive clauses but in transposed grammatical order. 
        Yah there's loads


Novel and Novella
  • Novella - a work of prose fiction that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. Your standard novella is prolly about 12,000-30,000 words. So Heart of Darkness..
  • Novel - Fiction. Lots of different styles of structure but must contain a narrative. And obviously they're longer than novellas.

Dante
  • Dante's Divine Comedy is written in terza rima. Dante travels through hell, purgatory to reach heaven. Vergil guides him through hell and purgatory but, being a pagan is not allowed into heaven. There are different circles for different types of sins. Purgatory consists of seven for the seven deadly sins. 
Heart of Darkness
  • We read and annotated it (to the best of our abilities....)
  • It's a frame narrative, allusion's to circles of hell, and we'll discuss more in class


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